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"I want them kept on, but I don't want you to do it for that reason," she said. "Can't you grasp the distinction, Gregory?" A trace of darker colour crept into Hawtrey's face, but while she was a little astonished at this he looked at her steadily. He had not thought much about her during the last month, but now the faint scorn in her voice had stirred him.
Hawtrey read the reports with evident interest. All were in the same pessimistic strain, and he could not know that the money-lender had carefully selected them with a view to the effect he hoped to produce. Edmonds, who saw the interest in Hawtrey's eyes, leaned towards him confidentially when he spoke again. "I don't mind admitting that I'm taking a hand in a big bear operation," he said.
They drew nearer, and Agatha set her lips tight as she recognised them, for the light from a vestibule shone into Hawtrey's face as he half lifted Sally on to one of the platforms and sprang up after her. Then the bell tolled again, and the train slid slowly out of the station with its lights flashing upon the snow. Agatha turned away abruptly and walked a little apart from the rest.
There are complications; she is in debt, and the proprietor of Hawtrey's has threatened to discharge her and in order that the magnitude of the temptation may be most effectively realized the vision appears of Leila herself, wrapped in furs, stepping out of a limousine and into an elevator lifting her to an apartment containing silk curtains, a Canet bed, a French maid, and a Pomeranian.
It had been made for use in Montreal, and bought back East by a friend of Hawtrey's, who was possessed of some means, which is a somewhat unusual thing in the case of a Western wheat-grower. This man also had bought the team the fastest he could obtain and when the warmth came back to the horses Hawtrey and the girl became conscious of the exhilaration of the swift and easy motion.
Sally glanced up at him with a little nod. "You take hold with a good grip. Everybody allows that," she observed. "The trouble is you let things go afterwards. You don't stay with it." "Yes," assented Hawtrey. "I believe you have hit it, Sally. That's very much what's the matter with me." "Then," said the girl with quiet insistence, "won't you try?" A faint flush crept into Hawtrey's face.
Then they got him to bed, and Watson came back to the room where Sally was anxiously waiting. "Hawtrey's idea about his injuries is more or less correct, but we'll have no great trouble in pulling him round," he said. "The one point that's worrying me is the looking after him. One couldn't expect him to thrive upon slabs of burnt salt pork, and Sproatly's bread."
The westerner follows, forces his way through the portals, engages the villain, and vanquishes him. Leila becomes a Bride. We behold her, at the end, mistress of one of those magnificent stone mansions with grilled vestibules and negro butlers into whose sacred precincts we are occasionally, in the movies, somewhat breathlessly ushered a long way from Hawtrey's restaurant and a hall-bedroom.
"Plenty under the sod," said Sally, who was essentially practical. "That's where we get ours, but you have to put the breaker in and turn it over. You" and she flashed a swift glance at him "got most of yours from England. Won't they send you any more?" Hawtrey's eyes twinkled as he shook his head. "I'm afraid they won't," he said.
Hawtrey's face betrayed his dismay; and Edmonds believed that he would yield to a little further pressure. Gregory had not said anything about the mortgage to Sally, and it would be extremely unpleasant to be turned out upon the prairie within a month or two of his marriage, for he could not count upon being left in possession of the Range much longer.
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