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You see there's a wheel within a wheel here." "I should say there was!" "As near as I can judge, young Gaylord is Bessie's devoted slave until Mellicent arrives; then he has eyes only for HER, which piques Bessie and her mother not a little. They were together more or less all summer and I think Hattie thought the match was as good as made. Now, once in Hillerton, back he flies to Mellicent."
"Daughter says we should have wine; that everybody who is anybody has wine now champagne, and cigarettes for the ladies. Think of it in Hillerton! Still, I've heard the Gaylords do. I've never been there yet, though, of course, we shall be invited now. I'm crazy to see the inside of their house; but I don't believe it's MUCH handsomer than this. Do you? But there! You don't know, of course.
Hillerton used to sit behind the balustrade which divided his sanctum from the main office, and listen with an astute expression, and just the glimmer of a smile, to the talk of the incipient millionaires, who bragged with such ease and fluency of this or that Bonanza.
And in an incredibly short time she was ready to drive back in the grocery wagon. Later, when he went home, Mr. Smith found her there, presiding over one of the best suppers he had eaten since his arrival in Hillerton. She came every day after that, for a week, for Mrs.
"Really, my dear Ned, I'm disappointed in you. You don't seem to realize the possibilities of this thing." "Oh, yes, I do perhaps better than you, old man," retorted the other with an expressive glance. "Oh, come, Ned, listen! I've got three cousins in Hillerton. I never saw them, and they never saw me.
"Curious," thought the doctor during that carefully calculated pause which your experienced practitioner so well knows the value of. "Curious how fond folks get of James Hillerton. The fellow looks as though his own brother were at death's door." "I think there is nothing serious to apprehend," he answered soothingly. "Hillerton has a good constitution.
Cursing his own unimpeachable sense of duty, Peckham could see but one straw of hope to clutch at. It might be a light case. He went directly to the doctor's office, and with a feverish anxiety apparent in his voice and bearing, he asked how long Hillerton was likely to be laid up.
"Absurd!" scoffed Harriet. "There couldn't be any other Frank and Jim and Flora Blaisdell, in a Hillerton, too. Besides, Jim said over the telephone that that was one of the best law firms in Chicago. Don't you suppose they know what they're talking about? I'm sure, I think it's quite the expected thing that he should leave his money to his own people.
With so many hard feelings to cherish against his two immediate superiors namely, Hillerton and Fate it is no wonder that Peckham had the reputation of being of a morose disposition. He was perhaps the most solitary man in Springtown. Not only did he live in lodgings, and pick up his meals at cheap restaurants; he had wilfully denied himself the compensations which club life offers.
Oh, yes, I'll admit I still feel like the small boy at the keyhole, at times, perhaps; but I'll forget that when the children begin to dance. And, really, never have I seen a bunch of people whom I thought a little money would do more good to than the Blaisdells here in Hillerton. My only regret is that I didn't know about Miss Maggie Duff, so that she could have had some, too.
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