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He knew Miss Sackville was "as common as the rest of 'em and an old hand at the business, no doubt." But he simply could not abruptly break through the barrier; he must squirm through gradually. "That's a swell outfit you've got on," he began. "Yes," replied Susan with her usual candor. "Miss Hinkle borrowed it out of the stock for me to wear." Gideon was confused.
The next morning Mrs. Lander did not wish to go out, and she sent Clementina and Hinkle together as a proof that they were all on good terms again. She did not spare the girl this explanation in his presence, and when they were in the gondola he felt that he had to say, "I was afraid you might think I was rather meddlesome yesterday." "Oh, no," she answered. "I was glad you did."
He came back late in the afternoon, looking jaded and distraught. Hinkle, who looked neither, was with him. "Well," he began, "this is the greatest thing in my experience. Belsky's not only alive and well, but Mr. Gregory and I are both at large.
"Well, I think it would be safe to act on that supposition. Miss Clementina I think she wants to see you." "I'm going to her directly." Hinkle paused, rather daunted. "She wants me to go for the doctor." "She's always wanting the docta." Clementina lifted her eyes and looked very coldly at him. "If I were you I'd go up right away," he said, boldly.
"Have you got long white gloves?" asked Mary Hinkle, as they walked up Broadway, she carrying the dress and Susan the hat box. "Only a few pairs of short ones." "You must have long white gloves and a pair of white stockings." "I can't afford them." "Oh, Jeffries told me to ask you and to go to work and buy them if you hadn't." They stopped at Wanamaker's.
About dusk one evening I was sitting on the little gallery in front of the Hinkle parlor, waiting for Ileen to come, when I heard voices inside. She had come into the room with her father, and Old Man Hinkle began to talk to her. I had observed before that he was a shrewd man, and not unphilosophic.
Clementina explained how this part of the Hinkle theory had failed, and then Miss Milray devolved upon the belief that he had run his tailor's bill or his shoemaker's. "They are delightful, those Russians, but they're born insolvent. I don't believe he's drowned himself. How," she broke off to ask, in a burlesque whisper, "is-the-old-tabby?"
"Then you came to Far West in time to see Joseph and his brethren sold to the mobocrats by that devil's traitor, Hinkle, you saw the fleeing Saints forced to leave their all, hunted out of Missouri into Illinois their houses burned, the cattle stolen, their wives and daughters " "Don't, father! Be quiet again. You and mother must be fit for our journey, as fit as we younger folk."
Clementina wished that Hinkle would go away, but not before she had righted herself with him, and he lingered his month out, and seemed as little able to go as she to let him. She had often to be cheerful for both, when she found it too much to be cheerful for herself.
Ileen Hinkle! The spelling is correct, for I have seen her write it. Ileen was the daughter of the house, and the first Lady Cashier to invade the territory south of an east-and-west line drawn through Galveston and Del Rio. She sat on a high stool in a rough pine grand-stand or was it a temple? under the shelter at the door of the kitchen.
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