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Horsfal says differently." Rita glanced up at me and her eyes brightened with a ray of hope. "And Joe ain't got nothing to say about it?" "Not a particle. If he had had, I would not be here now. He would have sacked me on the spot." "Really and truly, he ain't?" she cried, with fresh anxiety. "Really and truly," I repeated. "Oh! goody, goody, " Poor little Rita; all sunshine and shower.
We spent the afternoon in the open air, inspecting the property, which was perfectly situated for scenic beauty, with plenty of cleared, fertile land near the shore and rich in giant timber behind. In the early part of the evening, after a cold lunch aboard the launch, we went back to the house and, for the first time, Mr. Horsfal inserted a key into the front door of the dwelling proper.
At last, we sped past a great looming rock, which stood almost sheer out of the sea, then we ran into a glorious bay, where the sea danced and glanced in a fairy ecstasy. "Golden Crescent Bay," broke in Mr. Horsfal. "How do you like it?" "It is Paradise," I exclaimed, in breathless admiration. And never have I had reason to change that first impression and opinion.
He is dunned, solicited and blackmailed; he is badgered and pestered until, I should fancy, he wished his millions were at the bottom of the deep, blue sea." "Lord, man!" exclaimed Mr. Horsfal, "but you have hit it right. One would almost think you had been through it yourself." "I have not," I answered, "but I know most of the diseases that attack the man of wealth."
"I was not aware which rooms you occupied and, when I received the telephone message to come here and saw those men waiting, I felt sure I had received an answer to my application for a position I saw in the papers this morning." Mr. Horsfal leaned back in his chair and surveyed me. "Well, no need to get crestfallen, George.
Monaghan, leaving me alone in the waiting room. At last my turn came and I was ushered into the "sanctum." I had put my head only inside the door, when the bluff voice I had learned that day to know shouted merrily: "Hello! George. What do you know? Come on in and sit down." And there was Mr. Horsfal, as large as life, sitting behind a desk with a pile of letters in front of him.
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