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I'm glad I'm able to do a little; it brings in a few dollars." "But what are you doing?" "Making hats. I did one for Miss Horsfield, and afterward some friends of hers sent me two or three more to trim. She said she'd try to get me work from one of the big stores."

Vane, as it happened, had met Kitty Blake by accident and had asked her to accompany him on a visit to Celia. Evelyn did not think she was of a jealous disposition, and jealousy appeared irrational in the case of a man whom she had dismissed as a suitor; but the thing undoubtedly rankled in her mind. While she was considering it, Jessy Horsfield entered the room.

By the way, the last time we were at Nairn's I happened to cross the room near where you and Miss Horsfield were sitting, and I heard her ask you to wait for something at Nanaimo or Comox. It struck me as curious." "She told me to wait so that she could send me word to come back, if it should be needful." "Ah!" ejaculated Carroll.

"I've had a chat with Horsfield," Carroll remarked. "Well?" "He may merely have meant to make himself agreeable, and he may have wished to extract information about you: If the latter was his object, he was not successful." "Ah! Nairn's straight, anyway, and to be relied on. I like him and his wife." "So do I, though they differ from some of the others. There's not much gilding on either of them."

"I should have imagined it," he laughed, in answer to her last remark; and he was right, for Jessy Horsfield was a clever woman who loved power and influence. Vane dropped his napkin, and was stooping to pick it up when an attendant handed it back to him. He noticed and responded to the glimmer of amusement in his companion's eyes.

Vane measures things by a different standard mine's perhaps more adapted to the market-place. But where have you left him?" "In the bush. Miss Horsfield will, no doubt, give you particulars; I've just told her the tale." "She called me up at the office and asked me to come across at once. Will you excuse us for a few minutes?"

"Wallace," he advised, "wouldn't it be wiser if you met that fellow Horsfield to some extent?" "No," Vane answered decidedly. "I have no intention of giving way an inch. It would only encourage the man to press me on another point, if I did. I'm going to have trouble with him, and it seems to me that the sooner it comes the better.

Jessy Horsfield was about his own age; tall and slight in figure, with regular features, a rather colorless face, and eyes of a cold, light blue. There was, however, something striking in her appearance, and Vane was gratified by her graciousness to him.

Though reticence was difficult, Vane made no comment. He had already spoken unguardedly, and he decided that caution would be desirable. As he started the team, an automobile came up, and he looked around as he drove on. "It's curious that I never heard the thing," he remarked. "I didn't, either," replied Evelyn. "I was too much engrossed in the trees. But I think Miss Horsfield was in it"

"If we gave the work out, it would be on an open tender," he declared. "There would be no reason why you shouldn't make a bid." Horsfield found it difficult to conceal his disgust. He had no desire to bid on an open tender, which would prevent his obtaining anything beyond the market price. "The question must stand over until I come back," Vane went on.

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