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Her instincts had not deceived her, for in the shadow of the fir trees, not more than two paces from her, was the figure of a man. Just then he took a step to the left, which brought his outline against the sky, and Ida's heart stood still, for now she knew him. It was Harold Quaritch, the man over whose loss she had been weeping.
When she saw her crimson face as the artist hastened to the phaeton, a sudden light had flashed into her eyes, and the thought crossed her mind: "Mr. Van Berg is the magician who is unwittingly practising upon her and making her so unlike her former self," and as she hurriedly recalled the past, she found there was much in Ida's manner not inconsistent with this theory.
Now where am I to get four thousand pounds to speculate with in that way, for it is a speculation, and one which I am too old to look after myself, even if I had the knowledge. Well, there you are, and now I'll say good-night, sir. It's getting chilly, and I have felt my chest for the last year or two. By-the-way, I suppose I shall see you to-morrow at this tennis party of Ida's.
Ida's rather precipitate withdrawal from the supper-room was another proof in their eyes that some mischief was brewing. He listened at her door for a moment, and could not fail to hear the stifled sound of her passionate grief; then knocked, but there was no response. "Ida," he said, in a kinder tone than usual, "I want to see you."
"I was hoping mother would have apple-pudding for dinner to-day, but she didn't." The next day passed, and still no tidings of Ida. There was a cloud of anxiety, even upon Mr. Crump's usually placid face, and he was more silent than usual at the evening meal. At night, after Rachel and Jack had both retired, he said, anxiously, "What do you think is the cause of Ida's prolonged absence, Mary?"
She introduced them, and was convinced that they glared at each other. And there ensued a time of some perplexity, but much enjoyment, on Ida's part. Mr.
"Then she has an aunt over here?" cried Betty eagerly. "So she thinks. An aunt for whom Ida was named. There was some family trouble, and Ida's father and her father's sister seem to have had nothing to do with each other for some years. The aunt is a singer quite a noted concert singer, it seems. Ida came to Washington expecting to find her. She did not find the elder Ida Bellethorne "
As my lawyer friend says, everybody's got to make a good living, and good livings can't be made on the ways that used to be called on the level they're called damfool ways now." Ida's third source of income was to her the most attractive because it had such a large gambling element in it.
In order not to attract attention they had adopted American dress during their stay in Ann Arbor; but their graduation dresses were sent from China, made in Chinese style, of beautiful Chinese silk, with slippers of the same material, Ida's blue, Mary's delicate pink.
I heard her tell Cora so," and Jack walked up and down in pretended self-admiration, while the others threatened to pick him up and toss him out into the cold moonlight, where they said he belonged in that particular state of lunacy. "Ida's ring," mused Jack, after he had calmed down. "Just plain Ida. Now if it had only been Bess, Belle or Hazel." "No, no!" protested Paul.
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