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"Was!" cried the captain sharply. "What do you mean? "The schooner got him, sir. You don't make no doubt of that, do you, sir?" The man spoke in a hushed voice, with a shrinking glance back of him. "Will you go aboard under Mr. Ives?" "Anywhere my officer goes I'll go, and gladly, sir." Ives was sent aboard in charge.
On the roof, in these warm, heavy summer nights, with her hands locked in his, he had been able to explain all his misty ideas about an unborn art the world was waiting for; had been able to explain them better than he had ever done to himself. And she had looked away to the chattels of this uptown studio and coveted them for him! To her he was only an unsuccessful Burton Ives.
Ives pay him the three thousand guineas. The curses which Mac Fane continually coupled with my name, and the rancour, the thirst of blood which preyed upon him, were incredible. He a hundred times imprecated eternal damnation to his soul if there were the least danger. Clifton would in reality be an accessary before the fact, and therefore obliged to silence. Beside 'He would do him!
And when you grew up you were just the same. We've often talked about your peculiar ways." "I suppose I am an incorrigible," said Ives. "I am opposed to the doctrine of predestination, to the rule of three, gravitation, taxation, and everything of the kind. Life has always seemed to me something like a serial story would be if they printed above each instalment a synopsis of succeeding chapters."
She paused, and when the first shock of amazement was past an audible titter ran through the audience, and Mr. Ives squirmed visibly. "Am I right, Mr. Chairman?" asked Miss Lucretia. "You are unquestionably right, Miss Penniman," answered the chairman, rising, "unquestionably." "Then I will proceed," said Miss Lucretia.
Ives, you must do me the honour to consider me as the head of our family, and suffer me to remind you of the respect and obedience which are due to that head. The proposal now made you I approve. It is made by a man of family, and I must take the liberty to lay my injunctions upon you to listen to it in a decorous and proper manner.
I only meant to tell you to show you what had influenced my mind; and that, in short, the thing was impossible. One thing you may be sure of: I shall do nothing against you. Will you shake hands before I go away?" he blurted out. "Yes," said I, "I agree with you the interview has been irritating. Let bygones be bygones. Good-bye, Ronald." "Good-bye, St. Ives!" he returned. "I'm heartily sorry."
"Certainly not!" I said firmly, ignoring a nudge from the policeman. "He left before you came there was ample time. It is not of the least consequence, anyhow. Again I beg your pardon." As she inclined her head, I bowed, and closed the door. "I trust Mr. Bayne, that you are satisfied at last." This was the St. Ives manager, and I did not like his tone.
Johnston made several trips far up the river with the Jesup and with a newer steamer, the Colorado. He is understood to have gone even farther than Lieut. J. C. Ives, of the Topographical Corps, in the little steamer Explorer. This stern-wheeler made the trip in January, 1858, and was passed by Johnston on his way downstream.
"Well, there was some kind of an old scandal, you know." "Was there?" Banneker's voice was negligent. "That would be hard to believe." "Hard to get hold of in any detail. I've dug some of it out through my Searchlight connection. Very useful line, that." Ives ventured a direct look at Banneker, but diverted it from the cold stare it encountered.
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