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Her eyes were sparkling, and her lips parted with a smile of pleased surprise. "How do you do?" She came forward with outstretched arm and a cordial greeting. Mrs. Yorke could not repress a mother's pride at seeing the impression that her daughter's appearance had made. The expression on Keith's face, however, decided her that she would hazard no more such meetings.
I went South to look into some matters there," he explained to the ladies. The speech brought a gratified look into Keith's eyes. Mrs. Yorke was divided between her feeling of relief that Mr. Lancaster should know of Keith's social standing and her fear that such praise might affect Alice. After a glance at the girl's face the latter predominated. "Men have no sense at all," she said to herself.
They leaned over to hear, and every moment or so they burst into shrieks of laughter. Judge Terry was listening intently to some serious communication Belle herself was making to him. Sam Brannan was roaring for champagne. The others were circulating here and there, talking, playing practical jokes. Altogether, to Keith's rosy vision, a colourful and delightful scene.
Keith's hand was on the butt of his revolver as he made his way through the black night. He could not see the gravel path under his feet but could only feel it. Something that was more than a guess made him feel that Shan Tung was not far away, and he wondered if it was a premonition, and what it meant. With the keen instinct of a hound he was scenting for a personal danger.
"I reckon yer know, Jack, as how I ginerally git what I goes after," said the slow, drawling voice, "an' that I draw 'bout as quick as any o' the boys. They tell me yo're a gun-fighter, but it won't do ye no good ter make a play yere, fer one o' us is sure to git yer do yer sabe?" "Get me?" Keith's voice and face expressed astonishment, but not a muscle of his body moved.
Wentworth to herself, as she scanned anew Keith's strong features and sinewy frame. "Alice said if a woman had ever seen him, she would not be likely to forget him, and I think she was right." "Why do you ask me?" inquired Keith, who had now quite recovered from his little confusion. "Of course, you know her?" "Yes, very well. We were at school together. She is my best friend, almost."
While still in her early twenties, Keith's mother had spent two years with an English family living in Sweden. She always described her position as that of "lady companion" to the mistress of the house. As a little boy, Keith did not know enough to ask any embarrassing questions.
He had a genial vision of the hour of Keith's humiliation and return, a vivid image of Keith crawling back on that empty belly. At that moment Keith smiled, a smile that had in it all the sweetness of his youth. It softened his father's mood, though it could not change it. "I'm afraid I can't afford to pay your price, my boy." He was the first to turn away.
There was not, nor could there be in Keith's mind any harm in their relations. Nan was the woman for him; but that didn't mean that he was never to see anybody else, or that other women might not of course in unessential and superficial ways answer some of his varied needs. Mrs. Morrell was skilful at keeping up his interest, and she was equally skilful in gradually excluding Nan.
He could not have chosen his moment better; he had come at a crisis in Keith's life. He knew the boy's nature; after all, he would be brought back to him by hunger, the invincible, implacable hunger of the flesh. "Your mother was pretty. But she lost her looks before I could marry her. I had to wait for her; so I know what you're going through.
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