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Whenever he had stirred them by some excursion of this kind and began to ask questions in order to find out how far they had followed him, Keith's right hand was sure to shoot excitedly upwards in order to get him the coveted chance of answering.
After a moment's hesitation Nan accepted their aid and descended. Keith's performance was evidently considered a great joke. On the low veranda were two women, one most enormously fat, the other young and lithe.
How beautiful!" she exclaimed, as she swept across the room and knelt down before the desk for a better view. Leaning her arms on the desk, she looked into Keith's pictured face with hungry eyes. "Isn't he lovely?" she repeated. "Oh, he'll never look like that again! I know it! I know it!" she sobbed, remembering how white was the little face on the pillow that she had just left. Mr.
"I thought, perhaps, it was your widow," said the Doctor. A little dash of color stole into Keith's grave face, then flickered out. "No." He changed the subject, and went on to say that the other physicians had arranged to meet him at the house. Then he gave him a little history of the case. "You are very much interested in her?" "I have known her a long time, you see. Yes.
Keith's mind had been so far away that for a second it did not return. Then a light broke over his face. He seized the other's hand. "Norman Wentworth!" The greeting between the two was so cordial that men hurrying by turned to look back at the pleasant faces, and their own set countenances softened.
Keith's father, for instance, never grew tired of telling about the time when he was still the chief clerk in a fashionable grocery and the owner gave him permission to dispose freely of a keg of Holland oysters that threatened to "go bad" before they could be sold. Four or five friends were drummed together. The feast took place at night in the store itself.
He would not reach this country now until July which meant two more months of weary waiting for Keith and for Keith's friends at home. It was just here that Susan's patience snapped. "When you get yourself screwed up to stand jest so much, an' then they come along with jest a little more, somethin's got to break, I tell you. Well, I've broke."
Well, Rhodes has been down South and stayed at Keith's father's home. He says it's a beautiful old place, and now belongs to Mr. Wickersham, Ferdy's father, and the old gentleman, General Keith, who used to own it farms it for him. Think of that! It's as if father had to be a bookkeeper in the bank! Rhodes says he's a fine old fellow, and that Gordon is one of the best.
Keith was in the front shop and wished to see him. Mr. Keith, it appeared, had no time to spare. Isaac had, in fact, experienced a slight shock at the earliness of Keith's return. His first thought was that at the last moment there had been some serious hitch with Pilkington.
Her eyes were dancing now, and two dimples were flitting about her mouth. Keith's memory began to stir. She put her head on one side. "'Lois, if you'll kiss me I'll let you ride my horse," she said cajolingly. "Lois Huntington! It can't be!" exclaimed Keith, delighted. "You are just so high." Keith measured a height just above his left watch-pocket. "And you have long hair down your back."
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