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But Kelson's appearance, no less than his marvellous knowledge of her life, and character dumbfounded her she was simply paralysed into admission; and before he left her, Kelson had added another thousand dollars to his hoard. That evening, close to the Academy of Science in Market Street, he saw a lady get out of a taxi and quickly enter a pawnbroker's. Her whole life at once rose up before him.
I said I would take your advice about it, Hugh, and she agreed." "Does it concern the affair at Wynford?" "It may," Kelson answered in a perplexed tone; "and yet I don't well see how it can. Anyhow it is uncommonly mysterious. We won't talk about it here," he added gravely, "but wait till we get in."
I knew most of the girls who were at the dance, and the idea of a tragedy with any one of them seems inconceivable." "One would think so," Gifford responded. "And yet " "You think it possible?" Kelson demanded incredulously. "Possible, if far from probable," the other answered with conviction.
Several uniformed officials now invaded the box, but Hamar who, as well as Kelson, was with Curtis fixing them with his big dark eyes that gleamed eerily in the half-lowered lights of the house for the stage only at that moment was fully illuminated held them in check, and they hung back not knowing what to do.
Leave the path of virtue, and give way to self-indulgence and a craving for everlasting change and excitement, and a miserable ending will be your mead and has been the mead of all others who have done the same thing." "Then the dream is a warning?" Kelson was about to reply, when the door opened, and Hamar, with an apology for intruding, beckoned to him.
I learned the value of water at that time, but I have always held to the opinion that a little good rum mixed with it adds greatly to its taste," and Jerry winked at my uncle with one eye, and with the other looked at his tumbler, which was empty. Uncle Kelson mixed him another glass.
Kelson laughed. "If you ask me I don't think she cares a bit for him. And one can scarcely be surprised. He is not a bad fellow, but rather a prig, and Edith Morriston is not exactly the sort of girl to suffer that type of man gladly.
"I don't know," Kelson replied, as though the idea was quite novel to him. "Never got so far as to think of that. I like a girl with whom you can get on without going through the process of thawing her first. And with Edith Morriston I should say it would be a slow process. Anyhow, she is just the girl for Painswick, who is evidently after her."
"Good," Henshaw responded with what seemed a half-smothered yawn. "Regret for a thing that is gone past recall does not pay; though as long as there is a chance of getting it I believe in never calling oneself beaten. Here we are at the Lion." "What do you think of our acquaintance?" Gifford said as they settled down in the private room of Kelson, who made the Golden Lion his hunting quarters.
'Well, says the doctor, 'let's bargain. We bargained, him and I, and here we are: stores, brandy, block house, the firewood you was thoughtful enough to cut, and in a manner of speaking, the whole blessed boat, from cross-trees to kelson. As for them, they've tramped; I don't know where's they are." He drew again quietly at his pipe.
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