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Of all the odd happenings! that she should be walking into Richard Kendrick's own habitation, with all the intimate revelations it was bound to make to her. She wondered what he would say if he knew. The first room was precisely what she might have expected, quite obviously the apartment of a modern young man whose wishes lacked no opportunity to satisfy themselves.
Under the lights here and there one stood out more clearly than the rest Louis's, flushed and virile; Rosamond's, lovely as a child's; old Mr. Kendrick's, intent and grave, forgetting to smile.
Matthew Kendrick's eyes rested fondly again upon Richard's smiling face. "You rascal!" he sighed. "You always did give me trouble about being up o' nights!" Richard Kendrick ran downstairs three steps at a bound. At the bottom he met Judge Calvin Gray. He seized the hand of his grandfather's old-time friend and wrung it.
"There's Stiles the one they're bringin' out now," whispered McCorquodale, pointing to a second prisoner who was being hustled out to witness the performance. His hands were tied behind his back and the man who had him in charge shoved him roughly to a sitting posture and pointed towards the post. Kendrick's face was tense at he watched. His eyes smouldered with cold fire.
Among these, Henderson was held to be so competent a man that Matthew Kendrick was considered incredibly lucky to keep his hold upon him. To Matthew Kendrick's grandson Henderson put a number of pertinent inquiries concerning the store in question which Richard found he could not intelligently answer. He flushed a little under the fire.
"Still," said Brother Brannum, as if acknowledging the arguments, "I think Sister Kendrick is jestified in her desires." "Oh, yes, oh, yes!" replied Brother Roach, heartily; "none more so. Felix Kendrick's ways is in good shape for some preacher wi' a glib tongue. Felix was a good man; he wanted his just dues, but not if to take them would hurt a man. He was neighbourly; who more so?
"Is it as cool as it looks?" he inquired, and placed his own cheek against it for an instant, regardless of the others present. Roberta laid her hand in Mr. Kendrick's, and the old man raised it to his lips, in a stately fashion he sometimes used. "That was very beautiful music you were making," he said. "It seems a pity to bring it to an end.
"Depends on what caused it, I should say," Carson answered cautiously. "If it was any kind of shock " "Oh it can't be that!" Richard Kendrick's voice showed his alarm at the thought. "Grandfather's been such an active old chap no superfluous fat he's not at all a high liver takes his cold plunge just as he always has. It can't be that! But I'm off to see. Good-bye, Carson.
After a time I gathered up my forces sufficiently to inquire, being quite thawed and comforted by the reviving heat of the apartment, how far it might be to the house of Dr. Pemberton, who resided in the block of houses known as Kendrick's Row, on Maple Street.
Phil Kendrick's experience with the opposite sex was very limited, he had to confess. He had been too completely absorbed in athletics to afford girls more than passing attention. Those of his social set those he had met had failed to impress him. One or two of them were attractive enough in a general way, he realized; some were amusing to him and some very very tedious.
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