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It was not until Kenny's servant lifted his voice in praise of his own deeds at Phineas Striker's that she became acutely aware of the close proximity of the speakers. Gradually she surrendered to the spirits of mirth and mischief. The result of her awesome moan, even though it narrowly escaped ending in a shriek of laughter, has already been revealed.
His sympathetic brogue, smooth and soft and instinct with drollery, held for her a never-ending fascination. And always at the end of the day there was Kenny's Gray Man of the Twilight stealing up the river all too soon. Joan was not the only one to whom the sparkle of the irrepressible Irishman's wit and humor was an energizing boon.
And tell the operator to put me through to his private wire. It's urgent. I do not want the nurse in the anteroom. When you ring for me I want Dr. Barrington ready at the other end and I want you yourself, Pietro, to be sure he's there." Pietro, obeyed, amazed and loyal. "Frank?" Hot relief surged in Kenny's heart at the chance ease of connection. "Kenny speaking." "Hello, Kenny.
"I'll wire her in the morning," he said and, hanging up, found that Sidney Fahr had come in. He stood with his back against the door, his round face blank with terror. "Kenny," he stammered, "I I couldn't help hearing." The hot sympathy he could not bring himself to utter, flamed desperately in his face almost to the ruin of Kenny's iron control. "I I I can do something, can't I, Kenny?"
The night-watchman at the Holbein Club greeted the prodigal with a broad smile of welcome. "Wonder, I says, to the new bell-hop, I do wonder where Mr. O'Neill's got to. Everybody's been wonderin'. Mr. Rittenhouse most of all," he added, stopping the elevator at Kenny's floor. "I heard him grumblin' just last night in the elevator to Mr. Fahr. Mr.
Branch after branch the climber touched with unerring instinct and ran off noiselessly through the orchard to the south. Kenny's heart throbbed with a ghastly fear. It was Joan. He knew what lay to the south beyond the orchard: woodlands and wildness, nothing else. The fields Hughie cultivated stretched to the north from the kitchen windows.
He accepted everything that Kenny said with a corroborative, birdlike nod of politeness. With the megaphone upon the floor by Kenny's chair, he made no further pretense of deafness. He said nothing at all and Kenny found his new inscrutable trick of silence unendurable. One singular fact loomed out above all others. Adam shamelessly accepted the word miser with a gloating chuckle.
Kenny's time values had not altered. Garry came at once in bathrobe and slippers. "Lord, Kenny," he exclaimed warmly, "I'm glad you're back and sane. But I'm mad as a wet hen!" "At me? My dear Garry!" "You didn't write, you know, after you said you would. You never do " "I telegraphed instead." "Your telegram," reminded Garry, "said 'O.K. Kenny. And I'm chuck full of curiosity and questions.
By the Lord Harry, Brian, it's damnable and indecent to harp so upon the shotgun after smashing the statuette." The circle was complete. They were back to Kenny's grievance. Brian sighed. "I wasn't thinking of the shotgun," he said. "There have been times, Kenny, when I hadn't a collar left " "He's right," put in Garry with quick sympathy. "It's not just the shotgun "
Viola, in relating the story of the morning's events, was careful to avoid using the harshest of Barry's terms, but earnestly embellished the account of Kenny's interference with some rather formidable expressions of her own, putting them glibly into the mouth of her champion. Once her mother interrupted her to inquire: "Did Kenneth actually use those words, Viola?
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