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"Why, he's worth two hundred thousand, if he's worth a cent!" "I know it, Kess." "The old man's stringing you, girl. His kind stop, look, and listen." "He's not stringing me! I tell you he's begging me to marry him and go back home with him. He's even told his daughter about me." "Good Lord little Effie! I was out there once when she was a kid. Stopped off on my way to Hot Springs.
Tell Kess he should come for Sunday dinner to-morrow." She was a white streak across the grass, her nervous feet flying. Almost instantly the honk of a horn came streaming back, faint, fainter. Left standing there, Goldstone was instantly solicitous of his wife, feeling along her arm up under the loose sleeve.
He won't even buy sleeveless models for his French room." "I tell you, Kess, he'll take me to Jersey to-morrow and marry me, if I give the word." "Not a chance!" "I tell you yes. That's why I got to see you. I got to tell him to-night, Kess. He goes back to-morrow." He regarded her slowly, watching her throat where it throbbed. "Well, what are you going to do?" "I I don't know."
"Say, I'm not going to stand in your light, if that's what's eating you. If you can get away with it, I don't wish you nothing but well. Looks to me like all right, if you want to make the try. I'll even come and break bread with you when I go out to see my Middle West trade pretty soon. That's the kind of a hairpin I am." "It's like I keep saying to myself, Kess.
Now this, you may imagine, was the most surprising event of all that eventful night. So quickly did it come upon us, so little did we look for it, that when Kess Denton, the yellow man, stood at the open gate and uttered a loud and piercing yell of defiance, not one among us could lilt a rifle, not one thought of plan or action. There the fellow was, laughing like a maniac.
He nodded his head and appeared to be thinking deeply. Old Clair-de-Lune was the next to utter a sensible thing. "The man flood the house," said he, "but no sure he get to ship. If he drown, Czerny know nothing. I say turn out the lamp wait!" "As true a word as the night has spoken," said I; "if Kess Denton does not reach the boats, they won't hear the story.
You've seen me come in, and it's your intention to prevent me going out again. To be caught like a rat in a trap won't serve Ruth Bellenden, and it won't serve me. I'm for the open, Kess Denton," said I, "and no long while about it, either."
"Now look here," he said, straightening up suddenly, "I don't know what your game is, but if you're here to stir up the old dust that's been laid for five years " "No, no, Kess! It's only that what I got to tell you I it makes a difference, I " "What?" "There's nothing in these years since, I swear to God, or in the years before, that I got to be ashamed of!" "All right! All right!"
It's the first thirty minutes of your time I've asked in five years, Kess is that little enough? Let Cissie show Keokuk the blouses till we get back. It's something, Kess, I can't put off. Kess, please!" Her face was so close to him and so eager that he turned to back out. "Wait for me at the Thirty-first Street entrance," he said, "and I'll shoot you across to Rinehardt's."
"And what?" "She just came home engaged!" "My God! Effie?" He blinked in the darkness, drawing up his knees to a hump under the sheet. "Engaged how?" "I.W., don't you remember? Wake up, honey. To Kess, to Leon Kessler that she went automobiling with." "Our Effie engaged to Leon Kessler?" "Yes, I.W. our little Effie!"
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