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Ike's first answer was a look. Then he said, very simply, "I've laid awake all night, ma'am, tryin' to get bold enough to come and ask ye." Draxy looked at her husband, and said in a low voice, "You know what I told you just now, Mr. Kinney?" The Elder saw that Draxy was on Ike's side. "Well, well, Ike," he said, "you shall certainly come and try it. Perhaps you won't like it as well as you think.
Your pal," he taunted, "has told every one on this boat that you are Lord Ivy, and he's told me lies enough about HIMSELF to prove HE'S an impostor, too!" I saw what had happened, and that if I were to protect poor Kinney I must not, as I felt inclined, use my fists, but my head. I laughed with apparent unconcern, and turned to the purser. "Oh, that's it, is it?" I cried.
"No wonder you don't want to tell THAT to the police!" From the bow came an exclamation, and Lady Moya rose to her feet. "Phil!" she said, "you bore me!" She picked her way across the thwart to where Kinney sat at the stroke oar. "My brother and I often row together," she said; "I will take your place." When she had seated herself we were so near that her eyes looked directly into mine.
But as Sprigley had said, that night had marked a change. It was true that so far as facts went he was no better off: when he had come to himself he had found his mind a blank regarding not only his career of crime, but all the years that had gone before. Even his own name eluded him. That of Kinney had an alien sound in his ears.
The evening of this second day found Struve still not accounted for. Although Miss Kinney had assured Neill that she was glad to be rid of him it occurred to her more than once in the course of the day that he was taking her a little too literally. On Sunday she did not see a glimpse of him after he left. At lunch he did not appear, nor was he in evidence at dinner.
But before she could follow up her point the door opened and the doctor returned with her husband. Kinney did not allow any tension to develop; instead, he said briskly: "There's only a couple of hours remaining between now and dinner time; I move we get busy." He glanced about the room, to see if all was in place.
So, to shut him off, I answered briefly: "She asked me about the Singer Building." "I see," said Kinney. "Well, these two men were just outside my window, and, while I was searching for my pipe, I heard the American speaking. He was very excited and angry. 'I tell you, he said, 'every boat and railroad station is watched. You won't be safe till we get away from New York.
Daniel Palmer, Edward Coy, Israel Kinney and Asa Perley were ruling elders of the church. Moses Pickard, Thomas Hartt and Hugh Quinton were leading church members. The gentlemen named, with Asa Kimball and Oliver Perley, were appointed a committee "to make immediate application to the Congress or General Assembly of Massachusetts Bay for relief under the present distressed circumstances."
'Twas a great picture, most of them agreed, admiring the gilt frame larger than any they had ever seen. Senator Kinney was the picture's champion and sponsor.
Kinney's name is Joseph Forbes Kinney; he dropped the Joseph because he said it did not appear often enough in the Social Register, and could be found only in the Old Testament, and he has asked me to call him Forbes. Having first known him as "Joe," I occasionally forget. "My name is NOT Joe," he said sternly, "and I have as much right to carry a second-hand bag as a new one.
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