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He chuckled at the memory. "What do I care about Landis?" said Donnegan with unutterable scorn. "It's the girl. You'll break her heart, Henry; and if you do I'll never forgive you." "Steady, lad. This is a good deal like a threat." "No, no, no! Not a threat, heaven knows!" "By heaven!" exclaimed Lord Nick. "I begin to be irritated to see you stick on a silly point like this. Listen to me, lad.
I think it should be told I mean if we found anyone cheating, it should be told. Then we would get together and tell that person why we are going to act toward them like we are going to act. That's only fair. That's the way they treat criminals in court." Then she retired to let Landis take her place. "The speaker has said in part what I had in mind.
It was like exposing both strength and weakness; and into such a trap it would have been a singularly hard-minded woman who might not have stepped. Nelly Lebrun leaned a little closer. She forgot to criticize. "It was bluff. I saw that Landis was big and good-looking. And what was I beside him? Nothing. I could only hope that he was hollow; yellow you see? So I tried the bluff. You know about it.
He added: "Also, what I say has to do with Lord Nick." "Ah," said the girl a little coldly. Donnegan went on. He had chosen frankness to be his role and he played it to the full. "It is a rather wonderful story," he went on. "You know that Lord Nick went up the hill for Landis? And The Corner was standing around waiting for him to bring the youngster down?" "Of course."
It was difficult on account of the snow to get the mails through. She must not be anxious if her accustomed letter did not arrive on time. As was her habit with home letters, Elizabeth read and re-read it. She was slipping it back into its envelope when Landis and Min appeared. Both were dressed for traveling.
He refused to understand; and she understood that, too; and she gazed critically upon Sylvia Landis as a very young mother might inspect a rival infant with whom her matchless offspring was coquetting. Then, without appearing to, she took Plank away from temptation; so skilfully that nobody except Siward understood that the young man had been incontinently removed.
Unconsciously, Elizabeth gave the article in Min's hand a second glance, and recognized it as the skirt Landis generally wore to class. Landis, whose eye was quick to note all that occurred in her presence, caught the second glance. "Isn't Min good?" she asked. "She is putting a new braid on my everyday skirt. I caught my heel in it yesterday and ripped the binding almost off.
He bowed his excuses to Nelly Lebrun, not without grace of manner, and then huddled Donnegan into a corner with a wave of his vast arm. "Now what do you want? Who are you? Who put that name in your mouth?" "She's in The Corner," said Donnegan, and he dwelt upon the face of Jack Landis with feverish suspense. A moment later a great weight had slipped from his heart.
Miss Wilson arose to the occasion, changing the subject with the question, "When is Miss Kronenberg going back?" "Not until Monday," replied Landis, who was rarely embarrassed. These two, with the assistance of Mame Welch and Carrie Hirsch, diverted the attention from Miss O'Day. "I do not German lessons take. Fraulein is not my instructor." "Well, she is mine," responded Mary Wilson with a sigh.
When Amanda, in an old dress of cool green, a wide-brimmed hat on her head, came in sight of the schoolhouse, she saw the Landis party approaching it from the other direction. She swung her tin pail in greeting. "Oh, there's Amanda!" the children shouted and ran to meet her, tin pails clanging and dust flying.
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