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She stood up in the tonneau, holding to the back of the seat in front of her to steady herself against the swaying of the car. Just then Larry blew a blast on the horn. As the deep tone responded to his pressure on the big rubber bulb the men in the green machine looked back. At the sight of one of the faces Grace cried. "It's father! It's father!"
I wouldn't have bothered to have come here at all except for something you let drop about the pals he might have been working with these last few months." "That's exactly it," she caught him up. "I never thought that you'd catch Larry Brainard here. How could I, when, if you know me as you say, you also know that he and I are in different camps are fighting each other?
There was a hitch somewhere; McGaffey muttered naughty words under his breath and plied wrenches and screwdrivers in a way that brought a thrill of anxiety, approaching fear, to every heart. The press started half a dozen times, only to be shut down abruptly before it had printed a single impression. McGaffey counseled with Larry, who shook his head.
Larry's voice shouted: "Christian! Cousin Isabel! Anyone !" There was urgency and alarm in the voice. Lady Isabel and Christian were in the hall in an instant, and met Larry at the foot of the stairs. "Cousin Dick's ill! A heart attack, I think I didn't know what to do for him " "I do!" said Christian, speeding upstairs. Her mother followed her, and Larry remained in the hall.
"It was Father Nugent's suggestion to give up smoking," he said, unable to eliminate from his voice a touch of pride, "I knocked off whiskies and sodas, too but that was off my own bat." "'Smite them by the merit of the Lenten Fast!" murmured Christian. Unlike Larry, she evaded personalities and especially those that involved a discussion of religion.
A dozen cadets were willing, including Dick, Larry, and Fred Garrison. As it was off time, Larry, even though major, did not feel it necessary to "stand on his dignity." "I'm just going to be as I've always been," he told the others. "If I can't be that, I don't want to be major." Several tents had been erected close to the water's edge, where the cadets might undress and don their bathing suits.
But already Larry had taken his leave, and she could see him as he flitted across the bog to catch her by some short cut. That strange contradiction by which a woman can journey alone and in safety through the midst of a country only short of open insurrection, filled her mind as she went, and thinking of it in every shape and fashion occupied her for miles of the way.
Larry thought he could best deal with Retto alone, but he did not want to tell Grace so. However, her mother got him out of what might have been an embarrassing position. "I'd rather you wouldn't go, Grace," she said. "There is no telling what sort of a person this Retto is. His name sounds foreign."
Larry was at first delighted with the thought that some day he should have a boat of his own, and a boat, too, larger than any on the shore; but when I accompanied my father, Larry insisted on going with me. "'It will be time enough to buy a boat, when the war is over, he said.
On Hans' account, Larry and Tom kept up a lively chatter during the evening, and it was not until the brothers were in their berths that they broached the subject of what to do should the sheriff's suspicions prove true.
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