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Their faces as girls are clear enough. But later in life most of them drifted out of sight many, alas, are dead; and, well, at last I narrowed my man down to one. And who now, do you suppose that was? Lawford sustained an expression of abysmal mystification. 'Do tell me who? 'Your own poor dear mother, Mr Lawford. 'HE said so? 'No, no, said the old lady, with some vexation, closing her eyes.
"I should say not!" ejaculated Lawford. "Do you know, he's an awfully er romantic looking old fellow. Looks just as though he had stepped out of an old print" "The frontispiece of a book about buccaneers, for instance?" she suggested gleefully. "Well," and he smiled down upon her from his superior height, "I wasn't sure you would see it that way."
But Lawford did not appear at the store on the Shell Road. Mr. Bane came frequently to call. He was an eager listener to Cap'n Amazon's stories and evidently enjoyed the master mariner hugely.
He saw an expression dismay, incredulity, overwhelming astonishment start suddenly into the dark, rather indifferent eyes. 'What is it? he cried, hastily stooping close. 'Why, said the other, laughing and turning away, 'I think the moon must have bewitched me too. Lawford listened awhile before opening his door. He heard voices in the dining-room.
And even she, if my intuition is worth a penny piece, even she when you go soon and talk to her will own that she did know you, and that it was not because you were a stranger that she was offended, but because you so ungenerously pretended to be one. That was a little mad, now, if you like! 'Oh yes, said Lawford, 'I am going to ask her forgiveness.
"Isn't he a wonder?" murmured Lawford, as Louise accompanied him to the gate and watched him start the automobile engine. "I never heard such a fellow in my life. And good as gold!" Louise had made up her mind to be distinctly casual with the young man hereafter; but his hearty praise of her uncle warmed her manner toward him. Besides, she had to confess in secret that Lawford was most likable.
"At least," Marian pursued, "you might carry on your flirtation in a less public manner." "'Flirtation!" ejaculated Lawford, with a spark of anger and then settled back on the couch with a groan. "My goodness me, Ford!" gasped Prue. "You're surely not in earnest?" "I should hope not," drawled Marian. "Oh, Ford, my boy " "Now, mother, don't turn on the sprinkler again," advised L'Enfant Terrible.
Very likely, however, they had been given him, second-hand, by some member of the family for which he worked. The more she saw of him, and the more she thought about it, the greater was Louise's disappointment in Lawford Tapp.
I positively put posers to him; but his memory was perfect in spite of the shock which would have killed a a more sensitive nature. She had risen, it seemed, and was moving with all her splendid impressiveness of silk and presence across the general line of vision. But the hall was dark and still; her eyes were dimmed with light. Lawford could survey her there unmoved.
It could not be possible that Lawford Tapp had descried and recognized the figure of the girl from the Tapp anchorage! He no longer wore his hip boots. After shutting off his engine, he guided the sharp prow of the launch right up into the sand and leaped into shallow water, bringing ashore the bight of the painter to throw over a stub sunk above high-water mark. "Good-morning!
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