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Updated: June 2, 2025
"I cal'late he was lookin' for you, though he didn't just up an' say so. Seemed worried like for fear't you wouldn't have a good opinion of him." "Mercy! what has he done?" cried the girl laughing, for even the sound of Lawford's name made her glad. "Seems it's what he ain't done.
The girl smiled upon him proudly and the Taffy King, seeing the expression on her face, suddenly seized the missive from her hand. "I give up! I give up!" he exclaimed. "I said I'd disown him if he refused to marry Dorothy Johnson, my partner's daughter. But 'tain't really Lawford's fault, I s'pose, if Dot won't marry him.
"Now you will see us grinding them out, Miss Grayling," the actor said. Louise broke into a series of questions regarding the taking of the pictures. Her evident interest in the big leading man halted Lawford's approach. Besides, Miss Louder, who had evidently been introduced to the Taffy King's son, attached herself to him.
My name is Herbert Herbert Herbert to be precise. Lawford took out his pocket-book and a card. 'Mine, he said, handing it gravely to his companion. 'is Lawford at least... It was really the first time that either had seen the other's face at close quarters and clear-lit; and on Lawford's a moon almost at the full shone dazzlingly.
Shading it in his hand from the night air straying through the open window, Herbert lit the two candles that stood upon the little chimneypiece behind Lawford's head. Then sauntering over to the window again, almost as if with an affectation of nonchalance, he drew one of the shutters, and sat down.
'We are on quaky ground; and it's absolutely essential that you keep cool, and trust. I am yours, heart and soul you know that. I own frankly, at first I was shaken. And I have, I confess, been very cunning. But first, faith, then evidence to bolster it up. The faith was absolute' he placed one firm hand on Lawford's knee 'why, I cannot explain; but it was. The evidence is convincing.
His lips moved as if he were talking to himself. And again it was Lawford's faltering voice that broke the silence. 'You see, he said, 'I have never... no fit, or anything of that kind before. I remember on Tuesday... oh yes, quite well. I did feel seedy, very. And we talked, didn't we? Harvest Festival, Mrs Wine's flowers, the new offertory-bags, and all that.
But it was Lawford who brought in Professor Grayling. Louise had watched with the Taffy King all through the battle of the lifeboat with the sea, suffering pangs of terror for Lawford's safety, yet feeling, too, unbounded pride in his achievement. Now she pressed down to meet him at the edge of the sea and found that the drenched, dazed man Lawford bore up in his arms was her own father!
She supposed this child in the car was the daughter of Lawford's employer. But whoever before heard a fisherman speak just as he did? Had Cap'n Abe been at home she certainly would have tapped that fount of local knowledge for information regarding Lawford. He did not look so much the fisherman type without his jersey and high boots. "How do you like the old fellow up at the store?"
In thirty seconds she had him by the hair, and then beat her way to the surface with her burden. Lawford's face was dead white; his eyes open and staring. There was a cut upon the side of his head from which blood and water dribbled upon her shoulder as she held him high out of the sea. There sounded the clash of oars in her ears.
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