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"Yes," he replied, as he settled himself more comfortably. "You have been very attentive to your father lately," she said a little suspiciously; "I thought filial affection was not the Leroys' strong point." "Nor is it," he said with a laugh; "but it is business, my dear Eveline, odious business, into which Jasper inveigles me." "I thought Mr.
A moment they all were still. Then the little breast of Alexina began to heave. The Leroys had never seen her this way. Sally Ann had, many times, and Nelly once or twice. She threw herself upon Charlotte. "I want to go, too; I want to go; I hate it there," with a motion of self toward the big, white house visible through the window. "I hate it, and I want to go too." They were all crying now.
All the forged bills were promptly burnt, and there remained only those real amounts that Adrien had signed, and which, all put together, only amounted to but a minute fraction of the supposed sums owing by the young man. Jessica was buried in Windleham churchyard; the funeral was attended by all the Leroys, as well as by many of the countryfolk, for her sad little story had become known.
"Then you knew the boat was bought in for me?" "Why, yes; I did." "Did the Leroys know it?" "Why, naturally, I should suppose so." That was all that Alexina wanted to know, yet not all, either. Her colour rose a little. It made her pretty. "Do you know anything of the Leroys since?" "Not a word," said Mrs. Carringford. "What do you hear from Miss Harriet and Major Rathbone?" "They are still East.
"It's for the Orbisons' I need a dress," said Emily. "Of course, I know it's because I have a voice I'm asked." Yet, knowing that for herself she never would have been asked, there was exultation in Emily's tone. Alexina got up suddenly. Somehow she didn't want to discuss the Leroys with Emily after all.
And Alexina had come, too, buoyed up by a large and epic idea of restitution. How foolish, how young, how almost insulting from the Leroys' standpoint it suddenly seemed. "We spent two winters in Italy, Jean and I, and one in Algiers," Molly was saying plaintively. "Heavens, Malise, they're building that house on stilts, right over a sinkhole of tin cans."
Ada Lester was also present; she paid her last visit to the neighbourhood of Barminster on that day, and, with a tact most unusual to her, refrained from attracting any attention so far as the Leroys were concerned. Well placed now in money matters, and proprietress of the Casket Theatre, she settled down to learn the art of acting as well as dancing, and eventually married her business manager.
"What creed?" demanded Alexina. "Mr. Jonas's." "Oh," said Alexina, "yes, I see." Molly, Alexina and Celeste stayed a week at Nancy with the Leroys. It was a household wherein there was no strain, no tension, though, to be sure, there was small management.
Great was the sensation when all the facts came out into the full light, and it was known that Adrien had been saved by the traitor's own daughter, who had given her life that his might be spared. Mr. Harker was well rewarded for the part he had taken in exposing Jasper Vermont, and preserving the Leroys from the pitfalls and ruin he had dug for them.
Down-stairs she stopped again in the spotless, shining kitchen, the clean odour where soft-soap is used always lingering. Alexina liked it; all her knowledge of the dear homely details of life she was familiar with, she had gotten here. "You remember the Leroys?" she asked Mrs. Carringford. "Why, yes; I sent them milk twice a day." "Did you know why they went away?"
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