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"Ah, then, when it does come off, madam, I hope " But Miss Linderham hung up the receiver, and did not listen to the recommendations the man was sending over the wire about his hired guests.
I came, knowing that if Heckle saw me he would carry out his threat. He has carried it out, and I have had the pleasure of knocking him down." Miss Linderham sank upon the seat, and once more motioned with her fan for him to take the place beside her. "Then you receive five guineas a night for appearing at the different places where I have met you?"
The young man sat silent for a few moments and did not look at his companion. When he spoke there was a shade of resentment in his voice. "I thought you saw, Miss Linderham, that I was not very proud of my present occupation." "No, but, as you said, a man will do anything for money." "I beg your pardon for again contradicting you, but I never said anything of the sort."
They sauntered along one of the walks until they reached a seat far from the house. The music floated out to them through the open windows, faint in the distance. Miss Linderham sat down and motioned Lord Stansford to sit beside her. "Now," she said, turning her handsome face full upon him, "why have you avoided me all the evening?" "I haven't avoided you," he said.
The chances are that Maggie Linderham would have cried had it not been that her hair was so nicely, yet carelessly, done; but before she had time to make up her mind what to do, the trim little maid came along the gallery and down the steps into the studio, with a silver salver in her hand, and on it a card, which she handed to Miss Linderham, who picked up the card and read, "Richard Stansford."
Next day, at a large studio in Kensington, none of the friends who had met Miss Linderham at the ball the evening before would have recognised the girl; not but what she was as pretty as ever, perhaps a little prettier, with her long white pinafore and her pretty fingers discoloured by the crayons she was using.
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