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He found the name, Hallam, very easily Thomas B. Hallam, lawyer, junior in the firm of Spencer, Boyd & Hallam. They were attorneys for Jack Ruthven; he knew that. Mallison he also found Dr. James Mallison, who, it appeared, conducted some sort of private asylum on Long Island. And when he had found what he wanted, he went to the telephone and rang up Mr.
"If you ever hear of these rascals let me know," continued the hotel proprietor. "I will do so," was the reply. With that the conversation on the subject closed. Maurice Vane remained at the hotel overnight and left by the early train on the following morning. "Joe, our season ends next Saturday." "I know it, Mr. Mallison." "We are going to close the house on Tuesday.
She was ironic, she was hard, and she must make the best of it. But it was in a gentle voice that, looking at her friend's melancholy head, she asked: 'Who told you that? 'Mrs. Mallison, said Althea. 'I've been a hypocrite to you all the morning. 'And I have been an odious prig to you. That ass of a Kitty Mallison.
The amount had been reduced, first to three hundred, then to two hundred dollars, and finally she secured the latter sum and I returned to her almost a wreck mentally and physically. Among the people I had told my wife to apply to was Mr. Mallison, who, it will be remembered, was the man to whom I sold the Wood and Slater interests in certain properties.
Don't tell Helen what I've told you, Mrs. Mallison with gentle gaiety warned her. 'I knew in case you hadn't heard that it would relieve you so intensely to hear that she and Gerald were happy, in spite of what you had to do to them. But it would make Helen cross with me if she knew I'd told you when she hadn't. I'm rather afraid of Helen, aren't you?
If we can get him into a sound sleep of some hours he may wake with a decided turn for the better the delirium subjugated; but in his low state, even sleep may be fatal there is so little vital power. Yes, I should certainly telegraph for Dr. Mallison; and in the meantime I'll try what can be done with chloral. 'You must do the utmost you can. Mrs. Wendover has implicit faith in you.
He thought it best to get back to the hotel at once, and tell Mr. Mallison of his suspicions. But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip. "Where is Mr. Mallison?" he asked of the clerk of the hotel. "Out in the stable, I believe," was the answer.
'Gerald and I made the mistake, I think; we believed ourselves in love. 'Did you? Mrs. Mallison repeated her tone of affectionate and brooding interest. 'What a strange thing the human heart is, isn't it? 'Very, very strange. 'How dear and frank of you to see it all as you do. And there are no more mistakes now, said Mrs. Mallison. 'No one is reasonable and every one is radiant.
"I know it, but, somehow, I feel I might do better there than in such a town as this, and I am getting tired of hanging around the lake." "There is more money in Philadelphia than there is here, that is certain, Joe. But you can't always get hold of it. The big cities are crowded with people trying to obtain situations." "I'm sure I can find something to do, Mr. Mallison.
Yes, malicious, malicious to the point of vulgarity; that was Althea's thought as, like an arrow released from long tension, she sped away, the turn of the square once made and Mrs. Mallison and her dogs once more received into the small house in an adjacent street. Tears were in Althea's eyes, hot tears, of fury, of humiliation, and oh, it flooded over her of bitterest sorrow and yearning.
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