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The knife must not enter the wound, or it will be likely to be itself empoisoned, and then the mischief and the danger will be increased instead of removed. Dr. Massey was convinced of the impropriety of this when he advised that,
Procter, "the one whom you've had threatened with arrest because he harangued too freely on the street corner." He paused to finish impressively: "I see now that the man who throws away his spiritual birthright for a mess of pottage hates the one who keeps his in the face of all poverty misunderstanding ridicule." A silence dark as a cavern ensued. Mr. Massey at last got to his feet.
Dick's face went white. His mouth set tight. There was almost as ugly a look in his eyes as there was in Alan's. Tony had never seen him look like that and was frightened. "I'll clear out when Miss Holiday asks me to and not before," he said in a significantly quiet voice. "Don't go too far, Mr. Massey. I have taken a good deal from you. There's a limit. Tony, I repeat my question.
Norah felt grateful for the tact of her friend, and the widow having gone upstairs to tell Owen that he need not fear the meeting with a stranger, she returned and took Ellen into her garden, which contained a shrubbery, a lawn and flower-beds, and an arbour with a view of the river and shipping in the distance, and invited them to sit down. "This is a very pretty spot, Mrs Massey," said Ellen.
"But one o' these here magazine deteckatiffs might be able ter hook up Joe with them missin' coins, jes' the same. Mebbe he's a sernamb'list," suggested, Walky, with a sly grin. "A what?" demanded Massey, with a startled look. "He's an Odd Feller, an' a Son o' Jethro. I don't know what other lodges he b'longs to." "Jefers-pelters!" ejaculated Walky, "who's talkin' about lodges?
As the clicking sound commenced Mr. Massey stirred. "Keep very quiet," said the inventor, "and watch the glass plate." Mr. Massey obeyed. Now a satiric smile touched his lips. He was almost enjoying this child's play. But soon the smile faded, for in a moment there grew upon the glass plate standing between the two tubes a pillar of color, vivid yellow, tipped with primrose.
Mr. Massey's ingenuity in getting over a difficulty is as great as his faculty of construction. But Mr. Massey is not to be put down so easily.
Do you think I am going to be balked by a miserable circus brat a mere nobody? Not so long as I am Alan Massey. Count on that." Tony's dark eyes were ablaze with anger. "Stop there, Alan. You are saying things that are not true. And I forbid you ever to speak of Dick like that again to me." "Indeed!
I intended it for you, Norah, and Gerald, but there'll be sufficient left for what you may want, my poor child, even if it comes to the worst; and you must stay at home and take care of Widow Massey you've need to comfort each other." "No, father, if you go I will go; and go I hope you will," said Norah.
With a majestic swoop, it dived, caught it up, and next moment was flouncing wildly about, hooked by the tongue, while Bob Massey hauled in the line. He had provided himself with a stick, and when the huge bird came within reach he felled it, to the immense delight of the watchers in the cove, who had already begun to smell savoury soup by anticipation!
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