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And I think, dad, this is going to cause me more suffering than it will you." A faint smile flitted across old Hector's stern face. Youth! Youth! It always thinks it knows! "This affair is beyond consideration by the McKayes, Donald. It is utterly impossible! You must cease calling on the girl." "Why, father?"
She cannot leave Port Agnew without sufficient funds to carry her through for a while, and she'd die before she'd accept the gift of a penny from anybody in Port Agnew, particularly the McKayes. Even a loan from The Laird would be construed as a roundabout way of buying her off." Mr.
"I think I have paid my debt to the McKayes," she declared, and in her calm voice there was a sibilant little note of passion. "Indeed, I have a slight credit-balance due me, and though Mrs. McKaye and her daughters cannot bring themselves to the point of acknowledging this indebtedness, I must insist upon collecting it.
"Then, Andrew, it is your duty to tell me why you know it isn't true, in order that I may set at rest certain rumors " "You mind your own business, Mary!" he cried furiously, punctuating each word with a vigorous tap of his finger on the arm of her chair. "The McKayes meet their responsibilities as eagerly as they do their enemies.
For she could cook wonderfully well and she knew it; she believed she could dignify a kitchen and she preferred it to cadging from the McKayes the means to enable her to withstand the economic siege incident to procuring a livelihood more dignified and remunerative. Thus she had planned up to the day of her unexpected meeting with Jane and Elizabeth McKaye in the Port Agnew telegraph office.
"How perfectly lovely!" she cooed, and dropped a stitch which later would be heard from on the march, in the shape of a blister on a Gallic heel. "You're so thoughtful and kind, Andrew! Sometimes I wonder if the McKayes really appreciate your worth." "Well, we'll see," he answered enigmatically and went off to bed.
He had a curiosity to discover whether the child favored the McKayes or the Brents. If it favored the McKayes well, perhaps he might make some provision for its future in his will, and in order to prove himself a good sport he would leave an equal sum to Nan's illegitimate child, which Donald had formally adopted a few days after his marriage to Nan.
His youthful superior's face was white and beaded with perspiration. Daney had a suspicion that Donald had had a drink or two. "There has been no gossip, Donald," he answered crisply. "Get that notion out of your head. I would protect you from gossip, for I think I know my duty to the McKayes. I learned that lesson a long time ago," he added, with spirit. "You haven't answered my question, Mr.
Why make fish of one and fowl of the other? he thought. They were both McKayes now, in the sight of the law, and for aught he knew to the contrary they were full brothers! The child became an obsession with him. He longed to weigh it and compare its weight with that of Donald's at the same age he had the ancient record in an old memorandum book at the office.
In view of the justice of my claim, however, I cannot stultify my womanhood by permitting the McKaye women to think they can dismiss the obligation by writing a check. I am not an abandoned woman, Mr. Daney. I have sensibilities and, strange to relate, I, too, have pride more than the McKayes I think sometimes.
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