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A very trim, very intelligent-looking maid opened the door, and the two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals. Here Mr. Sneyd paused. "I weon't be bawthring you," he said. "Just a wad with you, Cantess, and I'm off."
"I've got to go and see what that newspaper-man, Cornish, wants; it's ten o'clock. I'll be back after a while; I want to reason this out with you. I don't deny but it's possible I'm wrong; anyway, you think it over while I'm gone. You take a good hard think, will you?" As he closed the door, Mellin slowly drew the coverlet over his head.
"'Yes, I says, 'Mack, I says, 'if you'll drop it, I'll turn in and git you the nomination." "Did he drop it?" asked Mellin innocently. Mr. Pedlow leaned forward and struck the young man's knee a resounding blow with the palm of his hand. "He was nominated, wasn't he?" "Time to dress," announced Mr. Sneyd, looking at his watch. "One more round first," insisted Cooley with prompt vehemence.
A faint redness slowly revealed itself on her powdered cheeks; then she followed him back to the table and took the place he had assigned to her at Mellin's elbow. "I'll bank," said Pedlow, taking a chair between Cooley and the Italian, "unless somebody wants to take it off my hands. Now, what are we playing?" "Pokah," responded Sneyd with mild sarcasm. "Bravo!" cried Mellin. "That's my game.
Sneyd said he might be in Rome along about then, and open-hearted ole Pedlow said not to be surprised if he turned up, too. Well, he did, almost to the minute, and in the meantime she'd got you hooked on, fine and tight." "I don't understand you," Mellin lifted himself painfully on an elbow.
Then you gave him your note for twelve thousand francs to be paid within three days. You made a great deal of fuss about its being a 'debt of honor." He paused. "You hadn't remembered that, had you?" Mellin had closed his eyes. He lay quite still and made no answer. "No, I'll bet you hadn't," said Cooley, correctly deducing the fact.
See what many people! It is jus' that Fate again." She laughed, and looked to the Italian for sympathy in her kindly merriment. He smiled cordially upon her, then lifted his hat and smiled as cordially upon Mellin. "I am so happy to fin' myself in Rome that I forget" Madame de Vaurigard went on "ever'sing! But now I mus' make sure not to lose you. What is your hotel?"
Cornish, if you're goin' to help me about shipping the car, I'm ready." "So am I. Good-by, Mr. Mellin." "Good-by," Mellin said feebly "and thank you." Young Cooley came back to the bedside and shook the other's feverish hand. "Good-by, ole man. I'm awful sorry it's all happened, but I'm glad it didn't cost you quite as much money as it did me. Otherwise I expect it's hit us about equally hard.
"Manning," he said, as Jim dropped off his horse and stood in the doorway, "how about the canal through Mellin's place?" Jim tossed his hair back from his face and lighted a cigarette. "Mellin, the Land Hog?" he asked. "Well, his canal's like the apple core. There ain't going to be one!" Freet's small black eyes met Jim's clear gaze levelly. "Why?" he asked. Jim looked surprised.
"You go to the shore and you rustle about whenever you see anything that looks like freight; and you look at it, and when you see anything marked with a diamond and an H inside of it, you pile it on and take it up to Howard Mellin & Company. And if you can't lift it, then leave it for another trip, and bullyrag those skinflints at H. M. & Co.'s to send a man down to help you.
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