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"In that case," retorted Ruthven, "we'd better wind up our affairs and make arrangements for an auctioneer." "All right; wind up and be damned!" said Mottly; "there'll be at least sufficient self-respect left in the treasury to go round."
They married through and through till the whole gineration nigh run out; though what helped was that they'd fly mad sometimes and kill one another like fools. They had great big heads and mottly faces ears as big as sheepskins.
"Captain Selwyn is perfectly right," observed Orchil coolly. "Do you think, Draymore, that it is very good taste in you to come into a man's place and begin slanging and cursing a member of his firm for crooked work?" "Besides," added Mottly, "it's not crooked; it's only contemptible.
As his cab drove up to the intricately ornamental little house of gray stone, a big touring limousine wheeled out from the curb, and he caught sight of Sanxon Orchil and Phoenix Mottly inside, evidently just leaving Ruthven. His smiling and very cordial bow was returned coolly by Orchil, and apparently not observed at all by Mottly.
"Really," observed Ruthven, staring at the seated man, "I scarcely understand your remark." "Well, you'll understand it perhaps when I choose to explain it," said Neergard. "I see there's some trouble somewhere. What is it? What's the matter with Orchil, and that hatchet-faced beagle-pup, Mottly? Is there anything the matter, Jack?"
"Not treachery, only temptation," observed Ruthven blandly. "I've talked it all over with Orchil and Mottly " "You what!" gasped Neergard. "Talked about it," repeated Ruthven, hard face guileless, and raising his eyebrows a dreadful caricature of youth in the misleading smoothness of the minutely shaven face; "I told Orchil what you persuaded me to do " "You you damned "
"May I ask," began Orchil, "whether the land will be ultimately for sale?" "Oh, everything's always for sale," broke in Mottly impatiently; "what's the use of asking that? What you meant to inquire was the price we're expected to pay for this masterly squeeze in realty." "And to that," replied Selwyn more sharply still, "I must answer again that I don't know.
"I didn't say he was a social outcast," retorted Mottly "because he's never been inside of anything to be cast out, you know." "He seems to be inside this deal," ventured Orchil with his suave smile. And to Selwyn, who had been restlessly facing first one, then another: "We came it was the idea of several among us to put the matter up to you.
Then came a fox-faced young man, Phoenix Mottly, elegant arbiter of all pertaining to polo and the hunt slim-legged, hatchet-faced and more presentable in the saddle than out of it.
Draymore was incensed at the proposal, Harmon, Orchil, and Fane were disgustedly non-committal, but Phoenix Mottly was perhaps the angriest man on Long Island. "In the name of decency, Jack," he said, "what are you dreaming of? Is it not enough that this man, Neergard, holds us up once? Do I understand that he has the impudence to do it again with your connivance?
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