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It was because I told her to leave. I know she did it on purpose! Mumford closed the door of the room, shutting out Cobb and the cook and the housemaid. He repeated the story Cobb had told him, and quietly urged the improbability of his wife's explanation.
Please pay the cabman I've got no change. A few hours before this there had come a letter from Mrs. Higgins; better written and spelt than would have seemed likely. 'Dear Mrs. Mumford, it ran, 'L. is coming to-morrow morning, and I hope you won't repent. There's just one thing I meant to have said to you but forgot, so I'll say it now.
But the quarrel with mother had upset me so, and I felt so miserable when Mrs. Mumford seemed to want to get rid of me. I feel sure she didn't really want to send me away: she was only advising me, as she thought, for my good. But I can't, and won't, go home. And I've been waiting all the afternoon to see you. No; not here. I went to Epsom Downs and walked about, and then came back just in time.
Think of 'em dancin' on the decks and Say, what's the matter with our startin' a little something like that?" "Let's!" says Vee. So we had a deck steward lug the music machine up out of the cabin, set J. Dudley to work puttin' on dance records, and, with Mrs. Mumford and the Professor and half the crew for a gallery, we gave an exhibition spiel for an hour or so.
"And I may say, to quiet any similar fears, that the entire burden of the treasure hunt will be undertaken by Mrs. Hemmingway, the Captain, and myself. Incidentally, we expect to divide the spoils among ourselves. Aside from that, we ask you to share with us the pleasure and perhaps the perils of the trip." "O-o-o-oh!" coos Mrs. Mumford, meanin' nothing at all.
Having secured their "paying guest," they hoped she would remain with them for a year or two at least. But already Louise had dropped hints such as Emmeline could not fail to understand, and her avowal of serious interest in a lover came rather as an annoyance than a surprise to Mrs. Mumford.
I'm quite sure Emmy will be glad to let you come for the night, Miss Derrick 'Yes, but Mr. Mumford, I want to stay longer a few weeks longer. Do you think Mrs. Mumford would forgive me? I have made up my mind what to do, and I ought to have told her. I should have, if I hadn't lost my temper.
Her countenance was disturbed, she seemed to be putting a restraint upon herself, and only with great effort to subdue her voice. 'What are you going to do? asked Emmeline, in a friendly tone, but, as it were, from a distance. 'I am going to ask you to do me a great kindness, Mrs. Mumford. There was no reply. The girl paused a moment, then resumed impulsively. 'Mr.
Katie Mumford, as she was then called, had no sister to play with, and of her four brothers only one lived to be a man. But her dear mother more than made up for every lack, and from her lips the little girl learned those blessed lessons which, in her turn, she has taught to us. One lesson which Mrs. Mumford early taught her daughter was that our bodies will not live for ever.
Mumford, one of the Telegraph Company's directors, conceived a fondness for the dog, and took him to the Occidental Hotel. On the first day of his hotel life we tied Norcum on the balcony in front of Mumford's room, about forty feet from the ground. Scarcely had we gone to dinner when he jumped from the balcony and hung by his chain, with his hind feet resting upon a cornice.
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