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Nairn's welcome made Judith feel at home at once, and she gave her aunt's messages to her hostess so prettily and so modestly that Mrs. Nairn was quite charmed with Nancy's new friend. At dinner the sons of the house appeared, and with them Tom Southam, Jack's roommate at college. Jack had the same merry blue eyes and sunny smile as his sister, and Judith forgot to be shy with him.
"I've had a chat with Horsfield," Carroll remarked. "Well?" "He may merely have meant to make himself agreeable, and he may have wished to extract information about you: If the latter was his object, he was not successful." "Ah! Nairn's straight, anyway, and to be relied on. I like him and his wife." "So do I, though they differ from some of the others. There's not much gilding on either of them."
Nairn's adroit management, which even Evelyn did not often suspect, that they were thrown more and more into each other's company. Jessy Horsfield, however, looked on with bitterness. She was a strong-willed young woman who hitherto had generally contrived to obtain whatever she had set her heart on; and she had set it on this man.
"Judith's a game little thing," he said to his mother later on; "I suppose we shouldn't have left them so soon, but she seemed to get the hang of it very quickly she slid into that bank as neatly as an arrow I'm mighty glad she isn't hurt." Judith could hardly keep her eyes open at the dinner-table, and she was glad enough to accept Mrs. Nairn's suggestion that she go to bed early.
Too many cooks are apt to spoil the kale." Mrs. Nairn left him, but she afterward glanced thoughtfully once or twice at Vane and Evelyn, who had again drawn together. Vane sat in Nairn's office with a frown on his face. Specimens of ore lately received from the mine were scattered about a table and Nairn had some papers in his hand.
While I have to thank ye for it, I would not consider the explanation altogether necessary." Nairn's eyes twinkled for a moment, and then he turned seriously to Vane. "Now we come to another point the company's a small one, the mine is doing satisfactorily, and the moment's favorable for the floating of mineral properties.
"I think my brother would like to say a few words when he comes back. Can I offer you some tea?" "I think not," answered Carroll, smiling. "For one thing, if I sit still much longer, I shall, no doubt, go to sleep again, as I did at Nairn's; and that would be neither seemly nor convenient, if I'm to sail this evening.
Kitty rose, motioning to Celia, and Carroll turned back with them toward the city, feeling a certain constraint in their company and yet conscious of a strong relief. It had grown dark when he returned to Nairn's house. "Where have ye been?" his host inquired. "I had a clerk seeking ye all round the city. I canna get ye a boat before the morn." Carroll saw that Mrs.
One afternoon three or four days after Carroll had sailed, Evelyn sat alone in Mrs. Nairn's drawing-room, a prey to confused regrets and keen anxiety. She had recovered from the first shock caused her by Carroll's news, but though she could face the situation more calmly, she could find no comfort anywhere Vane was lying, helpless and famishing, in the frost-bound wilderness.
By the way, the last time we were at Nairn's I happened to cross the room near where you and Miss Horsfield were sitting, and I heard her ask you to wait for something at Nanaimo or Comox. It struck me as curious." "She told me to wait so that she could send me word to come back, if it should be needful." "Ah!" ejaculated Carroll.
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