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Neergard. Please do not buy up the rest of Long Island, because we need a new kitchen-garden very badly." Rosamund scarcely nodded his dismissal. And the next moment Neergard found himself quite alone, standing with the smirk still stamped on his stiffened features, his hat-brim and gloves crushed in his rigid fingers, his little black mousy eyes fixed on nothing, as usual.
The next morning, Selwyn went downtown at the usual hour and found Gerald, pale and shaky, hanging over his desk and trying to dictate letters to an uncomfortable stenographer. So he dismissed the abashed girl for the moment, closed the door, and sat down beside the young man. "Go home, Gerald" he said with decision; "when Neergard comes in I'll tell him you are not well.
"Well, if you really insist, they ah don't want you, Neergard." "Who why how do you happen to know that they don't? Is this some petty spite of that young cub, Gerald? Or" and he almost looked at Ruthven "is this some childish whim of yours?" "Oh, really now " "Yes, really now," sneered Neergard, "you'd better tell me.
And what I'm going to do is to marry Miss Orchil. Now you know; now you understand. I don't care a damn about the Erroll boy; and I think I'll discount right now any intentions of any married man to bother Miss Orchil after some Dakota decree frees him from the woman whom he's driven into an asylum." Ruthven looked at him curiously: "So that is discounted, is it?" "I think so," nodded Neergard.
And that is how matters stand; Neergard is ugly, and grows more threatening about those loans and I haven't any money, and Mrs. Ruthven will require more very soon " "Is that all?" demanded Selwyn sharply. "Yes all. . . . I know I have behaved shamefully " "I've seen," observed Selwyn in a dry, hard voice, "worse behaviour than yours. . . . Have you a pencil, Gerald?
"One moment, Draymore," cut in Selwyn; and his voice rang unpleasantly; "if you are simply complaining because you have been outwitted, go ahead; but if you think there has been any really dirty business in this matter, go to Mr. Neergard. Otherwise, being his associate, I shall not only decline to listen but also ask you to leave my apartments."
But there's always one more way of making a living after you counted 'em all up on your fingers. If you've any capital to offer Neergard, he won't shriek for help." "But isn't suburban property " "On the jump? Yes both ways. Oh, I suppose that Neergard is all right if he wasn't I wouldn't have permitted Gerald to go into it.
Why Neergard, who had forced himself into the Siowitha, ever came to commit so gross a blunder as to dragoon, or even permit, the club to acquire the acreage, the exploiting of which had threatened their existence, is not very clear.
But, Austin, this furtive pouncing on a thing and clubbing other people's money out of them with it this slyly acquiring land that is necessary to an unsuspecting neighbour and then holding him up I don't like. There's always something of this sort that prevents my cordial co-operation with Neergard always something in the schemes which hints of of squeezing of something underground "
A little later, reverting to the subject of his own enforced idleness, Selwyn said: "I've been on the point of going to see Neergard but somehow I can't quite bring myself to it slinking into his office as a rank failure in one profession, to ask him if he has any use for me again." "Stuff and fancy!" growled Gerard; "it's all stuff and fancy about your being any kind of a failure.
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