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"Some of those distances," replied Selwyn. "Well, then, Gerald swam some of those distances and everybody was amazed. . . . I do wish you knew him well." "I mean to," he said. "I must look him up at his rooms or his club or perhaps at Neergard & Co." "Will you do this?" she asked, so earnestly that he glanced up surprised.
The boy's close relations with Neergard worried him most of all; and though Neergard finally agreed to drop the Siowitha matter as a fixed policy in which Selwyn had been expected to participate at some indefinite date, the arrangement seemed only to cement the man's confidential companionship with Gerald.
He touched a button; the man-servant appeared to usher Selwyn out. The latter set his teeth in his under lip and looked straight and hard at Neergard, but Neergard thrust both hands in his pockets, turned squarely on his heel, and sauntered out of the room, yawning as he went.
"No not all. I Neergard has lent me money done things placed me under obligations. . . . I liked him, you know; I trusted him. . . . People he desired to know I made him known to. He was a a trifle peremptory at times as though my obligations to him left me no choice but to take him to such people as he desired to meet. . . . We we had trouble recently." "What sort?" "Personal.
Could you not, as his friend, discourage his increasing tendency toward dissipation " "I am not aware that he is dissipated." "What!" "I say that I am not aware that Gerald requires any interference from me or from you, either," said Neergard coolly. "And as far as that goes, I and my business require no interference either. And I believe that settles it."
Draymore hesitated, then with the brutality characteristic of the overfed: "I don't give a damn, Captain Selwyn, what Neergard thinks; but I do want to know what a gentleman like yourself, accidentally associated with that man, thinks of this questionable proceeding."
"You buy too many clothes," he observed. "That's a new suit, isn't it?" "Certainly," said Gerald; "I needed it." "Oh! if you can afford it, all right. . . . How's the nimble Mr. Neergard?" "Neergard is flourishing. We put through that Rose Valley deal. I tell you what, Austin, I wish you could see your way clear to finance one or two " Austin's frown cut him short. "Oh, all right!
"But not vicious, Austin, and not untruthful. Where his affections are centred he is always generous; where they should be centred he is merely thoughtless, not deliberately selfish " "See here, Phil, how much good has your molly-coddling done him? You warned him to be cautious in his intimacy with Neergard, and he was actually insulting to you " "I know; but I understood.
"Oh, no, you won't!" broke in Neergard with a sneer "you'll mind your own business, my intrusive friend, and I'll take care of my guests without your assistance." Selwyn appeared not to hear him: "Come on, Gerald," he said pleasantly; "Mrs. Ruthven is going over to the Niobrara " "For God's sake," whispered Gerald, white as a sheet, "don't force me into trouble with Neergard."
Meanwhile, Neergard had almost finished with Gerald he had only one further use for him; and as his social success became more pronounced with the people he had crowded in among, he became bolder and more insolent, no longer at pains to mole-tunnel toward the object desired, no longer overcareful about his mask.
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