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Then come the panic, an' I found out almost over night that I was land poor. I needed cash, or credit at the bank, or I had to take a big loss. I went to see Fred Orcutt I banked with him, those days, an' he knew the fix I was in.
"I came home," he informed her, somewhat superfluously, his eyes never leaving her, wandering hungrily from her face to her new suit, and back again to her face. "I got here on the seven o'clock train, I wanted to see about those new Blubbers." "They finished setting them up this afternoon," she said. "How did you know?" "I asked Mr. Orcutt about it I thought you might telephone."
"Not any later than you are, Captain. An' I'm headed in. Put over any more big deals lately?" "What do you mean?" "Oh, I run onto Cameron about a week back. He was huntin' you or Orcutt. He told me how you beat old John McNabb out of his pulp-wood almost.
McNabb's hand stayed him before he could seize hold of Wentworth, who was crawling toward the door. "Let him go, lad," advised the old man. "We've got the coat. An' an' we're all happy!" "But the money? He's got the three hundred and fifty thousand!" cried Hedin. McNabb grinned. "Suppose we just let Orcutt worry about that," he said.
And then the sense of God's omnipresence, of His being there alone with her, so startled her and awakened such a feeling of her fearful loneliness, orphanage, antagonism to God, that she could bear it no longer, and at two o'clock she went down again; but Mrs. Brown looked over at Mrs. Orcutt in a way that said: "Told you so! Guilty conscience! Can't sleep!"
Wentworth is awfully nice, and all the girls are crazy about him." "I don't think that gives you any call to rave much over him when it was Fred Orcutt that brought him here, and he brought him for no other purpose than to knife your father," replied Hedin dryly. Jean laughed. "You take Dad too seriously. He really believes Mr.
Dropping the pen, she went over to the window, staring out over the grey waters, trembling so violently that she could scarcely stand. She did not look around when they entered the room Ditmar, Caldwell, Orcutt, and evidently a few watchmen and overseers. Some one turned on the electric switch, darkening the scene without. Ditmar continued to speak in vehement tones of uncontrolled rage.
Orcutt, perhaps, whose office was across the hall a tall, lean, spectacled man of fifty who looked like a schoolmaster. "Orcutt, what's the matter with the opener in Cooney's room?" "Why, the blower's out of order." "Well, whose fault is it?".... He knew every watchman and foreman in the mill, and many of the second hands.
As a matter of fact, he has mistaken the day his options expire. He believes he has until the first of August." Cameron whistled. "Are you sure?" he asked incredulously. "I don't know him personally, but his reputation for shrewdness " "And ninety-nine times out of a hundred he's as shrewd as his reputation calls for," interrupted Orcutt, "but this is the hundredth time!
Thus they jogged back to the city, all three silent, occupied with personal thoughts suggested by their expedition this fine May morning into Clark's Field, which the judge for one felt had been thoroughly successful. Judge Orcutt kept the two cousins to luncheon, and when Adelle had gone with his housekeeper to lay aside her hat and wraps, he was left alone with the young stone mason.
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