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His first thought was that Orcutt had arrived at the post and that Downey had taken the trail. He ceased paddling for a moment and his light canoe swung into the trough of the waves and rocked crankily. The other canoe was only a half mile behind, and Wentworth saw with relief that its occupant was not Downey. Some Indian fishing, he thought, and resumed his paddling.
She was dressed in the very height of the prevailing fashions a high-water mark of eccentricity that Judge Orcutt rarely encountered in the staid circles of the good city of B . Her skirt was slit so as to accentuate all there was of hips, and the bodice did the same for the bust. And the hat well, even in New York its long aigrette and daring folds had caused women to look around in the streets.
She was almost coquettish. His eyes lingered. The china silk blouse was slightly open at the neck, suggesting the fullness of her throat; it clung to the outline of her shoulders. Overcome by an impulse he could not control, he got up and went toward her, but she avoided him. "I'll tell Mr. Orcutt you've come," she said, rather breathlessly, as she reached the door and opened it.
The lawyers told Mrs. Clark that the visit to the probate court was a mere formality, meant nothing at all. But under their breaths they cursed Judge Orcutt for a meddlesome old nuisance, which would not have worried him. Adelle and her aunt, got up in their best mourning, accordingly appeared before the probate judge, who at the moment was hearing a case of non-support.
But there have been complications that you could never suspect." "So?" "Yes. In the first, you were dead right about Wentworth about not trusting him. And you knew who he expected to let in on the deal?" "Why, Orcutt, of course," replied McNabb. "I know all about that. That's why I told ye to hold off till the last minute about closing."
At one minute past twelve on that day, the property passed into the hands of the Eureka Paper Company of which I am president. I signed the contract and paid over the money myself at Gods Lake Post." "Was it July?" mumbled McNabb, apparently dazed. "But there was Wentworth. He had the papers. Surely he must have known." Orcutt laughed. "Yes. Wentworth knew. He knew the day you hired him.
"So, Orcutt, Wentworth & Company set out to down poor old John McNabb," he muttered. "I kind of figured rope was all Wentworth wanted to hang himself with an' rope's cheap. But Orcutt an' his Eureka Paper Company now he must have gone to quite a little bother, first an' last, an' some expense. Too bad!
"They said that nothing could be done now for these California Clarks, because it would make a lot of trouble and harm innocent people to go back of the new titles to the property," Adelle replied. "And they were perfectly right," Judge Orcutt said, with a long sigh, after a moment of consideration. "It was the only thing they could say to you!"
Life had in fact jested with him too often and too bitterly for him to trust its promises completely. He had no real confidence in Fortune's smiles. "It doesn't seem right," Adelle hastened to say. "But I am afraid what they said must be so, for Judge Orcutt told me it was the law." "And who is your Judge Orcutt?" the mason demanded suspiciously.
"'Better come inside, then, he grins, an' I followed him into a little box of a private office. 'Of course, I says later, when I'd told him what I wanted, 'most of my collateral is pine timber, an' I suppose, as Orcutt says, it's depreciated "'Depreciated? he asks. 'Why has it depreciated? It's all standin' on end, ain't it? he says. An' it ain't gettin' no smaller, is it?
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