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"How's that?" he said. "There was a young woman with him?" repeated Mrs. Porter. Mr. Penway imagined that he had placed her by this time. Here, he told himself in his own crude language, was the squab's mother camping on Kirk's trail with an axe. Mr. Penway's moral code was of the easiest description. His sympathies were entirely with Kirk.
"So you see that there is no need for any more subterfuge and concealment. I do not intend to leave this room until you have told me all you have to tell, so you had better be quick about it. Kindly tell me the truth in as few words as possible if you know what is meant by telling the truth." A belated tenderness for his dignity came to Mr. Penway. "You are insulting," he remarked.
"A delightful spot," observed Mr. Penway, who had followed. "Sandy, but replete with squabs. Why didn't you come earlier? We could have taken you." "May I talk privately with you, Mr. Winfield?" "Sure." Kirk looked at Mr. Penway, who nodded agreeably. "Outside for Robert?" he inquired amiably. "Very well. There is no Buttinsky blood in the Penway family.
As a practical worker he was not greatly esteemed least of all by the editors of magazines, who had paid advance cheques to him for work which, when delivered at all, was delivered too late for publication. These, once bitten, were now twice shy of Mr. Penway. They did not deny his great talents, which were, indeed, indisputable; but they were fixed in their determination not to make use of them.
He stood at the door, gazing after the motor as it moved down the street. When it had turned the corner he went back into the studio and mixed himself a high-ball. "Kirk does manage to find them," he said enviously. Mr. Penway on the Grill Fate moves in a mysterious way. Luck comes hand in hand with misfortune. What we lose on the swings we make up on the roundabouts.
Penway had been hinting that the time had arrived for a folding of the hands. Mr. Penway's views on New York and its record humidity were strong and crisply expressed. His idea, he told Kirk, was that some sport with a heart should loan him a couple of hundred bucks and let him beat it to the seashore before he melted.
Fate could have provided no more suitable ally for Kirk. It was universally admitted around Washington Square and grudgingly down-town that in the matter of theory Mr. Penway excelled. He could teach to perfection what he was too erratic to practise. Robert Dwight Penway, run to earth one sultry evening in the Brevoort, welcomed Kirk as a brother, as a rich brother.
For a moment she sat looking at him, by way of completing the work of subjection, while Mr. Penway writhed uneasily on his chair and thought of past sins. "My name is Mrs. Porter," she began abruptly. "Mine's Penway," said the miserable being before her. It struck him as the only thing to say. "I have come to inquire about Mr. Winfield." As she paused Mr.
He worked doggedly on under the blasphemous but efficient guidance of Mr. Penway. He was becoming a man with a fixed idea the idea of making good. He began to make headway. His beginnings were small, but practical.
Penway. Robert Dwight Penway's attitude toward his contemporaries in art bore a striking resemblance to Steve's estimate of his successors in the middle-weight department of the American prize-ring. Surprisingly to those who knew him, Mr. Penway was as good as his word. Certainly Kirk's terms had been extremely generous; but he had thrown away many a contract of equal value in his palmy days.
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