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Please send Aunt 'Phrony." "I'm going to call your mother," she said firmly. "If you do, you'll regret it the longest day you live." "Then let me take the papers down to Mr. Norman for you." He considered the alternative for a moment only a moment. What an exquisite revenge it would be to make her the messenger!
Wickersham, after having laid most careful plans and reached the point for which he had striven, found himself, at the very moment of victory, in danger of being defeated. He had induced Phrony Tripper to come to New York. She was desperately in love with him, and would have gone to the ends of the earth for him. But he had promised to marry her; it was to marry him that she had come.
Whatever Nat proposed in Sam's understanding was right and feasible; and even if it wasn't really so, Nat would make it so.... They engaged the house and moved. Miss Ann Sophronsiba Whitmarsh, a maiden lady of forty-five or thereabouts, popularly known as "Phrony," had been coming in by the day to "do for" old Sam in the rooms above the shop.
She laughed again as she turned away and started off hastily. Keith caught up with her. "But, Phrony " But she hurried on, shaking her head, and talking to herself about finding her baby and about its beauty. Keith kept up with her, put his hand in his pocket, and taking out several bills, handed them to her. "Here, you must take this, and tell me where you are staying."
Ferdy Wickersham in calm and indifferent discourse with her grandfather on the crops, on cattle, and on the effect of the new railroad on products and prices. Several sessions at a boarding-school of some pretension, with ambition which had been awakened years before under the apple-trees, had given Miss Phrony the full number of accomplishments that are to be gained by such means.
"Ain't I right?" "I think so." "He wants me to let him have control of it; but I ain't a-goin' to do that neither." "That's certainly right," said Keith, heartily. "I tell him I'm a-goin' to hold to that for Phrony. Phrony says she wants me to sell it to him, too. But women-folks don't know about business."
"Some folks was a-hintin'," pursued the old fellow, speaking slowly, "as, maybe, that young man hadn't married her; but I knowed better then that, because, even if Phrony warn't a good girl, which she is, though she ain't got much sense, he knowed me. They ain't none of 'em ever intimated that to me," he added explanatorily. Keith was glad that he had not intimated it.
It was easier to him, as he was very busy now pushing through the final steps of his deal with the English syndicate. This he was the more zealous in as his last visit South had shown him that old Mr. Rawson was beginning to fail. "I am just livin' now to hear about Phrony," said the old man, " and to settle with that man," he added, his deep eyes burning under his shaggy brows.
They bank on brass and credulity. That's what I calls it." The old man's face clouded. "I had been puttin' that by for Phrony," he said. "But she didn't want it. My money warn't good enough for her. Some day she'll know better." Keith waited for his humor to pass. "I won't ever do nothin' for her; but if ever you see her, I'd like you to help her out if she needs it," he said huskily.
"Phrony, you must go home," said Keith. For a second a spasm shot over her face; then a ray of light seemed to flit across it, and then it died out. She shook her head. "No, I'll never go back there," she said. "Oh, yes, you will you must. I will take you back.
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