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Otherwise, the young officer might have been suspicious. What he had seen of Mortlake had not particularly elevated that gentleman in his opinion. But if he had desired to wrong the Prescotts, reasoned the officer, such a resourceful man as he had adjudged Mortlake to be, would have sought a deeper and more subtle way of going about it.
The Army would have lost to-day if the West Point eleven had been made up exclusively of Prescotts and Holmeses!" As Belle spoke thus warmly her gaze wandered, resting, though not by intent, on the face of a young Army officer passing at that moment. "If the remark was made to me, miss," smiled the Army officer, "I wish to say that I wholly agree with you.
There may be other Prescotts, but there isn't but one Paul Prescott, take my word for it." "If it is he," said Aunt Lucy, indignantly, "is it Christianlike to rejoice over the poor boy's misfortune?" "Misfortune!" retorted Mrs. Mudge with a sneer; "you call it a misfortune to steal, then! I call it a crime."
I'll write to Katharine to-night and plead my friendship for her parents. Where is she? And I'll tell her you're here." "She's at South End, with the Prescotts." For some moments the older and the younger man smoked in silence. The sun set in due time and Captain David's Light appeared.
In the inner room, Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery, and was engaged in making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back. She had not expected Sam to return so instantaneously.
But a bigger surprise lay in store for the young Prescotts. That afternoon they had, as visitors, no one less than Fanning Harding and Regina Mortlake. While Peggy and the daughter of the designer of the Mortlake aeroplane chatted in one corner, Fanning placed his arm on Roy's shoulder and drew him out upon the veranda where Miss Prescott sat with her embroidery.
There was a wild snort. Satan seemed instantly bent on proving the appropriateness of his name. Lowering his head, Satan kicked out viciously with his hind feet, throwing the horses just behind into confusion. Almost in the same instant Satan bit the rump of a horse in front of him. Then up reared Prescotts mount. Dick was a good horseman, but this move had caught him unawares.
In the inner room Billie, who had rejected the mental refreshment offered by Widgery and was engaged on making a tour of the office, looking at the portraits of whiskered men whom she took correctly to be the Thorpes, Prescotts, Winslows, and Applebys mentioned on the contents-bill outside, was surprised to hear the door open at her back. She had not expected Sam to return so instantaneously.
Haynes turned ghastly pale, his jaw moving nervously as though he would speak and could not. A smile of scorn flashed into Prescotts face. Haynes fairly writhed beneath that contemptuous look. Then, still without a word or a sound, Prescott passed on. "He did it!" muttered Dick to himself. Yet, with the certainty of the turnbacks guilt, Prescott did not wish Haynes any personal harm.
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