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Updated: June 23, 2025
And I know how to get the details to my friend Presson's daughter in time to spoil your ambition in that quarter. Now, how about that?" They were in one corner of the State-House lobby, and the presence of a hundred men about them probably saved Spinney from a beating there and then. Harlan quivered with rage. He did not grasp the full purport of Spinney's hints.
"I hope you'll get it straightened out," he said, coldly. "But with a story like that extant, of course you'll see the wisdom of the course I've suggested. You cannot afford to drag Miss Presson's name into your affair." "Into my affair! You dirty pup, do you dare to intimate are you lunatic enough to take stock in any such story about me?" The epithets sent the color into Linton's face.
Tell me what she knows; and how does she talk?" In the dusk he could not see the expression on her face. He knew that she listened intently, leaning above him. He was not conscious that he praised Madeleine Presson's gifts of mind or person.
Thornton, do you believe that any member of Presson's family would be offended if Presson were made to obey the law?" "Well, if he persisted against the new law, it would be a pretty hard position for any fair person to defend," admitted the young man.
The young man was not in the mood to accept Miss Presson's invitation to accompany them to the hotel parlor. In the corridor he refused so brusquely that she stood and gazed at him, allowing the others to go on without her. "You seem to be taking politics very seriously, Mr. Harlan Thornton." "I'm taking honesty and my pledges seriously, that's all."
The Republican Convention was called for the twenty-eighth, in the big hall of the State's metropolis. On the day before, Thelismer Thornton emerged from the back room of headquarters at the State capital, and with Chairman Presson and Harlan journeyed to the scene of the conflict. Before their departure the Duke had been obliged, smilingly, to refuse a request of Mrs. Presson's.
Linton did not remove his overcoat when they were closeted together. He stood with hat in his hand. "It may surprise you to learn that my business concerns Miss Presson and the legislative ball to-morrow evening," began Linton, but Harlan indignantly broke in. "You can have no possible business with me, sir, in which Miss Presson's name may be mentioned. Don't you use her name not in any way.
It was truly an academic way of settling matters so riotously impatient of calculation as affairs of the heart, and his determination would have appealed to Miss Presson's sense of the humorous more acutely still had he undertaken to explain his emotions of that moment. Thelismer Thornton, strolling amiably through the lobby throng, came and put his hand on Harlan's shoulder.
Two very round eyes testified to Mrs. Presson's amazement. But once more she found her social feet after this echo of the main quake. She took Harlan's hand, and placed it on the chair next to that of her daughter. "You'll sit here, if you please, Mr. Thornton," she said, urbanely.
"I didn't know I did nothing if it was about me I didn't " He stopped her brutally. "About you, you little fool? Of course it wasn't about you! My grandson is going to marry Luke Presson's daughter." She stiffened in the hook of his arm. They were in the corridor and had not come into the view of the people. "Every one knows it," he hurried on.
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