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Updated: June 5, 2025
I wish you would tell me what's wrong. There's nothing I wouldn't do, if I could, to fix it and keep you." The eyes of the two men met across the table, and it was Queed's that faltered and fell. "Well," he said, obviously embarrassed, "I find that I am out of sympathy with the policy of the paper." "Oh-h-ho!" said West, slowly and dubiously. "Do you mean my article on the reformatory?"
I thought: What a blessing if I could make a friend of this young man for the little while that is left me!... And you have been a blessing and a joy more than you can dream. And now you will not cast me off, like the others.... I do not know the words with which to try to thank you...." "Oh, don't," came Queed's voice hastily out of the dark. "There is no question of thanks here."
A faint flush drove the yellow from his cheek; his eyes were blazing. He shook a menacing finger at close range in Queed's face, which remained entirely unmoved by the demonstration. "So this is the reward of my kindness and affection! I won't endure it, do you understand? I won't be kicked into the gutter like an old shoe, do you hear? Sit down in that chair. I forbid you to leave the house."
Paynter's were gathered about her hospitable board, plying the twin arts of supping and talking. And as Sharlee's fellow-diners talked of Mr. Queed, it chanced that Mr. Queed's fellow-suppers were talking of Sharlee, or at any rate of her family's famous misfortune. Mr.
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