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Queed, by inquiring, in mundane language, whether or not he had been fired. "No!" laughed the star. "Instead of firing him, I'm now bent on hiring him. Oh, you'd better not laugh! It's to you I want to hire him!" But at that the shining Planet laughed the more. "What have I done to be worthy of this distinction? Also, what can I do with him?
The old professor's face was gray; his very lips were colorless; but his eyes were steady, and his voice was the voice of every day. "I think," said Queed, quietly, "that it is addressed to you." There was a lengthening silence while the two men, motionless, looked into each other's eyes.
In the years that he had been in prison, his father had spent no money beyond the twenty-five dollars a month to Tim Queed; and comparatively little in the years of his wanderings. In all this time the interest upon his "nest-egg" had been steadily accumulating.
Unless Tim had taken him to the Cathedral once, twenty years ago, it was the first time that Queed had ever been inside a church. He had read Renan at fourteen, finally discarding all religious beliefs in the same year. Approximately Spencer's First Cause satisfied his reason, though he meant to buttress Spencer's contention in its weakest place and carry it deeper than Spencer did.
She skipped away, smiling to herself, happily putting things away and humming an air. Queed watched her in annoyed silence. His adamantine gravity inspired her with an irresistible impulse to levity; so the law of averages claimed its innings. "While you are thinking up what to say," she rattled on, "might I ask your advice on a sociological problem that was just laid before me by Laura?"
"Hardly. I am going because it will be the best sort of arrangement for me." "Oh!" "I will pay, you see," said Queed, "no more than I am paying here; for that matter, I have no doubt that I could beat him down to five dollars a week, if I cared to do so.
I am keeping it," said the old man, lowering his voice to a chuckling whisper, "for you!" He leaned over the table, fixing Queed with a gaze of triumphant cunning. "I'm going to make you my heir! Leave everything I have in the world to you!" A wave of sick disgust swept through the young man, momentarily engulfing his power of speech.
West had had everything in the beginning except money; and he had the faculty of making all of that he wanted. Queed she found that name still clinging to him in her thoughts had had nothing in the beginning except his fearless honesty. In everything else that a man should he, he had seemed to her painfully destitute.
Queed, of course, had no means of knowing that she was thinking, almost jubilantly: "I knew that mouth meant spirit!" He only knew that, whereas he had meant to terminate the interview with a grave yet stinging rebuke to her, she had given the effect of terminating the interview with a graceful yet stinging rebuke to him. This was not what he wanted in the least.
He was in love with her in 1850," said Sharlee to Queed, and immediately whisked away to tell something else to somebody else. One of the first groups of veterans in the line, heading the Virginia Division, was the popular R.E. Lee Camp of Richmond. All afternoon they trod to the continual accompaniment of cheers.
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