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"I beg your pardon," stammered Renshaw hastily. "I didn't mean to disturb you I" Without looking at him Rosey turned to her father. "I am ready," she said coldly, and closed the door again. A glance of artful intelligence came into Nott's eyes, which had remained blankly staring at Renshaw's apparently causeless hilarity. Turning to him he winked solemnly.
Renshaw's office, met Leigh face to face on the walk as he was returning to his room from a recitation, and stopped to speak to him. "Mr. Leigh," he remarked, with an observant twinkle in his eyes, "you look as if last night's experience had been too much for you." "We had enough strenuous excitement to keep any one awake," was the reply. "It was too violent a break in my monastic life."
If Felicity must marry after getting her divorce, and it now seemed wiser that she should, let her marry this young professor, who was, after all, of her own class. Her fortune would not be wholly alienated from the college interests, should Leigh continue in his professorship. The young man might be made president after Dr. Renshaw's impending retirement.
This last observation was not unnoticed by the astute Nott, who at once conceiving that he was nourishing a secret and hopeless passion for Rosey, began to consider whether it was not his duty to warn the young man of her preoccupied affections. But Mr. Renshaw's final disappearance obliged him to withhold his confidence till morning. This time Mr.
Also, seeing that she was evidently perturbed by the information, he had gone out of his way to suggest that she lay her business, whatever it might be, before Mr. Renshaw's temporary successor. Smith received her with Old-World courtesy. "Will you sit down?" he said. "Not to wait for Comrade Renshaw, of course. He will not be back for another three months. Perhaps I can help you.
Renshaw's eyes showed so plainly that he thought otherwise, that she drew a little austerely towards the door of her state-room. "I must change these things before any one comes," she said dryly. "That means I must go, I suppose. But couldn't you let me wait here or in the gangway until then, Miss Nott? I am going away to-night, and I mayn't see you again."
P'r'aps yer surprised at hearing me speak o' my own flesh and blood ez if I was talkin' hoss-trade, but you and me is bus'ness men, Mr. Renshaw, and we discusses ez such. We ain't goin' to slosh round and slop over in po'try and sentiment," continued Nott, with a tremulous voice, and a hand that slightly shook on Renshaw's shoulder.
I never thought of HIM when I first saw you; but the other day I thought how dreadful it would have been if some one like him and not like you had come up then. That made me nervous sometimes of being alone. I think father is too. He often goes about stealthily at night, as if he was watching for something." Renshaw's face grew suddenly dark.
Nott had satisfied himself of Renshaw's departure, he coolly bolted the door at the head of the companion-way, thus cutting off any communication with the lower deck. Taking a long rifle from the rack above his berth, he carefully examined the hammer and cap, and then cautiously let himself down through the forehatch to the deck below.
Renshaw intimated that he had already trespassed upon Miss Nott's time, and that no doubt her father wanted to talk with her. To his surprise and annoyance, however, Mr. Nott insisted on accompanying him to his room, and without heeding Renshaw's cold "Good-night," entered and closed the door behind him. "P'rap's," said Mr.
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