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Aileen paused in the act of sliding her greasy hands rapidly over and over in each other, an occupation which afforded her unmixed delight, to look up at him in amazement. "How did yer know anything 'bout her?" "Oh, I heard." "Did Romanzo Caukins tell yer?" she demanded, as usual on the defensive. "No, oh no; it was only hearsay. Do tell me about her. We don't have any round here."
Champney was still young enough to resent being made a subject of such practical joking by a little girl; but he was also sufficiently wise to acknowledge to himself that he had been worsted and, in the end, to put a good face on it. It is true he would have preferred that Romanzo Caukins had not been witness to his defeat. The sneezing and laughter gradually subsided.
The strong white pepper, which Romanzo managed to procure from Hannah, had been cunningly secreted by Aileen between the imbricate petals, and then tied, in a manner invisible at night, with a fine thread of pink silk begged from Ann. It was now acting and re-acting on the lining of the serenader's olfactory organ in a manner to threaten final decapitation.
You don't suppose a man walks three miles in a hot night to serenade a girl just to get an ounce of pepper in his nose by way of thanks, do you?" "I thought yer didn't mane it; Romanzo said yer was laughing at me for telling yer 'bout the lords and ladies a-making love with their guitars." The voice indicated some dejection of spirits. "He did, did he! I'll settle with Romanzo later."
Romanzo has just telephoned that he can't get home for supper, but he'll be up in time to see you home." Mrs. Caukins was diplomatic; she looked upon herself as a committee of one on ways and means to further her son's interest so far as Aileen Armagh was concerned; but that young lady was always ready with a check to her mate. "Thank you, Mrs.
"I guess Tave's got his hands too full at Champo to remember what's told him; what with the little girl an' Romanzo no offence, Colonel." He looked apologetically at the Colonel who waved his hand with an airiness that disposed at once of the idea of any feeling on his part in regard to family revelations.
Octavius nodded shortly; "And as for Romanzo there's no telling where he will end; even Ann and Hannah are infected." "What do you mean, Champney?" She was laughing now. "Just wait till I run in and get the mail for us both, and I'll tell you; it's my confession." He sprang out, ran up the steps and disappeared for a moment. He reappeared thrusting some letters into his pocket.
Van Ostend told him she had applied to him for some working position for Romanzo in the Flamsted office, and not in vain; he was about to be put in as pay-master. As he drove slowly up the highroad towards The Gore, he saw the stone-cutters' sheds stretching dim and gray in the moonlight along the farther shore.
Googe's funds the purchase money of the quarry lands had been withdrawn nine months previous; but this, they ascertained later, had been done with her full consent and knowledge. Romanzo was summoned with the Company's books to the New York office. The Colonel seemed to his friends to have aged ten years in seven days.
He told her frankly that if Romanzo Caukins was led astray in the future it would be through her carryings-on; at which Aileen looked so dumbfoundered that Octavius at once perceived his mistake, and retreated weakly from his position by telling her if she wanted to dance like that, she'd better dance before him who understood her and her intentions.
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