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I want you to know that I intend to marry Miss Rossmore as soon as she will consent to become my wife, that is," he added with bitterness, "if I can succeed in overcoming her prejudices against my family " Ryder, Sr. laughed contemptuously. "Prejudices against a thousand million dollars?" he exclaimed sceptically.
"Is that the Red Dog over there, where the man is sweeping sawdust out to the road?" She had crossed to the door and opened it, and her host approached, peering over her shoulder. "Yes'm, that's Bill Ryder himself." "I would like to talk to him," Willa announced. "I want to ask him some questions about the early days here."
It is Wall Street," he added bitterly, "that has crushed all sentiment out of me." Shirley laughed nervously, almost hysterically. "I want to laugh and I feel like crying," she cried. "What will Jefferson say how happy he will be!" "How are you going to tell him?" inquired Ryder uneasily. "I shall tell him that his dear, good father has relented and "
These children, I knew, were speaking of me, though I could not hear all they said, for the officer he was Colonel Ryder laughed and said, "Oh, he'll be in good company. I picked up another fellow in the woods. He says his name is Jasper Goodrum." Then she said something in a low tone, something that caused her brother to regard me with considerable interest. "Is that so?" he exclaimed.
Through other open doors drifted the exasperating nasal twang of Cairene music, and idly pausing, Ryder could see above the red fezes and turbans that topped the cross-legged audiences the dark, sleek, slowly-revolving body of some desert dancing girl.
Ryder, who was again immersed in her tradespeople bills, and left the room, escorted by Jefferson, who accompanied her downstairs and on to the street where Senator Roberts was waiting for her in the open victoria. The senator greeted with unusual cordiality the young man whom he still hoped to make his son-in- law. "Come and see us, Jefferson," he said. "Come to dinner any evening.
But it is these several painters I speak of, Martin, Ryder, and Fuller, who figure for us as the originators of American indigenous painting. They will not be copied for they further nothing beyond themselves.
Ryder was the man who had recommended the investment in Alaskan stock. Of course, why did he not think of it before? He recollected that at the time he had been puzzled at receiving so much stock and he had mentioned it to Ryder, adding that the secretary had told him it was customary. Oh, why had he not kept the secretary's letter? But Ryder would certainly remember it.
Ryder had left the ballroom some little time before the intermission, but reappeared at the supper-table. The spread was worthy of the occasion, and the guests did full justice to it. When the coffee had been served, the toastmaster, Mr. Solomon Sadler, rapped for order. He made a brief introductory speech, complimenting host and guests, and then presented in their order the toasts of the evening.
Outside the rain was now coming down in torrents and the lights that everywhere dotted the great city only paled when every few moments a vivid flash of lightning rent the enveloping gloom. Ryder and Senator Roberts went down in the elevator together. When they reached the street the senator inquired in a low tone: "Do you think they really believed Rossmore was influenced in his decision?"
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