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It was Oliver Saffren as I like to think of him who helped me to my feet and wiped my face with his handkerchief, and when that one was ruined, brought others from his bag and stanched the wounds gladly received, in the service of his wife. "I will remember " he said, and his voice broke. "These are the memories which Keredec says make a man good. I pray they will help to redeem me."
Yet here they are ha! forever!" "But it doesn't look like sunshine," said Oliver Saffren hesitatingly, stating a disconcerting but incontrovertible truth; "it only seems to look like it because isn't it because it's so much brighter than the rest of the picture? I doubt if paint CAN look like sunshine." He turned from the sketch, caught Keredec's gathering frown, and his face flushed painfully.
I thought so!" she exclaimed breathlessly. "I knew there was something serious underneath. It's about Mr. Saffren?" "It is serious indeed, I fear," I said, and turning to my own easel, began to get my traps together. "I'll tell you the little I know, because I want you to tell Mrs.
I shudder to recall how largely my own performances partook of the grotesque. Responsive in kind to either a talkative mood or a silent one, always gentle in manner, and always unobtrusively melancholy, Saffren never took the initiative, though now and then he asked a question about some rather simple matter which might be puzzling him.
If I had ever known Larrabee Harman, if, instead of the two strange glimpses I had caught of him, I had been familiar with his gesture, walk, intonation even, perhaps, if I had ever heard his voice the truth might have come to me long ago. Larrabee Harman! "Oliver Saffren" was Larrabee Harman.
I had not meant to deliver my information quite so abruptly, but there was no help for it now, and I repeated the statement, giving him a terse account of my two encounters with the rattish youth, and adding: "He seemed to be certain that 'Oliver Saffren' is an assumed name, and he made a threatening reference to the laws of France." The effect upon Keredec was a very distinct pallor.
Oliver Saffren had come in from the road and was crossing to the gallery steps. He lifted his hat and gave me a quick word of greeting as he passed, and at the sight of his flushed and happy face my riddle was solved for me. Amazing as the thing was, I had no doubt of the revelation.
"How much do you like Mr. Ward?" "He's an old friend. I suppose I like my old friends in about the same way that other people like theirs." "How much do you like Mr. Saffren I mean Mr. Harman?" "Oh, THAT!" I groaned. "If I could still call him 'Oliver Saffren, if I could still think of him as 'Oliver Saffren, it would be easy to answer. I never was so 'drawn' to a man in my life before.
"I think," said Madame Brossard, "I think one would call her Spanish, but she is very fat, not young, and with a great deal too much rouge " She stopped with an audible intake of breath, staring at my friend's white face. "Eh! it is bad news?" she cried. "And when one has been so ill " Keredec checked her with an imperious gesture. "Monsieur Saffren and I leave at once," he said.
Maybe you think I ain't be'n layin' low over at Dives! Maybe I don't know a few real NAMES in this neighbourhood! Oh, no, MAYBE not!" "You know what the maitre d'hotel told you; nothing more." "How about the name OLIVER SAFFREN?" he cried fiercely, and at last, though I had expected it, I uttered an involuntary exclamation.
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