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As he probably expected, her indignation was thoroughly aroused. He took his castigation and dismissal meekly, and found some interest in the ensuing negotiations toward reconciliation. No one knew better than he how to sue for forgiveness. But he was quite satisfied to have implanted the idea, for Ben Sansome was content with slow coral-insect progress.
I've spoken to the manager about dinner for five." He turned to Nan with brightening interest. "Guess what I saw on the bill of fare! Grizzly bear steak! Think of that! I ordered some." Sansome groaned comically. "What's the matter?" inquired Keith. "Did you ever try it before? Tough, stringy, unfit for human consumption." But Keith was fascinated by the name of the thing.
"Oh, I'm glad you're here!" she cried. "This is kind! How is he? Where is he?" Morrell had no easy day with Ben Sansome. He had been forced to spend the whole of it with his protege, save for the hour he had devoted to seeing Keith off on the piratical expedition. It was a terrible bore. In turn he had played on the youth's pique, the supposed insult to his manhood, his desire for the woman.
"If those are really meant for Morrell's initials, what was he doing here?" "Mrs. Morrell came out with me," put in Nan. "Jake told me there was to be a supper party later," said Krafft. "It's clear enough," contributed Mrs. Sherwood. "The whole thing is a plot to murder or do worse. I've been through '50 and '51, and I know." "I can't believe yet that Sansome " said Keith doubtfully.
She turned to him with a new decision. "I know you are dying to go see what is going on," she said. "You simply must not stay here any longer on my account. I insist! Indeed, I think I'll go to bed." But Ben Sansome, his manner becoming almost caressingly protective, would not listen. "It isn't safe to leave you alone," he told her. "All the worst elements of the city will be out.
"As a matter of fact," observed Morrell, reseating himself, and speaking as though there had been no interruption, "I imagine you have little to fear from that." He went into the street a little later, his vision somewhat blurred, but his mind clear. Sansome, by now very pot-valiant, swaggered alongside. "By the way, Ben," said Morrell suddenly, "I hope you go armed these are bad times."
When the final grading scheme of the city was adopted in 1853, and work went on, the water front of the city was where Clay Street now is, between Montgomery and Sansome Streets.
Keith never distinguished him from thin air unless others were present. Keith had always in his eye a gleam of contempt which, perhaps, Sansome acknowledged, was natural; but it was a contempt with a dash of amusement in it, and that galled. Still Ben was satisfied. He gained the distinction of having discovered the epicurean value of sand- dabs. The Sherwoods founded the family of that name.
A fresh-water lagoon, or lake, was near the present corner of Montgomery and Sacramento, and an Indian temescal, or sweat-house, beside it. The bay came up to Montgomery Street then, with five feet of water at Sansome, and mudflats to the east.
They sat in the lamplight opposite each other, occasionally exchanging a word or so. Sansome was content and enjoying himself. He conceived that the stars were fighting for him, and he was enjoying the hour. Nan, a prey alternately to almost uncontrollable fits of anxiety and flaming resentment, could hardly sit still. About midnight Gringo pricked up his ears and barked sharply.
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