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That means a net gain in the Red Leary trust fund of ten thousand dollars. Seebrook had the stuff in the collar tray of his trunk. As the trunk was otherwise empty and the lock a special one that gave me a bit of trouble he's not likely to bother with it until old man Congdon turns up to close the stock transaction.
But it will do you no harm to indulge in a little affair now and then on the way; merely practice at the approach shot, you know, to keep your hand in. You are undoubtedly thinking of your beloved with a new tenderness because you found Miss Seebrook kind. Such, lad, is the way of love, true love, the love that never dies."
Congdon dropped off the earth after she left Bailey Harbor. She and her children motored out of Bailey and haven't yet reached their house in New York, for which she was presumably bound. By Jove, it's woozzy the way these Congdons keep bobbing up! I'd give something handsome to know how the old chap and Seebrook came out at Cornford.
Putney Congdon, was stopping in the house. "Mind you, I have no reason to believe he is here, but I've been asking for him everywhere along the road." Assured that Mr. Putney Congdon was not in the inn and hadn't been there within the recollection of the office staff, the senior Congdon exploded violently upon Seebrook and Walters.
Miss Seebrook was the most obvious of sentimentalists and Archie thought instantly how different she was from Isabel. But being thrown in the company of any girl made possible the concrete comparison of Isabel with the rest of womankind very greatly to Isabel's advantage.
"Put out the lights and get you to your couch!" the Governor muttered drowsily. The man certainly wore his crimes lightly. He was sound asleep before Archie had got into his pajamas. When they reached the dining-room at ten the next morning they found Seebrook and Walters just finishing breakfast.
"We've certainly had the best of you, papa! It has been a wonderful evening!" exclaimed Miss Seebrook. "I knew it was going to be a good party," said the Governor warmly. "I regretted every moment I had to spend with my friends in Putnam Street. And yet should auld acquaintance be forgot, you know!" "You were perfectly lovely to that nice old lady and her frightened little granddaughters.
His mind had passed through innumerable phases since he left his sister's house in Washington, and now as he shamelessly flirted with Miss Seebrook he knew himself for an unmoral creature, a degenerate who was all the more dangerous for being able to pass muster among decent folk.
Their party was the merriest in the room, and Archie was aware of envious glances from other tables that were not enlivened by a raconteur so affable and amusing as the Governor. "It's so nice to stumble into a place like this where every one may speak to every one else and be sure, you know!" said Miss Seebrook.
His emphasis on the plural pronoun caused Archie to cringe. "It strikes me as highly amusing that we have unloaded those bills of Leary's on a good sport like Seebrook. As I locked that stuff in his trunk I got to laughing really, I did and a chambermaid roaming the hall must have heard me, for the key rattled in the lock just as I slipped out of the window.
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