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They danced again, and in the handclapping that followed the first number he turned to find the Governor, calm and with no marks of his escapade upon him, bowing before Miss Seebrook. "Really, I must break in! Just a little fragment of this waltz! More capricious and jazzy measures have their day but the waltz endures forever! Don't frown at me that way, Comly!
"If you can forgive me," she said; and she laid her hands upon his shoulders, lightly as though by their touch she were investing him with her hope in life renewed and strengthened, and giving pledge that they would walk together thereafter to the end of their days. During his convalescence the matter of the sixty thousand dollars taken from Seebrook at Cornford troubled the Governor greatly.
Complicity in the robbery of Seebrook was as nothing compared with the haunting fear that the man he had shot in the Congdon house had died from the wound. Unable to determine this question he was floundering in a veritable sea of crimes. The Governor was undressing with provoking indifference to his companion's perturbation. "Sleep, lad, sleep!
Seebrook and I are really here on business, but we've been delayed and may have another day's time to kill. We'd be glad to play around with you." "It's most lamentable," replied the Governor, "that we've got to run away tomorrow. It's now the hour when ghosts walk but we shall see you in the morning."
Baring retired after the dinner had been served, and the Governor, in cozy accord with his cigar, remarked suddenly: "Odd; you might almost say singular! I've crossed old man Congdon's trail again! You recall him the old boy we left to the tender mercies of Seebrook and Walters?" "Yes; go on!" exclaimed Archie so impatiently that the Governor eyed him in surprise.
"There's a thorough man for you!" exclaimed the Governor proudly when Archie supplied some dates in French history for which Miss Seebrook fumbled. They continued their talk over coffee served in the garden. When the music began Seebrook and Walters recalled a bridge engagement and the Governor announced that he must look up an old friend who lived in Cornford.
Miss Seebrook was having coffee in her room, her father explained in response to Archie's polite inquiries. "We're hoping to get away this afternoon," he continued. "It will take only a few minutes to transact our business when the man I'm waiting for appears; but he's an uncertain quantity, and there's no telling when he'll show up.
I spent thirty-five dollars last night in telephoning trying to find out what's become of my son and his family and I got nothing for my money nothing!" Seebrook and Walters expressed their sympathy in mild tones that roused the old gentleman to greater fury. "Can a whole family be obliterated and no trace left behind?
As the various pieces were hustled into the office he enumerated them in an audible tone as though inviting the cooperation of all the loungers in making an inventory of his effects. When this had been concluded Seebrook stepped up and accosted the newcomer. "Mr. Congdon, I am very glad to see you. I hope you are not worn out by your drive." "Worn out!" snapped the little man.
Whereupon Archie bought the stock from Eliphalet and sent it with ten thousand dollars in cash to Seebrook, enclosing in the packet he confided to Briggs for delivery a note explaining that the theft had been a mere bit of pleasantry for which the guilty person offered the sincerest apologies. Before he left the North the Governor made generous provision for all who had shared his fortunes.
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