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The clerk summoned to her aid could only inform her that her father had given up his room and had left the hotel late at night. She could get no further clew. She telegraphed at once to Acredale and returned to the Spragues, not daring to breathe her apprehensions. Yes, her father was plainly keeping away from her. He meant to persist in his savage vengeance. What had he learned?
"Well, we won't talk of it. I suppose you are with the Spragues?" "Yes; I shall remain with them until this is ended." "What if I should tell you to come home with me?" "I should, of course, obey you if you commanded me. But before doing so I should have to put my statement in legal shape that is, swear to it, and give my address to the court that I might be regularly summoned."
Webster remarked, that he was once present when this case was stated, and argued by the two brothers, and was much interested in the discussion of the celebrated pie case. The Spragues of Melrose, formerly North Malden, were one of the old families. They descended from Ralph Sprague, who settled in Charlestown in 1629. The first one, who came to Melrose about the year 1700, was named Phineas.
But Senator Sprague was too firmly enshrined in the loyalty of the district to be overcome by the parvenu's manoeuvres or his money. Hatred of the Spragues became something like a passion in Boone. Sarcasms and disparagement leveled at his social and political pretensions he attributed to the Senator and his family.
If her father had suddenly adopted the rôle of the stern parent in novels and ordered her to her chamber, Kate would have regarded it as a joke, and felt rather relieved that she could thus escape the pledge given to the Spragues.
I know whom to address, but I must be where I can use trusted agents. I have no money. You can, I hope, provide me with that, or the Spragues if you can't." He spoke with a flush deepening on his face, and arose with something like vigor. "Ample means you shall have any sum you need," Kate said, handing him a well-filled purse. "Good I have one or two articles in my room.
Then her mind, tortured by newly awakened doubts, ran back over the events leading to the rupture with the Spragues. She groaned at the retrospect. It was injustice that had displaced Jack in the command of the company. It was injustice that had marked her father's conduct in the Perley feud. Grief is a logician of very direct methods. Its clarifying processes work like light in darkness.
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