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I told him you was out in the boat and would be here 'fore you went up home." "All right, Tave." He opened it; read it by the light of the lantern. "I've got to go back to New York it's a matter of business.
"Is there any one Aunt Meda ever did love, Tave? From all I remember to have heard, when I was a boy, she was always bound up pretty thoroughly in herself." "Did she ever love any one? Well she did; that was her husband, Louis Champney, who loved you as his own son. And it's my belief that's the reason you don't get your rights. She was jealous as the devil of every word he spoke to you."
I've been coming to a decision the last two days. I'm going straight to Almeda, Tave, and ask her, beg her, if I have to, on my bended knees to save my boy she has more than enough you know, Tave, what Champney should have had " Octavius nodded emphatically and found his voice. "Don't I know? You may bet your life I know more'n I've ever told, Aurora.
Even Alec, accustomed to the singularly ugly etchings of Paris viewed from its chief railways, was completely disillusioned by these drab adumbrations of commerce and squalor. The Tave was no longer blue, but dull brown with the mud of recent rain. Not even the inhabitants were attractive. They were not garbed as Serbs, but wore ungainly costumes that might have passed unnoticed in the Bowery.
"Now don't go for to trying any such experiment as that, Aileen; you'll fret the cow besides mussing your clean dress." "I don't care; it'll wash. Now, please, do let me, Tave, just this once." "I tell you the cow won't give down her milk if you take hold of her. She'll get all in a fever having a girl fooling round her." There followed the rattle of pails and a stool.
"She's acted mad ever since I told her Champney had to go back that night and tend to business; guess she'd set her heart on his making a match on that yachting cruise well, 't would be all in the family, seeing there's Champney blood in the Van Ostends, good blood too, there's no better," he added emphatically. "Oh, Tave, you're always blowing the Champneys' horn "
I paid fifty thousand for your ranch as soon as I found you had no title. I had just about that much income accumulated at my banker's while I've been herding sheep down here, so it was almost like picking the thing up on a bargain-counter for a penny. There's another little surplus of unearned increment piling up there, 'Tave.
Octavius helped her to her feet; but for Aileen's arm around her she would have fallen again. "Take me home, Tave." She spoke in a weak voice. "I will, Aurora," he answered promptly, soothingly, although his hands trembled as he led her to a sofa; "I'll just hitch up the pair in the carryall and Hannah'll ride up with us, won't you, Hannah?" "To be sure, to be sure.
Last Sunday Miss Reed thrilled me for an hour with superstition and Cassandra-like prophecy. Don't things ever happen accidentally here, and without warning?" "I mean," returned the young lady with her usual practical directness, "that Tave Reed remembers a good many horrid things about the wah that she ought to forget, but don't.
"Oh, don't don't! I can't bear it dear old Tave " he groaned rather than spoke; the blood mounted to his temples, but his friend proved merciless. "And there's Luigi Poggi! I don't know but he will make you a proposition, when he knows you are at home, to enter into partnership with him and young Caukins the Colonel's fourth eldest. Champney, he wants to atone he has told me so "
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