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"Don't be frightened, Miss Temple Barholm. All you've got to do is to answer questions," she said. "But I might say things that would be wrong things that would harm him." "No, you mightn't, Miss Temple Barholm. He's not done anything that could bring harm on him." The Duke of Stone, who had seated himself in T. Tembarom's favorite chair, which occupied a point of vantage, seemed to Mr.
And I'll raise your wages. What do you say? Is it fixed?" "I'm here, sir, to do anything you require," Pearson answered distressedly; "but I'm afraid " Tembarom's face changed. A sudden thought had struck him. "I'll tell you one thing you can do," he said; "you can valet that friend of mine." "Mr. Strangeways, sir?" "Yes. I've got a notion he wouldn't mind it." He was not joking now.
He at least adjusted himself with agility. Hutchinson was of course lumbering. Lacking the support of T. Tembarom's presence and incongruity, he himself was the incongruous feature.
He did not look particularly pleased, though he extended his hand and shook Tembarom's politely. He was rigorously endeavoring to conceal that he found himself called upon to make the best of an extremely bad job. Hutchinson started forward, resting his hands on his knees and glaring with ill-suppressed excitement. "What's that for?" Tembarom said. He felt rather like a fool.
"I am sure," she burst forth, "I feel quite sure that you will understand and won't think it indelicate; but I had thought so often that I should like to have a little boy if I had married," she added in hasty tribute to propriety. Tembarom's eyes rested on her in a thoughtfulness openly touched with affection. He put out his hand and patted hers two or three times in encouraging sympathy.
She is quite comfortably off in her way, and does not need parish care. I wish I had seen Miss Hutchinson." "I wish she had seen you," was Tembarom's answer. Miss Alicia reflected. "She must be very clever to have such sensible views," she remarked. If he had remained in New York, and there had been no question of his inheriting Temple Barholm, the marriage would have been most suitable.
Grimby broke out. "Isn't that going rather far? You surely don't think " "Mr. Tembarom's chief characteristic was that he was a practical and direct person. He would do what he had to do in exactly that businesslike manner. The inquiries I have been making have been as to the whereabouts of places in which a superfluous relative might be placed without attracting attention."
Galton considered him, scrutinizing keenly his tough, long-built body, his sharp, eager, boyish face, and especially his companionable grin. "We'll let it go at that," he decided. "You'll make friends up in Harlem, and you won't find it hard to pick up news. We can at least try it." Tembarom's heart jumped into his throat again, and he swallowed it once more.
"I didn't believe it myself till I'd paid my board two weeks and bought a suit of clothes with it," was Tembarom's answer, and he chuckled as he made it. But Tummas did believe it. This, after he had recovered from the shock, became evident. The curiosity in his face intensified itself; his eagerness was even vaguely tinged with something remotely resembling respect.
"A great deal of careful research and inquiry has finally led me here. I am compelled to believe I have followed the right clue, but I must ask you a few questions. Your name is not really Tembarom, is it?" Hutchinson looked at Tembarom sharply. "Not Tembarom? What does he mean, lad?" Tembarom's grin was at once boyish and ashamed. "Well, it is in one way," he answered, "and it isn't in another.
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