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They had obeyed her eyes, and yet the look of appeal was not quenched. She came to New York with no plan to stay. But she did stay, and she left her footprints in many lives, most deeply in the life of Jim Dyckman. Miss Kedzie Thropp had never seen Fifth Avenue or a yacht or a butler or a glass of champagne or an ocean or a person of social prominence. She wanted to see them.
They look as if their name would be Thropp." Adna made the apologies glad tidings being manifestly out of place. "Hope we 'ain't put you out, daughter. We thought we'd s'prise you. We went to the fact'ry. Man at the door says you wasn't workin' there no more. Give us this address. Right nice place here, ain't it? Looks like a nice class of folks lived here."
The possibility of getting Mr. and Mrs. Thropp out of town soon was the one bright thought in Dyckman's mind. He felt compelled to say: "Then let us have the ceremony, by all means. We shall have to wait awhile, I suppose, for decency's sake." "Decency!" said Mrs. Thropp, managerially. "My Kedzie hadn't lived with the man for a long while. Nobody but us knows that she ever did live with him.
Thropp emitted a roar of scandalized virtue and would have attacked the young men with her fists if her husband, who should have attacked them in her stead, had not clung to her, murmuring: "Now, momma, don't get excited. You young fellers better vamoose quick. I can't holt her very long."
This would serve a double purpose: Kedzie would get to see more millionairishness, and the rebuke would be more more "scatting." It is hard even to think a word you cannot pronounce. Kedzie gained one thing further from the pictures a new name. She had been musing incessantly on choosing one. She had always hated both Thropp and Kedzie, and had counted on marriage to reform her surname.
Thropp made splendid witnesses for their child and the old mother's tears melted a jury that had never seen her weep for meaner reasons. When Charity reached the stand the case against her was so complete that all her bravery was gone. She felt herself a fool for having brought the ordeal on herself. She took not even self-respect with her to the chair of torture.
Noxon's pool. At length Kedzie revealed the horrible fact that her real name was Kedzie Thropp. He laughed aloud. He was so tickled by her babyish remorse that he made her say it again. He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair." "That's one of the reasons I wanted you to marry me," he said, "so that I could change your horrible name."
They gave the dialogue of the Thropps in many versions, all emphasizing what is known as "the human note." Every one of them gave due emphasis to the historic fact that Kedzie Thropp had been spanked. The boarding-house was shaken from attic to basement by the news. The Thropps read the papers. They were astounded and enraged at gaining publicity for such a deed.
Thropp took this to mean that he did not dare confess the scandals of his people. She knew, of course, from reading, that rich people are very wicked, but she did want to know some of the details. Jim refused to make disclosures. He was wakened from his coma by Mrs. Thropp's casual remark: "Say, Jimsy, how do folks do, on East here?
She got along famously with the men, but their manner was not quite satisfactory, either. There was a corrosive something in their flattery, a menace in their approach. There were the horrible experiences when Mrs. Dyckman called on Mrs. Thropp and the worse burlesque when Mrs. Thropp called on Mrs. Dyckman. The servants had a glorious time over it, and Kedzie overheard Mrs.
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