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Toni's eyes took on a different expression. He looked at his mother. She did not see him and went on imploring in the midst of her tears: Oh Lord, my soul yearns for thine aid In this dark vale of weeping; For Thee I have waited, hoped and prayed, Assured of thy safe keeping. Suddenly Toni threw himself on his mother and sobbed aloud.
Rose, you can help Owen no end! You must take it down for him. You could easily scribble it off and then type it out afterwards, couldn't you?" Into Toni's eyes flashed a light of pure joy. "Oh, do you think I could! I'd do anything anything to help Owen," she said eagerly. "It wouldn't be like his articles, full of quotations and things that want verifying, would it?
But God knows I'm punished for it now." Again he broke off abruptly, only to go on again hastily. "I own I was mistaken in my reading of Toni's character. I had no idea she was capable of this sort of sacrifice." "You never saw into the depths of her soul. If you had " "I should have realized what she was.
Revenge for Toni's death being the one motive that inspired him, he had followed the procession, watched from the bushes till the other two dancers had left Soma's double with us on the top of the table, and had then climbed quietly up and knifed the officiating wizard while that person was exhorting the stone centipede to make a good job of Holman and me.
But I told her, at the same time, that I should never do it again. I promised to help her in little ways if the allowance I made her was insufficient; but I pointed out to her that my income wouldn't stand the drain of huge payments like these; and she cried pitifully and promised, solemnly, that she would never play for money again." "And she did?" Toni's interest in the story was her excuse.
During the long journey she had said very little, shyness enveloping her as in a mantle; but when the train began to run along the sea shore, so that the whole expanse of ocean lay spread before the window, Toni's face changed, her eyes sparkled, and she turned to Owen with a spontaneous expression of delight.
She had never liked being ousted from her position, as would-be helper; but Owen knew or fancied he did the exact value of her aid; and after all his work was too important for him to run the risk of spoiling it by any lack of efficiency in his helpers. "I wish you'd leave Miss Loder's name out of the question," he said at last, and his tone struck coldly on Toni's excited ear.
Afterwards he told himself that he should have known better than to allow his wife to take advantage of Toni's unworldliness; but at the moment he was only too glad to find Eva apparently sincere in her liking for the simple-hearted Toni; and assuming, naturally, that Owen did not disapprove of the growing intimacy, he watched the affair with a gratitude made natural by his intense pity for his wife.
With this Toni's hands were bound behind him, and his feet were also secured. "That's number one, Roebuck," laughed Arnold Baxter, turning to the man who had thus far remained silent. "Tom Rover?" asked the man laconically. "Yes." "A bright-looking chap." "Oh, he's bright enough," growled Baxter senior. "But it won't help him any," put in Dan, bound to say something.
"Well, he's going to Sutton, three miles from Willowhurst, and I truly believe it's because he wants to be near you!" She had succeeded in arousing Toni's interest at last. "Leonard Dowson? Do you mean the dentist? But what on earth will he do in Sutton?" "Look at people's teeth, I suppose," returned Miss Gibbs practically.
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