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It was so easy, and there was so little chance of being hit back. Besides, it gave you an agreeable feeling of importance, after having been so long ignored or patronized yourself. That's why, Mr. Wentz," the words sounded sibilant through her shut teeth, "you're going to honor my check to-day now or suspend." Wentz listened dumbfounded.
That is parallel to my case where love made Mabilla speak. It was love for her husband, to be sure; but she had then no children. Mr. Wentz gets no evidence of fairy-wives from Ireland, but a great number out of Wales. Einion also seems to have met the King of the Wood.
He spoke in a sad, bitter tone which caused both women to look at him wonderingly. Joe had to them ever been full of surprises; never until then had they seen evidences of sadness in his face. A moment's silence ensued. Mrs. Wentz gazed lovingly at the children who were playing with the trinkets; while Kate mused over the young man's remark, and began studying his, half-averted face.
"Oh, our friendly relations, and all that," he replied more easily. "Aren't you taking a great deal for granted, Mr. Wentz?" The timbre of her voice the deadly coldness of it made him start. He had the sensation of an icicle being drawn slowly the length of his back. "Why, I I don't know," he stammered. "Am I?"
Wentz cursed the Fate that had promoted him from his washing machine, and this was one of them. Neifkins, hunched in a leather chair in the banker's office, had an obstinate look on his sunburned face. "I'd give about half I'm worth if that was your stock goin' out," said Wentz, as he reseated himself at his desk. Neifkins grunted. "I heard you the first time you said that."
Wentz read it without lifting his head as it lay before him. He continued to stare at it as though he had been stunned, while Kate with her eyes fixed upon his face thrummed lightly on the counter with her finger tips. He had pictured something like this a thousand times, yet now that it actually had come he seemed as little prepared to meet it as if it were a crushing and complete surprise.
He lifted his head as though with an effort. "Will you step here, please?" His voice sounded thick. The cashier quickly withdrew while Wentz arose slowly and opened the gate. As Kate sank slowly into the depths of a leather covered chair, the much-discussed coat, a fitting garment for a princess, with its ample cut and voluminous unstinted hem, swirled gracefully about her feet.
It was too late to start for Prouty that day, but she would leave early in the morning, so she went on applying a solution of permanganate of potassium to the wound and sprinkling it with a healing powder while she conjectured as to what Wentz might want of her. In her usual work Kate found an outlet for the nervous tension under which she was still laboring.
The World's Greatest Prestidigitator had dropped the egg which he intended taking from the ear of Governor Sudds where it had broken into the ample lap of Mrs. Vernon Wentz of the White Hand Laundry. The cold, however, promptly put a quietus upon their merriment and they scuttled past, bent on getting out of it as quickly as possible. There were two customers for cigars, and the Toomeys.
I put up a good fight for Lewis Wentz not that I cared two straws for him, now that I was going to have an automobile of my own, but just to head pa off from grasping for more. I didn't want to be eaten out of house and home, you know, and I guess I am too much pa's daughter to surrender more than I could help.
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