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The rush was as unlooked for on Wickersham's part as Wickersham's blow had been by Gordon, and after a moment the lessons of Mike Doherty began to tell, and Gordon was ducking his head and dodging Wickersham's blows; and he began to drive him backward. "By Jove! he knows his business," said Rhodes to himself.
Some one was asking for him, and the next moment the door opened and Squire Rawson stood on the threshold. He looked worn; but his face was serene. Keith's intuition told him why he had come; and the old man did not leave it in any doubt. His greeting was brief. He had gotten to New York only that morning, and had already been to Wickersham's office; but the office was shut.
Bagge wrote General Keith a diplomatic letter eulogistic of the South and of Mr. Wickersham's interest in it, and invited the General to remain on the place for the present as its manager. General Keith sat for some time over that letter, his face as grave as it had ever been in battle. What swept before his mental vision who shall know?
Lancaster vouchsafed no reply. "She is quite mad." "No wonder!" "Ah, yes. What do you think of her?" "That she is Ferdy Wickersham's wife or ought to be." "Ah, yes." Here was a gleam of light. "But she is so insane that very little reliance should be placed on anything that she says. In such instances, you know, women make the most preposterous statements and believe them.
For the rest of the evening Barbara was again a creature of moods so frothy, so evanescent that she swept aside even Wickersham's habit of precision.
When she became a widow she resumed her place with renewed power. And of late Mr. Rimmon had begun to have hope. Now Mr. Rimmon was far from easy in his mind. He knew something of Keith's attention to Mrs. Lancaster; but it had never occurred to him until lately that he might be successful. Wickersham he had feared at times; but Wickersham's habits had reassured him. Mrs.
"She esteems you your friendship and likes you ever so much, and all that." She was speaking rapidly now, her sober eyes on Wickersham's face with an appealing look in them. "And she doesn't want to do anything to to wound you; but I think you ought not to come so often or see her in a way to make people talk and I thought I'd say so to you."
He is on his way here now, and I have hurried ahead to warn you." Wickersham's face, already pale, grew as white as death, for he read conviction in Keith's tone. With an oath he turned to a bell and rang it. "Ring for a cab for me at once," he said to the clerk who appeared. "Have it at my side entrance."
Plume had had something to do with it, and that he could give information on the subject if he would. Mr. Plume had been away from New Leeds for several days about the time of Phrony's departure. "He did that Wickersham's dirty work for him; that is, what he didn't do for himself," declared the young woman.
The mansion had been stripped of its old furniture and pictures soon after General Keith had left there, and the plantation had gone down. Rumor also said that Wickersham's affairs were in a bad way. Certainly the new head of the house gave no sign of it. He opened a yet larger office and began operations on a more extensive scale.
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