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There were times and occasions when she had found it safer not to press her maternal authority too far, and the look that she received was first notice from Virginia that such an occasion had arrived. The motor began to thunder, Wiley threw in the clutch, and with a speed that was startling, they whipped a sudden circle and went bubbling away down the road.
Well, I was up against it, when Morrison, the hotel man, told me that there was a showman in town, and perhaps I might get something out of him. "I hunted him up. He was a typical showman. Big fellow, large as a Noah's ark, dressed like a sunset, and loud as an eighteen-inch gun." "I saw the fellow in Soldier Butte the other day. He was talking to Wiley Creviss in the bank," said Ted.
Is this the First National? This is Holman, out at the Paymaster. Mr. Blount is here and, as I'm closing my account with him " "No! No!" cried Blount in a panic, but Wiley went on with his talk. "Yes," he said, "the check is for twenty-two thousand, two eighty-three, sixty-one. Will you please set that amount aside to meet the payment on this check? All right, Mr. Blount, here's the bank."
Without warning or justification, without even giving him a chance, she had sneaked up and potted him like a rabbit; and now, as men came running to witness his shame, she gloried in her badness. "Aha-ah!" she jeered, coming back to stand over him and Wiley reached for a stone. "You old she-cat," he burst out, "you say another word to me and I'll bounce this rock off your head!"
"But was he in your employ at the time of the shooting, and did you tell him to drive off all comers? Because " "No! My dear boy, of course not! But come over to my office; I want to talk with you, Wiley." The banker beamed upon him affectionately and, shaking out a white handkerchief, wiped the sudden sweat from his brow; and then Wiley leapt to the ground.
"Well, I'll be bound!" he puffed and gazed at the quit-claim ruefully. The tables were all set when Wiley re-entered the dining-room from which he had retreated once before in such haste, and Virginia was there and waiting, though her smile was a trifle uncertain.
Angie, her face aflame, stood in the doorway. "On the contrary!" Wiley was the first to recover himself. "A delightful surprise, my dear Angelica! Had I known you were coming directly home from the opera I would have offered my services." "I I thought you were going on to the Judsons' dance," Willa stammered. "Evidently." Angie sneered, looking from one to the other of them.
The governor told me all about it, he was so wrought up he couldn't keep it to himself." "Not Willa Murdaugh!" repeated Thode in stunned accents. "And Starr Wiley brought forward the proof? You'd better tell me all about it, Win, now that you've started."
The drivers slept and had breakfast and supper at the Billings house, a mile down river, but for several years Mrs. Wiley had furnished the noon meal, sending it down piping hot on the stroke of twelve. The boys always said that up or down the whole length of the Saco there was no such cooking as the Wileys', and much of this praise was earned by Rose's serving.
You'd better I saw a man back there!" "It's my watchman," answered Wiley. "I keep him to guard the mill. But what are you doing up here?" "No! It wasn't! It was Stiff Neck George! And he had something heavy in his hand! You'd better go and watch him!" She was struggling in his arms, her breath hot against his cheek, fear and rage in every word, but he crushed her roughly to his side.
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