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Nobody else seems to know anything about her!" she ended triumphantly. "There you go again with insinuations! It's ungenerous, it's unlike you." "Morton Bassett," she went on huskily, "if you took some interest in your own children it would be more to your credit. You blamed me for letting Marian go to the Willings' and then telegraphed for her to come home.
He was assistant something on a nineteenth story downtown, and his scale of living continually crowded his income to the wall. The Willings there were, of course, but two of them had the kind of home which farmers' daughters so envy the heroines of "society" novels. They lived in a showy apartment hotel in the West Fifties, kept a motor-car, and went out for dinner.
"She's visiting the Willings at their place at Whitewater. She's been gone a week." "The Willings? Not those Burton Willings? How did that happen; I don't believe we care to have her visit the Willings." "They are perfectly nice people," she replied defensively, "and Marian knew their daughter at school. Allen Thatcher is in the party, and they're all people we know or know about."
The hotel to which the Willings had retired for repairs was mentioned, and Bassett resolved to go to Chicago and bring Marian home. The best available train passed Waupegan Station at midnight, and he sat alone on his veranda that evening with anger against Marian still hot in his heart. He had yet to apprise Mrs.
It happened there at the Willings'. You know I think I loved her from the very first time I saw her! It's the beautifullest thing that ever came into my life. You don't know how happy I am: it's the kind of happiness that makes you want to cry. Oh, you don't know; nobody could ever know!" Dan rose and paced the floor, while Allen stood watching him eagerly and pouring his heart out.
He had telegraphed Marian to come home without eliciting a reply, and the next day he found in a Chicago newspaper a spirited and much-beheadlined account of the smashing of the Willings' automobile in a collision. It seemed that they had run into Chicago for a day's shopping and had met with this misadventure on one of the boulevards. The Willings' chauffeur had been seriously injured.
Before the Revolution there had been visiting or breaking of bread with the Galloways, Dulaneys, Carrolls, Calverts, Jenifers, Edens, Ringgolds, and Tilghmans of Maryland, the Penns, Cadwaladers, Morrises, Shippens, Aliens, Dickinsons, Chews, and Willings of Pennsylvania, and the De Lanceys and Bayards of New York.
I saw that Durham was playing her professor of mathematics on first base, and asked him if there wasn't anyone in the faculty who could take Willings's place. Willings is used up, as you can see. Tom said there was no one unless " Harris paused and grinned "unless it was Curly. He didn't know whether you could play or not.
The Willings may not be desirable companions for her, but she has been their guest, and the motor run to Chicago was only an incident of the visit. We ought to be grateful that Marian wasn't hurt." "Oh, you think so! You don't know that her mother had written for her to come home, and that I had telegraphed her." "When did you telegraph her?" asked Sylvia, standing her ground.
It was Willings, the surgeon he had known at Chickamauga, and Crittenden called him by name. "No, I'm not dead I'm not going to die." Willings gave an exclamation of surprise. "Well, there's grit for you," said the other surgeon. "We'll take him next." "Straighten him out there, won't you?" said Crittenden, gently, as the two men stooped for him.
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