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And two days before her month at the bungalow was up, she went, leaving Betty and little Gyp to follow on the last day. Winton, pale and somewhat languid, as men are when they have been cured, found her when he came in from the club. She had put on evening dress, and above the pallor of her shoulders, her sunwarmed face and throat had almost the colour of a nectarine.
So far from Ewen's "position" being of any advantage to Connie, it was Connie who seemed likely to bring the Hoopers into circles of Oxford society where they had till now possessed but the slenderest footing. An invitation to dinner from the Provost of Winton and Mrs. Manson, to "Dr. and Mrs. Hooper, Miss Hooper and Lady Constance Bledlow," to meet an archbishop, had fairly taken Mrs.
Somerville Darrah and his secretary there ahead of him, and he observed that the explosive gentleman who presided over the destinies of the Colorado and Grand River appeared to be in a more than usually volcanic frame of mind. Now Winton, though new to the business of building railroads for the Utah Short Line, was not new to Denver or Colorado.
They were evidently of all classes and ranks originally, but now, and in this country of real measurements, they ranked simply according to the 'man' in them. 'See that handsome, young chap of dissipated appearance? said Craig; 'that's Vernon Winton, an Oxford graduate, blue blood, awfully plucky, but quite gone. When he gets repentant, instead of shooting himself, he comes to Mrs. Mavor. Fact.
"He sounded crazy from the shore," he said. "He didn't know what he was saying, anybody could tell that," I answered him. "What did he do?" Winton asked me. "Oh, he just nearly killed him trying to save him," I said. "Hmph," Winton said. "He'll be all right," I told him. "Most of the fellows here think he's crazy," he said.
But the formalities were studiously ignored, and the two young men were put upon a footing of intimacy and encouraged to come and go as they pleased. Winton took his welcome broadly, as what lover would not? and within a week was spending most of his evenings in the Rosemary this at a time when every waking moment of the day and night was deeply mortgaged to the chance of success.
Do you still think you will be in danger of ossifying?" Adams let the question rest while he asked one of his own. "How do you come to be mixed up in it, Jack? A week ago some one told me you were going to South America to build a railroad in the Andes. What switched you?" Winton shook his head. "Fate, I guess; that and a wire from President Callowell of the Utah offering me this.
We took the road up Rockwood Creek to its head, and crossed the same divide as the road party were going, only farther north, striking the head of Manuka Creek, which we ran down to its junction with Mill's Creek. This we followed to the present site of Winton, which we reached at the end of October.
Feeling that it would hurt her father to learn of it from anyone but herself, she telephoned to tell him she was alone, and asked if she might come to Bury Street and dine with him. Winton had not gone away, because, between Goodwood and Doncaster there was no racing that he cared for; one could not ride at this time of year, so might just as well be in London.
Captain Winton strove unremittingly to keep the channel, though that was not always possible. His good fortune in coming up the stream gave him confidence of making the down trip in safety. Fifteen minutes after expressing this belief to Major Starland, the bow of the yacht suddenly rose several feet, there was a quick slackening of speed and the boat settled to rest.
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