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She dismissed forthwith all fears she had entertained regarding Wotherspoon's prediction that "among the features of the dinner would be a lifelike imitation of a towboat skipper swallowing his knife." He followed Mrs. Van Vleck's leads in conversation, and once responded with crisp cleverness to a gay remark addressed to him by a girl across the table.
"I feared that incident at the table Reggie Wotherspoon's behavior, I mean, might have upset you. Of course you know he meant nothing by it. We all understand how he hates to be beaten in an argument. Really he admires you which is well for him, I can assure you."
But if he lives, there was that in his eyes and in his presence which tells me that Mahomet the son of Abdallah for that was his name will testify in some noteworthy fashion to the faith that is in him." Jan. 3. This affair of White and Wotherspoon's accounts proves to be a gigantic task. There are twenty thick ledgers to be examined and checked. Who would be a junior partner?
Nor did he move when Professor Wotherspoon's voice made the next announcement. 'In Senior Greek, the first prize is taken by Bruno Leathwaite Chilvers. 'Then I suppose Peak comes second, muttered Buckland. So it proved. Summoned to receive the inferior prize, Godwin Peak, his countenance harsher than before, his eyes cast down, moved ungracefully to the estrade.
"On the other hand," he goes on he was working himself into a sort of fit "if the constable's head goes on swelling, and old Wotherspoon's liver gets worse, I've got to be prepared for a month without the option. That is, if I am fool enough " He had left both the doors open, which in the daytime we generally do, our chambers being at the top. Miss Dorton that's Mr.
"It is not likely, sir, that he divulged that!" "He? No! But fate fortune the unrolling course of things plain Providence whatever you choose to call it seems at times quite below or above that reticence which we others so naturally prize and exhibit!" "You'll oblige me, sir, by not speaking in riddles." The irony dropped from Mr. Wotherspoon's tone. He faced the business squarely.
"May I ask how he learned it?" "The laird of Glenfernie, who had been in the Low Countries, told him. Apparently Glenfernie had acquaintances, agents, who traced it out for him that you had sailed from Dunkirk for Beauly Firth, under the name of Robert Bonshaw." "So he was there, pacing the beach," thought Ian. He lifted his glass and drank Mr. Wotherspoon's very good wine. That gentleman went on.
I shall be obliged for any information you may have that I have not." Mr. Wotherspoon's sharp blue eyes seemed to consider it. He drummed on the table. "I am a much older man than you, Captain Rullock, and an old adviser of your family. Perhaps I may speak without offense? That subject of quarrel, now, between you and the laird of Glenfernie " The other made a movement, impatient and imperious.
'Admire the elegant languor of Wotherspoon, he remarked, indicating the Professor of Greek. 'Watch him for a moment, and you'll see him glance contemptuously at old Plummer. He can't help it; they hate each other. 'But why? whispered the girl, with timid eagerness. 'Oh, it began, they say, when Plummer once had to take one of Wotherspoon's classes; some foolery about a second aorist.
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