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Some time during the winter the Jamesons had purchased the old Wray place, and we felt that they were to be a permanent feature in our midst. The old Wray house had always been painted white, with green blinds, as were most of our village houses; now it was painted red, with blinds of a darker shade.
Oliver looked at Wraysford; Wraysford looked at Oliver; and then both looked at Loman. The sight of the wretched boy there entreating money of the very fellow who had least reason in all Saint Dominic's to like him, was strange indeed. "Wray," said Oliver, abruptly, after another pause, during which he had evidently made up his mind, "have you any money about you?"
"The penalty should certainly prove efficacious," he observed lightly. "Is not such a penalty for returning, I mean very severe, Mr. Steele?" asked Jocelyn Wray. "That," he laughed, "depends somewhat on the point of view, the criminal's, or society's!" His gaze returned to her; the bright bit of color in her hair again seemed to catch and hold his glance.
"May I ask a question or two?" "Fire away; I'll answer as I please." "Who is the woman on board?" "Mary, you mean? Hobart's wife." "She came from the place on Wray Street last night in an auto?" "Yes; I brought her along myself." "Alone?" "There were two of us, Mark and I why? what are you driving at?" "Just putting some broken threads together. Then Natalie Coolidge is not on this yacht?"
"They say," said Cap'n George Wray, like one rising from the dead to say it, so dumb and motionless had he been till now, "that Mis' Mulbridge was too much for the old doctor." "I don't know about that," Cap'n Billy replied, "but I guess her son's too much for her: she's only Gardiner, and he's Gardiner and Mulbridge both."
Amid voluminous wastes of type an item, in the court and society column, had caught his eye: "Sir Charles and Lady Wray, who are intending henceforth to reside in England, have returned to the stately Wray mansion in Piccadilly, where they will be for the season.
But I see Miss Wray," rising and walking toward the door. "My dance, don't you know." She gazed after him. "I wonder why Lord Ronsdale does not approve of, or shall we say, dislikes Mr. John Steele?" "Eh? what? I never noticed." "A man notice?" She laughed. "But your game of billiards? You are looking for some one. If I will do ?" "Delighted!" he Said with an accent of reserve.
He saw, also, "Sir Charles, Lady Wray and Miss Wray" among the long list of box-holders for that night at the opera, a gala occasion, commanded by royalty for the entertainment of royalty, and, incidentally, of certain barbarian personages who had come across the seas to be diplomatically coddled and fed.
"Not I! I know what I should have done myself, but I suppose you know your own business best." "I was greatly tempted to let out," said Oliver, "but the fact is I know you'll jeer, Wray the fact is, I've been trying feebly to turn over a new leaf this term." Wraysford said "Oh!" and looked uncomfortable.
"Never mind," said Ricketts to Pembury, after the two had been talking over the affair for the twentieth time. "Never mind; and there's just this, Tony, if Wray is only second, it will be a splendid win for the Fifth all the same." "I see nothing splendid in the whole concern," said Pembury. And that was the general feeling. Oliver entered and took his accustomed seat in silence.
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