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A baleful light informing his eyes, an ominous expression settling about his mouth, he gave the operator the address of Shaynon's town-house; and as the car slipped away from the hotel was sensible of keen regret that he had left at Peter Kenny's, what time he changed his clothing, the pistol given him by Mrs.
"I'm chilled through." "No, no, Mr. O'Neill, I'm not meaning the fire. It's the one place we haven't looked." "It won't hurt none to look, Mr. O'Neill," urged Hannah, who knew that Kenny's energy was subject to undependable ebb and now. "If Hughie goes out of here with that fireplace on his mind, he'll dream all night about it."
At nightfall of the third day when Kenny's hatred of dots was approaching a frenzy and a ballet of spades danced with horrible rhythm through his dreams, the package came from Garry. Kenny took it with a careless whistle and went slowly up the stairs. The closing of his bedroom door transformed him. He found matches and a lamp and marveled at the erratic pounding of his heart.
Sneezing and coughing, they faced each other in the melee with looks of blank discouragement. Even Kenny's inexhaustible energy and excitement seemed on the point of waning. He stared drearily at the fireplace. "It's cold in here," he said, shivering. "Yes," said Joan, "we should have built a fire." "The fireplace!" cried Hughie hoarsely. "It's too late now," said Kenny irritably.
"Whisht!" said Kenny, pointing into the kitchen behind. Yankee looked and saw Bella Peter and her father entering. But Ranald was determined to know Kenny's opinion. "Mr. Campbell," he whispered, eagerly, and forgetting the respect due to an elder, he grasped Kenny's arm, "do you think with them?"
"Aranyi has asked me to pose in the gold brocade." Something sharp stabbed at Kenny's heart. "I meant them," he said with a sigh, "for costume dances, but Aranyi paints the texture of things with marvelous skill." By the end of the month Joan's work day was full and he was seeing her less than he had, save at night.
The wind, fitful and chill since the sunset, speckled the grayness beneath the trees with dim white fragrant rain and stirred the drift of petals on the ground. Stillness and blossoms and the disillusion of intrusive fact! Joan, lovelier to Kenny's eye than any blossom, seemed unaware of the romance in the orchard. She was intent upon a man coming down the orchard hill.
The old man's emotion took the sharpness out of Kenny's speech, but he persisted, stoutly, "Goodness is goodness, Mr. McRae, for all that." "You will not be holding the Armenian doctrine of works, Mr. Campbell?" said Peter, severely. "You would not be pointing to good works as a ground of salvation?" Yankee, who had been following the conversation intently, thought he saw meaning in it at last.
Ah! there he knew was the reason for his gladness. Joan was beside him. The taxi he commandeered threaded its way south through a maze of lights, hurrying crowds and noisy, weaving traffic to a tenement in Greenwich Village. Joan, searching for the unknown sparkle of that Bohemian world she had been unable to envisage, stared at the unromantic basement doors ahead and clung to Kenny's hand.
And you weren't expecting visitors as early as this or you would have got home a little sooner yourself, huh?" "What are you talking about?" "Soon as she is out of the house you scoot over to big brother Kenny's, eh? Afraid to sleep alone, I suppose. Well, all I've got to say is you ought to have taken a little more time to dress." "Oh!
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