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And he slapped the paper down on the table. The others looked on with grim satisfaction at the prospect of an argument between the two representatives of rival schools; and it was noteworthy that, as they looked, they turned a referring glance on Courtney, as if it were a foregone conclusion that he must be the final arbiter.
But it was uttered by Knapp and repeated by Mr. Courtney. Frederick shuddered, and was hurrying on when he found himself stopped by a piteous figure that, with appealing eyes and timid gestures, stepped up before him. It was Amabel. "Forgive!" she murmured, looking like a pleading saint.
And as he turned up his intellectual little physiognomy to the deep, warm Egyptian sky and inhaled the air sniffingly, as though it were a monster scent-bottle just uncorked for his special gratification, he smiled as he observed Muriel Chetwynd Lyle standing entirely alone at the end of the terrace, attired as a "Boulogne fish-wife," and looking daggers after the hastily- retreating figure of a "White Hussar," no other than Ross Courtney.
"See, now!" muttered Sweetwater, but in so low a tone she did not hear him. "She condemns herself. There isn't a woman living who would fail to look up under such circumstances, even at the risk of her life." Knapp seemed to agree with him, but Mr. Courtney, following his one idea, pressed his former question, saying: "Was it an old man's step?" "It was not an agile one."
"My dear Alix, I can't let you go without saying a word about your splendid defence of David Strong. It was fine. And you, sir, were ah what shall I say? you were most generous in saying what you did. David is a fine fellow. He " "I should have said the same about any doctor who was up at the front," said Courtney simply. "Is he an old friend, Miss Crown?"
"The Princess! you mean," said Courtney quickly, lifting his own and clicking mine. I looked at the picture again and again it seemed to smile at me. "The Princess!" I echoed; and we drank the toast. "We're a pair of old fools," said I, when the glasses were emptied. Courtney picked up the News and held the picture before me. "Say that to her," he challenged.
I must go and talk to her, her conversation always does me good; and after that picture which I have been unfortunate enough to produce, her presence will be as soothing as the freshness of morning after an unpleasant nightmare." He moved away; Denzil Murray with Courtney followed him. Dr.
"It was Johnny Gamble did that. I open this pot right under the guns for the size of it and an extra sky-blue for luck. None of you old spavins was ever able to get me single-handed. A young fellow like Johnny Gamble that's different. It's his turn. You fellows are all afraid of my threes." "The others might be, so I'll just help them stay out," stated Courtney kindly as he doubled Washer's bet.
We must not lose sight of the fact that they set out to acquire three separate and distinct fortunes. Courtney set sail almost immediately for a land where "Corky" was an unheard-of appellation or epithet as he was wont to regard it and where fortunes hung on bushes, if one may be allowed to use the colloquialism. He went to France.
It did not seem possible to learn anything from Jenkins, in spite of the apparent intimacy of his conversation, so Lefevre left him, and returned to his own house. Its purport was curious. "I think," the letter ran, "you were sufficiently interested in the story I told you some week or two ago about one Hernando Courtney, not to be bored by a note on the same subject.
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