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He unwittingly fell to studying his fellow-men whenever the opportunity presented itself, and the result of this habit was a certain classification of detail. He picked up little scraps of evidence here and there, and these were methodically pigeon-holed away, as a lawyer stores up the correspondence of his clients. With regard to Frederick Farrar, Vellacott had only made one note.
So presently Dol Farrar got to his feet again, when he had recovered breath and strength, and told himself pluckily that "he wasn't going to knock under," that "he had been in bad scrapes before now, and had not shown the white feather."
There came over me then in a flash a comprehension of Farrar which I had failed to grasp before. But I was quite overcome at his suggestion. "Isn't it rather a big deal to risk me on?" I said. "Better go to Chicago and get Parks. He's an expert in that sort of thing." I am afraid my expostulation was weak. "I merely spoke of you," replied Farrar, coolly, "and he has gone around to your office.
"In that house," exclaimed Lathrop, dramatically, "there's only one thing that I desire, and I want that so badly that 'life holds no charm without you." Miss Farrar regarded him steadily. "Do you intend to drive me away from my own door, or will you go?" Lathrop picked his wheel out of the dust. "Good-by," he said. "I'll come back when you have made up your mind."
Pull off your moccasins and socks, and let me doctor your poor trotters." Young Farrar very gladly did as he was bidden. "Humph!" said his friend. "I thought so. They're a mass of bruises and blisters. You've been pretty well branded, son.
As soon as he caught sight of the cowpuncher he strode forward. The straight line of his set mouth looked like a gash in a melon. "Will you have it here or back of the garage?" he demanded, getting straight to business. "Any place that suits you," agreed Steve affably. "Won't the bulls pinch us if we do a roughhouse here?" Harrison turned with triumphant malice to Farrar. "Get your camera.
On the table lay the dusty, pinched-in hat, through the disreputable crown of which Farrar had lately seen a lock of his brindle hair rising like an aigrette. "Glad to have you join us. We need riders like you. Say, it was worth five dollars to me to see the way you laid out Harrison." The cowpuncher's boyish face clouded. "I'm right sorry about that. It ce'tainly was a fool play.
Cooke has really been very ill," she said, "and Miss Thorn is doing all she can for her. My father and I were more fortunate. But you will both catch your deaths," she exclaimed, noticing our condition. "Tell me where I can find your coats." I suppose it is natural for a man to enjoy being looked after in this way; it was certainly a new sensation to Farrar and myself.
Then " He was going to add, "Then you can tell me his real name," but he paused, because it is a pity ever to acknowledge ignorance, and especially ignorance in such elementary matters as your son-in-law's name. So Mr. Emblem checked himself. "He ought to have been a rich man," Mr. Farrar continued; "but he quarreled with his father, who cut him off with a shilling, I suppose."
From the moment his valet deposited his luggage in his rooms, Charles Wrexell Allen became the social hero of Asquith. It is by straws we are enabled to tell which way the wind is blowing, and I first noticed his partiality for Miss Trevor from the absence of the lively conflicts she was wont to have with Farrar. These ceased entirely after the Celebrity's arrival.
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