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"Angie is no longer there," Kearn remarked. "She is taking a nursing-course in some hospital, preparatory for work in France, and Vernon writes me that she seems earnest and sincere for the first time in her life. Verne himself is off for Plattsburg, and Winthrop North is already across the water, driving an ambulance on the western front.
It was merely nerves, she assured herself; she was worn-out mentally and physically with the continued strain and ceaseless effort and she forced her thoughts resolutely away from the false but ecstatic happiness which might have been hers on that evening save for the discovery of Kearn Thode's perfidy.
"I had intended to go on from here to the Flathead Lake country in Montana and then to Arizona in an effort to establish what you have discovered. I am anxious to know how you stumbled upon the truth." It was only when they had reached the little hotel sitting-room and established themselves before the replenished stove that Kearn Thode enlightened her.
She drew a deep breath. "Kearn, dear, do you suppose you could manage to marry me before you go to war?" "You darling!" He hugged her close, pillows and all. "I didn't dare ask you that now, but, oh, I wanted to!
He held out a pudgy hand, and noting the fresh coat of sunburn on his visitor, he added: "Just come over the border?" "Further than that, Sir; from New York. I'm Kearn Thode. Perhaps Mr. Larkin mentioned me to you; Perry Larkin, of the Mexamer Oil Company." "To be sho'! I'm right glad to see you, Thode." Benjamin Hallock pumped his hand vigorously. "Been kinder expectin' you down in these parts.
He had parted with some little difficulty from his host, who insisted on sending in to Limasito for the young engineer's baggage and wholeheartedly desired that he make the Hacienda de Rosa his headquarters. Kearn Thode, however, had other intentions. He must be free to go and come as he pleased on his mission and he determined to make the town itself the center of his activities.
True to his word, Kearn Thode had ridden out at daybreak and ridden hard, but only the pinto knew where they were going and he was too jaded to care. A sleepless night of bewilderment and self-disgust at his own surly, unaccountable mood had brought a revelation that stunned and humbled him. He loved her!
"It is no affair of yours and you shall not speak of Kearn Thode as a a fortune-hunter! He is the only real man in this whole spindling, self-seeking, artificial crowd! If you listened, you know how proud and independent he is!" "I heard, but that was only his cleverness; he knew how eager you were and he simply led you on to almost propose to him yourself!
Willa gave her hair a final twist and turned from the mirror. "I am honestly sorry Kearn Thode missed those dances with you to-night, but it really wasn't my fault " "Do you suppose I wanted to dance with him?" Angie interrupted in immense scorn.
The brief note she had received from Kearn Thode, after he had thrashed Wiley at the club, was engraved deep in her thoughts with every line distinct and the characters on the paper before her eyes were so similar in every detail that it seemed impossible for them not to have been fashioned by the same hand.
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