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You've been trying ever since you were alderman to throw me down. You've talked about how much you were going to do, and all the while we've been laughing at you. Then this McNally came along and set up you and Williams to a dinner at the Hotel Tremain and paid you some money and gave you this fool contract, to get you to vote the Tillman City proxies his way."
The impressions of a man who has been on the spot are always worth hearing, but my ears were strained to catch a repetition of the angry cry I had heard, or the continuation of the quarrel which it certainly seemed to be the beginning of. As we came up the deck again we met young Howard with the shawl still on his arm and Mrs. Tremain walking beside him.
I made a certain number of enquiries about him when he became engaged to Miss Tremain, and I am bound to tell you, Mr. Burton, that the answers, as far as they went, were quite satisfactory. The gentleman in whose house the two met I mean poor Nancy and Dampier had, and has, an extremely high opinion of him." "Mrs. Dampier once spoke to me as if she thought you did not like her husband?"
I told him frankly I had taken him to be a very much older man than that, and the only thing about him I didn't like was a certain cynicism and knowledge of the world which didn't look well in a man who ought to be thinking about the serious things of life. After this young Howard confided in me even more than before. He said that he didn't care for Mrs. Tremain in that sort of way at all.
She was standing two or three steps above him; Glendenning was at the bottom of the stair; young Howard stood on the same step as Mrs. Tremain, and I was a step or two above them. "Put it together," cried Mrs. Tremain again. "I am trying to," said Glendenning, "is there a spring somewhere?"
Tremain and Glendenning are concerned." "Supposing she objects to that?" "Very likely she will; I don't care. The voyage lasts only a few days longer, and I am going to make the third party at any tete-a-tete." "Dangerous business, Howard; first thing, you know, Glendenning will he wanting to throw you overboard." "I would like to see him try it," said the young fellow, clenching his fist.
They doubtless thought they were completely in the dark; but they were deluded in that idea, because the turmoil of the water left a brilliant phosphorescent belt far in the rear of the ship, and against this bright, faintly yellow luminous track their forms were distinctly outlined. It needed no second glance to see that the two were Glendenning and Mrs. Tremain.
"Here, Howard," I said, "I want to speak to Captain Tremain for a moment. Take this shawl and find Mrs. Tremain, and give it to her." Saying this, I took the shawl from the captain's arm and threw it at young Howard. He appeared then to realise, for the first time, what was expected of him, and, giving me a grateful look, disappeared toward the stern.
Tremain?" "Oh, I shan't bring her name into the matter." "The trouble will be to keep her name out. It may not be in your power to do that. A person who interferes in other people's affairs must do so with tact and caution." Young Howard looked up at me with a trace of resentment in his face. "Aren't you interfering now?" he said. "You are quite right, I am. Good night."
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