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Archibald's address in the telephone book, and to the First National Bank Building Susanna immediately made her way. It was growing warmer now and the streets seemed noisy and crowded, but no matter "If I can only get to them and SEE Jim!" thought Susanna. In the pleasant shadiness of Dr. Archibald's office, rising from a delightful mahogany arm-chair, Susanna presently asked if Mrs.
Fine putting enabled Gossett to do the sixteenth hole in twelve, and when, winning the seventeenth in nine, he brought his score level with Archibald's the match seemed over. But just then 'Mr Gossett! said a familiar voice. Once more was the much-enduring telegraph boy among those present. 'T'ree dis time! he observed. Gossett sprang, but again the watchful Sigsbee was too swift.
It is not to be supposed that young Forester had such quick penetration, that he could discover the whole of the artful Archibald's character in the course of a few days' acquaintance; but he disliked him for good reasons, because he was a laird, because he had laughed at his first entree, and because he was learning to dance. About a week after our hero's arrival at Dr.
'Well, I said to myself, 'I'm going to get back into that theatre somehow! So I went up to Archibald's private house Sixtieth Street I think it was and asked to see him, and I saw him. When I got into his room he was writing. He kept on writing for some minutes, and then he swung round on his chair. "'And what can I do for you, sir? he said. "'Do you want any actors, Mr. Florance? I said.
As for Archibald's brother, now a pale and slender but dignified youth of nineteen, he assumed the title of Sir Edward, and the headship of the house, with a grave propriety of bearing that surprised those who had only looked upon him as a moping scholar.
Sidney picked the Calico Clown up off the grass. "Where did you get him?" asked Madeline again. "He's awfully cute. I saw one like that in the store where Aunt Emma got my Candy Rabbit." "Maybe this is the same one," Sidney answered. "I traded off my musical top to Archibald for the Clown. His leg is broken." "Whose Archibald's?" asked Madeline, in surprise.
Some hours later, when the children were asleep, and Gabriella sat darning Archibald's stockings beside the kerosene lamp, she described to Miss Polly the scene with Madame and Mrs. Pletheridge. "I don't know how it will end. She may discharge me to-morrow," she deliberated, as she cut off a length of black darning cotton, and bent over to thread her needle. "I wonder what I ought to do?"
Archibald's mind as she gazed about her, passing silently from room to room of the little house. She was a good woman, and she had made up her mind that she would not be a millstone around the necks of her companions.
It was arranged that Mamma should at least spend the night, and George and Mary left her there, and came happily home together, laughing, over their little downtown dinner, with an almost parental indulgence, at Mamma. In the end, Mamma did go down to the Archibald's for an indefinite stay.
The huddled figure at the foot of Cleopatra's steps; the fantastic airiness of Smyth with his shredded umbrella; the smoky atmosphere of Archibald's, with its strange gathering of derelicts; the two chance acquaintances spending the night in the adjoining room what vivid, disjointed cameos they were! If there was such a thing as Fate, what meaning could there be in their having met?
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