Show three men and a maid by P G by go R CHAPTER XIII Continued Couth med Is 13 oh ibold mr bennett you rott do 0 4 o you mt M bennett but dova he put way A alb Is band handkerchief kerchief which had cm finly earned a rest then he fas bound baleful at beare A co upon his newly discovered ad son BOB it wan wag not uie the bort art al t look a D proud read and happy father 1 in law tobe be ought to have directed at a prospective ati relative it was not as an a matter a of f fact the sort of look which him estiva ancone ought to in have directed at an body except poa possibly sibly an exceptionally prudish krudl judge at ri intent in the aock convicted vie ad of a more mom than usually atrocious no murder it I 1 billie ballie not at being finchur 1 in the actual I 1 me line ot of tire fire orly only caught the tall nil end bud of 14 it but it s enough to create a falig hing oh ob father fa arl I 1 lou I 1 on arm aren t angry angry age I 1 1 2 sou on c cant be angry ia U ongel wb c cant I 1 be angry gry I 1 demanded mr ift B ennett bennett all with h that a sense ot of injury which h ell cornea to do self alf willed inen am when their whims are re thwarted thwart od taby by the devil A hauld I 1 I 1 be angry ary I 1 am angry I 1 I 1 mine come here and find you like ilke lik itlie this and you seem to expect me a I 1 to throw mv car hat in the air and ad give girt three cousin rousing g cheera chain I 1 1 of CIA course 1 I m angry agry I 1 YOU toil a are a engaged to be married to an are excellent young man of cha ct ar daae aft jm Ift louil character 1 one of the finest young annia am men I 1 bee have A eier met at ob wit eaid aid SAN sam 1 his I a tie a Boo dently 0 of f course it if ion ou my aay is so it a s RA aw full good ot of you aubut but father cried baille 1 I never lower really loved broom bream I 1 like him very much but I 1 could tie never ibur loffi I 1 only IY got t engaged to ll 11 him because you were es BO anxious 1 A lor it and because I 1 h bad it quarreled with the man I 1 really loved I 1 dont want to marri bream no no naturally um I 1 iv I 1 s said mid SAN sam naturally I 1 aulta it out of the question la 1 a few days well we 11 all be roaring with wilif laughter at the very idea mr air bennett bro A I 1 ett searched scorched him with fill a look Comilia compared red with fill which his earlier effort had hem been B in loving g al glance A he said go into the i outer ter olace the but father 31 QU dont understand to you adon don t realize that sam baa ausel just eared led my life caved haved sav A it your life what do you mean chere lhez was a lunatic in here with a pistol af pf to I 1 and it saiu 8 in saved me it gaff was nothing thi sold said sam fers modestly 1 go into the outer office MCA Is thundered mr me bett bennett B ett quite unmoved I 1 by this I 1 into tory y very well old bald billie 1 I shall hall al wa love you sam saiu she mid bald pausing Unith mutinously mus Y at the door 1 I 1 shall always love you said sam nobody can keep us apart they re casting time trying try trig bald old E sam am sou re CA the most wonderful man in I 1 the world I 1 arld there h A over never was a girl like you roul is get out bellowed my mr bennett an whose equanimity this love scene a will which ell I 1 think beautiful a JC jarring trial profound li now arl he sold bald 1 to sam as tile the door closed id yo yes lets Vs talk it ft over calmly said old sam fiam 1 I will not ant talk it over calmly I 1 oh h come I 1 you can do ft it yon yen try D bream mi com mortimer Is the son of henry heavy mortimer a rt leter I 1 know said mid sam and while it ft f Is no an doubt daub unfair to hold held that against him it t a 9 a point you ran can t afford to ig core henry heavy mortimer you and ad I 1 have nim henry Mor tort timers mers number we line know who what henry C mortimer I 1 Is hel A nan man who spends spend lita his time thinking up ways way ot of annoying you you can t a sert bously want to hu hav a the mortimer ficiA family lity linked to you by 11 henry airy mortimer Is 1 my oldest ft that makes bit it all the worse roe peary fancy ti la rotia an who calls himself your friend treating you like that tha Is 1 n I A lie As misunderstanding t to which you allude has been completely smoothed over at M mv relations with mr me mortimer ar are ill ihly fehly I 1 welt ivell have it your own way say per no anu nally fallY I 1 wouldn t trust treat a man like if the that I 1 and As a for letting my daughter marry his son on P 1 I be have decided once and ad for all 11 if boull take my advice dl you will break the thing off all 1 I will not take lake y your our advice 1 I 1 I wouldn do t expect apa of to 6 charge go you yen to tor it explained sam reassuringly 11 1 I alvo at ait it ou on as 8 a friend not at as a law yin yer six sir and ad to others the tree free to yon yen will you understand on that my dough ax I 1 Is going to marry brehun Morti mortimer merZ XV ahat flat are SA lou giggling about it it sounds bo be silly I 1 ahe he idea or of say aay a one tie bream brbara mortimer I 1 A lei NO me tell you he be Is a thoroughly young no man and there here you put the whole tiling thing in a nutshell your year daughter Is a girl of spirit S would hate to be tied for far life to an young inao she will ill it do as a I 1 tell fell ber bar sam to carded reitar ded him hare are you no DO regard tor for if tier ft input happl acay 71 1 I 1 am ni the beat judge of what to IB be beit far or he her if you acx 1 me I aid be sam nual candidly idt 1 I 1 you ran r a rotten un judge 11 1 I did not come came here ban to be insulted 1 1 I 1 like that I 1 you ion have bare base lurault ln tax we me over ever since you arald what wh a t right have you to say that thatis len not fl fit t to marry antry your daugh daughter terl edid 1 I did not at my aay thou that 1 I louve auve implied it and youve you hem been looking at me as if I 1 nere ara a lepar ur a or r bething ti pure on food 1 committee it has donde wily why th thang t what I 1 ash it you ll 11 mid bald SO sam warming up THIS he reacted fancied was waa the way widgery would have in tackled a client wh chyl 7 I 1 answer vivvie toe A that p 1 1 I 1 sa sam rapped sharply on the desk be careful care fuli sir air be B very careful I 1 he knew that this was waa what hinmers always bold fit of 0 course coune there them 1 la a dlf dif for forshee farence sRee in position between n R miser creart M whom you suspect of an attempt at par jury and the father of the girl I 1 love a whose h consent beat to the match vou am win to obtain but sam wait waa in no an mod for or these nice din distinctions 1 act he H only ay ion knew that lawera laem t told old people A to be very ry careful what do an TOU ines mean be very can careful fall I 1 eaid aid mr me ballett I 1 m dashed if I 1 know said mid sam frankly the qu question aBiton struck him as a mean an attack it dilt he 1111 wondered dared how widd or eri would ul have met it ft probably by smiling quietly and polish polishing ing fit tits spec C tables fact sam had no spectacles spean he eu en de defred dea ored lunger to smile ulet is e don dan t tough laugh at me I 1 roe roared r mr 33 ben nett natt I 1 in not laughing at you 1 I lou aare are 1 m not well mell dont then Is sold said 11 mr bennett H he I 1 e glowered int at his big young emil companion immon I 1 don on t know why by I 1 im casting sting my time liking I 1 1 to you tile the position Is clear to the 11 e meanest intelligence you toil mount cannot h have am any difficult te U it 11 I 1 bas im 1 co I ibm to you persons personally y come this la Is bet better terl said sam I 1 do don t know you yen well en enough gh to have sty any objection to you or any up ton ion of you at nil all tills Is the first tile time I 1 h have eer met you in my life marky mirk yon said sam 1 I thinly I 1 am A one of those those fell fellows fella a who alio grow on an VA people A As an far as a I 1 am c concerned ce med Y you I 1 sim aim ply do not of exist let you toil only may be the noblest character la in london or you may be wanted by the police I 1 1 d don A t know and I 1 don t earn care it daem doesn t matter to me an you mein nothing in my life I 1 do don t kyou kyen enow you must persevere sold said sam perseveres you must buckle to aana and get to know roe don t al glie N a the thing up in this halt half I 1 baady hearted way everything less has to nave have a beginning stick to it and in a we week or two you will ind find yourself imail knowing fig me quite well ell 1 I don dont t want to 0 o know enow you Is you say that now but wait and thank goodness I 1 have I 1 not t a got to failed exploded mr me benenty ceasing to be col calm and ad to reasonable able with ith a and sudden it A ness which affected sam much as tho though gh half a pound of gunpowder had be been A touched off under lus his chair F lor or tile the little I 1 have seen of you has hem been qui quite I 1 a I 1 1 findly understand that my it daughter aughter Is engaged to be me married tied to another man A an and that at I 1 do not wish to see or r hepe hear a anything t ing of you again I 1 I 1 shall A try to forget ar your v very nur a ence and it I 1 shall bell it A see to ta it t that wilhel alt wins does tile the sam same I 1 I 1 you re an I 1 impudent A scoundrel I 1 I 1 dont it like you on I 1 dan dont t wish to see me ou again al I 1 it if you were vor the last man in the world a I 1 ddn wouldn t allow my daughter all ter to marry or you I 1 it that Is in quite clear I 1 will ill wish you ym good morning V 1 mr me bennett thundered out ant of the room and SAN sam temporarily stun stunned mea by the on outburst timet remained food where he 11 waa gaping failing A few ew minutes 1 nice 1 later ter 11 life Is began to return to his palsied limbs i mb it graaf dont laugh at mel mail roared mr bennett 1 occurred to liam that mr me B bennett an A it had forgotten to id klan ill him good by and ad he we went t lot into the outer olha office to tell him so but the outer ter ohie office waa empty arn 8 sam stood food for far a moment in thought then he returned to the inner oolite and picking up a timetable began to look out trains to tile the village of ft A in duehurst dle dil hurst hurat in hampshire the nearest meanest at station 11 ion to his aunt adelman adeline B ch old aid world boom bome wholes CHAPTER XIV As al 1 I reaal 4 01 ali he last lew few chapter 1 of this I 1 bee ars that not I 1 have hem been status giving the reader a rather too jumpy time to almost a painful degree a I 1 have excited hill pity bud and terror terron and though that 1 what Axis tell i one ought bill to do I 1 roe feel that a little rf alte pit would old not at be out ant of at order its the T reader can stand having his emotions churned up to a certain point after that he wants want to take it easy it ta in with pleasure therefore that I 1 turn to depict a quiet peaceful so acene 1 in do life iffe it worn won C t last long lone three Nin minutes nies perhaps by a stop atop watch but that I 1 ta A n not at t my fault my M task talk Is to record facts as they happened th ma morning mg aim light lell fell pleasantly on the garden of turning tur it ono aind in into t the to 6 foreen am and amber para paradise bea will ell nature had intended it to be A umbel number of r the local birds sang san mandl welly in the alie und undergrowth at the end and of at the town lawn white while others wore more man ener 1 betle hopped about the grass gram in quest of norms DOCIA bees been mercifully ignorant the that t after they had worked themselves to the boue bone gathering honey the bonin amr proceeds A of their labor would be a col lured and consumed by idle humans b buzzed bad industriously ly to and it fron fro A and it a lid head to foremost t let into flowena winged danced iNi sarabands sara stow bands 1 in the sunshine and in a delk deck chair he ir un an it r the cedar tree free billie bennett with a latching sketching block on her knee we ans en ell in tire draw n ing a picture of the ruined castle tie B defide A her curled up in a ball lay her bar Pe kinese do dog alky boodley beside Boni boodler boodles fles slept smith the bulldog in ill the a ill distant stant sta stable b y yard A rd unseen but audible a boy in s rt sleeves sleeve wan rushing tile the car and sting singing as much as an tila chemas memory amid w recruit permit of a popular sentimental bat ballad ad you may think that nas as all you tou may suppose oppose that nothing could be added adde to deepen ill the at atmosphere phom of peace and content central not so BO at this moment mr me bennett emerged from the french windows a of f I 1 the h e dra draw lug ing room ram clad in w n hite flannels flannel and ad buck skin ha shoes A supplying just the finishing tolah that was needed mr me bennett crossed the Is lawn and sat t it down beside hla his daughter smith the bulldog raising a sleepy head b breathed but mr me bennett did rief not quail of if late relations rela tlona of distant b but of wild solid friendship had bad come to exist between them skeptical at first mr bennett had at length allowed himself to be PC persuaded saichol ol of the mildness of the animals I 1 s lure and the cli essential A 1 l ina purity partly 0 of f his mod motives all and ad n now w it we was 0 only wh when n they encountered each other IY in unexpectedly x round sharp corners that he ever bec betrayed bcd the slightest alarm in so now aw while smith slept on mh the a grass tie mr bennett reclined ell I 1 in th the chair it was the nearest thing mod or ern calilli civilization tho had seen to the it lion illig dw down with tile the lamb iamb said bald mr air bennett lea iles said mid billie tor for there on no be secrets con between bete this thin girl and her fa ahbe ther at least not ant many elbe occa me icam nally it ay aunt ed to tell hun him acme 11 ill trifle as that she had met samuel mar lowe iowa on an the previous morning lin fi a leafy lane and intended to lucei meet him again agai this afternoon but apart from I 1 that her mind was an all open back it a a great grant morning said my mr ben nett so peaceful old bald billie the eggs you get in the country in england said aid mr hit bennett barnett sullenly sul denly striking a lyrical note mete are nary ary I 1 had three tor for breakfast this morning which defied competition simply saml defied competition they were vere large and and brown and so as fresh as an new I 1 now mown bay I 1 1 he mused tor for a while in a sort of ecstasy Y and the hams I 1 he went on the ham A m I 1 had tor for breakfast was waa what I 1 11 call ham I 1 I 1 dont know whon when I 1 ve a tied had ham like that I 1 suppose its it a some come thing they teed feed the pigs he conclude ed ad in soft meditation and he gave a little sigh life was very beautiful silence fell broken only by the snoring 0 of f S smith 1 it billie was thinking of tonn bum bud and ot of what sam had mid bald to her in the lane blue yesterday of his clean cut face and it the look in his eyes so vastl superior to any look that over ever came into the eyes of brearn bream mol mortimer she was telling heinelt that chat her relations rela tlona with fill sam ham were ore an idyll tor for being young and romantic she he en AD joyed this if fi billet of wee meetings fogs which had iome emon to enliven cala the I 1 edream of of her life it was pleas ant at to go 90 war warily Y into deep lanea lane othere hem forbidden love lose lurked l ked she mst cast a swift side file glance at her the u ancon clous cloua ogre oam in her fabry airy story what would he be say it he be knew ED but t mr bit J bennett bame ft did not know and consequent t 1 ly C continued ant inked to amadita meditate te peacefully on an ham they had bat ant like this thin for or perhaps 4 a two happy mortals lulled by tile the polls grutle beauty of tile the day when from 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