Ambrotox and Limping Dick

ece of needlework half-covering three fresh novels. But when the stable-clock on the other side of the house struck noon, it

was a man of both character and intellect, had been anything but unhappy, it had lacked, at one time or another, variety and beauty. But the ti

ndal Bellamy for something more than the mere daughter of the man whom he considered the first and most advanced synthetic chemist of the day; but there are matters perceived so instinctively by a woman that she makes no record of

de the clouds of her depression. Expecting her father to join her about this ti

he

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s, dad?"

o flirt with, while the ol

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s Jack-of-all-trades has left that accomp

nerves," objected his da

r says, this one's mo

laughed

ng!" she said. "But I'

looking towards the hous

e corner of the house, wi

is softly. "P'r'aps it's

Randal, as he came up. "Dick-my brother-is coming by an earlier train. Jus

edly. "You're like a hen with

ick and I were born, I believe, with the adventurous spirit. I was pushed into the most matter-of-fact profession in the world, which has kept me tied by t

brother ever followed any re

years before the war certain matters took me to South Africa. One evening, in the smoking-room of the Grand Hotel at Capeto

k?" exclaime

time I ever heard the name he is known by fr

all him that?"

told the fellow that I had indeed a young brother Richard, and that my young brother Richard certainly h

eased with life in the movies; hair black as a Crow Injun's; eyes blue as a hummin' b

rubber plantation north of Banjermassin in Borneo, had given him a job. He added, however, that my brother had left Borneo some six months later. The American had first met him four years before in Bombay, and they had joined forces in a pearl-fishing expedition w

rself; but her father had heard these t

," he said, turning

most," called B

her you are!" sai

e said. "Besides, I'm almost old enough to b

be thirty at least," objected the g

said B

look it," s

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going to s

looked up,

r goodness and beauty more and more every day, without perceiving, until some few days ago, that I did so at great risk to myself. If I were twenty years younger I should put off speaking like this, in the hope of g

foreseen; yet at this moment she felt as much surpris

m awfully, that she valued his love, and felt very sure of being happier as his wife than as an old maid; but now, with the famous lawyer's kind and handsome face

ere came a tiresome lump in her throat and a horrid swimminess ov

id huskily. "But-but-oh! I do like you mo

d the womanly tenderness which he had never before found in her voice, made his heart quicken as never since he was thirty. That

ared on the terrace, shouting that it was

d side by side

id, "but just turn me and it over in your