Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII KIR YEN'S talk with his wife over his old friend's hidden trouble, while not explanative in any real sense, served nevertheless as a working hypothesis; and more effectively, even, it served to prepare Kirven's mind for the wrench of parting with Ellis that Avery foresaw as inevitable. She had hoped that the hints as to the state of Ellis's affections that she had grafted upon her husband's mind might have an antiseptic effect in healing the soreness resulting from poor Ellis's enforced reticence. And it turned out exactly as she had hoped it would. For, after turning the matter over in his mind during the couple of days of Ellis's absence, Kirven had evolved a perfectly satisfactory theory, based upon his wife's hints--just as she had hoped and prayed he would--that explained his old friend's hidden uneasiness as the natural symptoms of a shy and reserved nature in the grip of a belated and, possibly, a hopeless passion for a young girl. And as he walked down to his office a few days after his non-illuminating conversation with Avery he confided to himself that it was just as well it was a hopeless passion; for, try as he might he could not, someway, fit Spencer into the role of lover of a young and beautiful girl--and a Southerner too, by George! If it had been Marion, now--Marion was the very woman for Ellis. And that house of ("'liislml m's across the street would suit them to a dot--delightful for Avery to have her sister so near her. Ellis could easily afford it. If only he could be persuaded to cut loose from these wildcat schemes of his in that preposterous Mississippi--South Carolina--whichever it was. No matter. They were all of a piece. And Ellis of all men! To leave a safe, growing business in a town like Westinghame to rush off d...
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