[Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott]@TWC D-Link bookChildren of the Whirlwind CHAPTER XVIII 17/24
I'll send you Mr.Hunt's present address when I receive your check.
Make it payable to 'cash.'" When Mr.Graham had gone with the Italian mother--it was then the very end of the afternoon--Larry wondered if his plan to draw Hunt out of his hermitage was going to succeed; and wondered what would be the result, if any, upon the relationship between Hunt and Miss Sherwood if Hunt should come openly back into his world an acclaimed success, and come with the changed attitude toward every one and every thing that recognition bestows. But something was to make Larry wonder even more a few minutes later. Dick, that habitual late riser, had had to hurry away that morning without speaking to him.
Now, when he came home toward six o'clock, Dick shouted cheerily from the hallway: "Ahoy! Where you anchored, Captain Nemo ?" Larry did not answer.
He sat over his papers as one frozen.
He knew now whose had been the elusively familiar voice he had heard outside Maggie's door.
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