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Kennedy Square

CHAPTER XXIX
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Colonel Rutter has taken over--so I am inFORMED--I'm not sure, but I am inFORMED--taken over a lot of the securities himself so that he COULD do it.

Another EXtraordinary combination, if you will permit me to say so--I refer to your father--a man who will show you his door one minute and open his pocketbook and his best bottle of wine for you the next," and he plunged himself down in his seat with so determined a gesture that it left no question on Harry's mind that he intended sitting it out until daylight should there be the faintest possibility of his financial proposition being accepted.
Harry walked to the window and gazed out on the trees.

There was no doubt now that Mr.Temple was once more on his feet.

"Uncle George will go now to Moorlands," he said, decisively, in a low tone, speaking to himself, his heart swelling with pride at this fresh evidence of his father's high sense of honor--then he wheeled and addressed the attorney: "Shall I tell Mr.Temple this news, about the Patapsco Bank, Mr.
Pawson ?" "Yes, if you think best, Mr.Rutter.And I have another piece of good news.

This please do not tell Mr.Temple, not yet--not until it is definitely settled.


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