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Franklin Kane

CHAPTER IX
17/29

Miss Buckston, Aunt Julia, the girls, and Herbert Vaughan had driven over to a neighbouring garden-party, and Althea alleged the arrival of her old friend as a very valid excuse.

She walked up and down the drawing-room, dressed in one of her prettiest dresses; the soft warmth and light of the low sun filled the air, and her heart expanded with it.

She wondered if--ah, if only!--Franklin would himself be able to thrill her, and her deep expectation almost amounted to a thrill.

Expectation culminated in a wave of excitement and emotion as the door opened and her faithful lover stood before her.
Franklin Winslow Kane (he signed himself more expeditiously as Franklin W.Kane) was a small, lean man.

He had an air of tension, constant, yet under such perfect control, that it counted as placidity rather than as strain.


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