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The Three Partners

CHAPTER II
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He found, however, that Stacy had received a letter from Demorest, and that he was coming home from Europe.

His letters were still sad; they both agreed upon that.

And then for the first time that day Stacy looked intently at Barker with the look that he had often worn on Heavy Tree Hill.
"Then you think it is the same old trouble that worries him ?" said Barker in an awed and sympathetic voice.
"I believe it is," said Stacy, with an equal feeling.

Mrs.Barker pricked up her pretty ears; her husband's ready sympathy was familiar enough; but that this cold, practical Stacy should be moved at anything piqued her curiosity.
"And you believe that he has never got over it ?" continued Barker.
"He had one chance, but he threw it away," said Stacy energetically.
"If, instead of going off to Europe by himself to brood over it, he had joined me in business, he'd have been another man." "But not Demorest," said Barker quickly.
"What dreadful secret is this about Demorest ?" said Mrs.Barker petulantly.

"Is he ill ?" Both men were silent by their old common instinct.


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