as I had seen him last, cigarette, tie-pin, and all. He wore an overcoat, however, and leaned upon a massive ebony cane, while he carried his daughter’s guitar in its case, exactly as though they were waiting for a train. Moreover, I thought that for the first time he was regarding me with no very favoring glance.
“You don’t think it serious?” I asked him abruptly, my heart still bounding with the most incongruous joy.
He gave me his ambiguous shrug; and then, “A fire at sea is surely sirrious,”
Harris. He didn’t put in an appearance tonight. He shall not have another chance of insulting me.”
Was it her vanity that was wounded after all? “You forget,” said I, “that you would not answer when he addressed you at dinner.”
“I should think I wouldn’t, after the way he spoke to Mr. Ready; and he