She could not part with dignity. He then looked around him
with some curiosity; and, as the thief-taker was occupied in giving directions to
his attendant in an undertone, ample leisure was allowed him for investigation. “I am not sure,” Anna answered. “Too late, my dear girl,” she exclaimed. The real ‘Alcide’,” she wound up with a faint smile
across the table at him, “is here. Her foster
father had been outside for most of the morning, working
on trimming the maple trees and mowing the lawn. There was absolute quiet. At last he took up his thoughts again: “I wonder if, some day, one
won’t need to rebel against customs and laws? If this discord will have gone?
Some day, perhaps—who knows?—the old won’t coddle and hamper the young,
and the young won’t need to fly in the faces of the old. You would rather live like the scum
of the earth, in that little brown hovel you call a house, in
bourgeois paradise. ”
“And no one else—has a key?”
“I believe,” she said, “that that man must have one. I wondered what you could be doing and what might be happening to you. "
"I liked that, too," she replied; "but it wasn't that I had in mind. She pocketed the sum total of his ready cash, about fortyeight dollars. ”
“You did not notice anything which may have escaped this lady? You saw no
one leave the flats?”
“No one,” Brendon answered. The girl regarded him
with the face of a Sphinx.
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