The Dugdale Millions — page 77: what you’re looking at

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DISQUIETING NEWS. 67 This was one of the sights of Springhill, and to this spot Wallis led Dick. As they leaned over this railing, Golda down upon the tracks, Wallis said: *“You were not pleased with my suggestion to go to the Hetlows’ to-night.’’ ‘“How could you be so unkind?’’ asked Dick reproachfully. ‘*Any meeting with Miss Hetlow must now be full of embarrassment for both of us.”’ ‘I suppose so,’’ said Wallis, adding maliciously, *‘you should not have lost your temper.’’ “‘Temper!’’ replied Dick in surprise. ‘‘Surely I made no display of temper!’’ ‘Bessie says you behaved in a perfectly outrageous manner; accused her of all sorts of things, and I said I had no doubt of it.’’ Dick looked up at her, to see the mischief dancing in her dark eyes, and remarked with humorous sar- casm: ‘‘Your efforts at clearing the atmosphere seem to have been attended with great success.’’ She laughed merrily, as she said: ‘Of course there must be some embarrassment when two such geese as you have been, first meet after your foolishness. But be consoled, I have acted the part of your friend, I have insisted to her that it was from no indifference to her that you undertook to find young Dugdale.’’ ‘‘T hope you did not tell her what I said to you in a moment of bitterness and confidence,’’ said Dick anxiously. “Am I not your friend? Do you not suppose that I know a girl wants to hear that she is loved from the man who loves her? Oh, I was discreet.’ Dick was silent as he busied himself with pushing small pebbles over the rocks with his foot, but he was also busy with his thoughts, for he could not see how Wallis could have persuaded Bessie that he was not CoMmiclooe <S C@ 3}