Ruby's Reward — page 16: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER OTL A PLBASANT ENCOUNTER, Watrer sab a long time lost in troubled thought after Edmund left him. He felt deeply hurt and indignant over the treat- ment that he had received. He know that his Uncle Ralph nevor would have allowed him to ke turned thus adrift upon the world if he had dreamed of the possibility of such treatment from Edmund; while in spite of all evidence to the contrary, ho st: believed that there must exist some decument providing for his future. He was not suspicious cnough to think that Edmund would destioy or sappresys such an instrumont if ib had eaisted. Le merely thouyht it musi havo heen mislaid or lost; bub he wasereatly surprise and hurt to find thab the son of his dearest friend was unwilling to share something of his abundance with him. He knew that he had never really liked him—that he had even been jealous of his love for his father, but he was unpreparcd for quite such a display of aveision and heartlessucss as ho had manifested towards him, Hisofter of » posilionin Lhe vounung-rooui and the sneering reference to a * promo- tion” if he “did well av his post,” had alled him beyond endurance ; while what e had said about his father indulging in quixotic acntiment on his avcount, and the insult offered to the late Vrs Carpenter, by bringing him -the son at Bir Carpenter's first love—into his home, made every nerve an his body tingle with indie 1ni iemichoctis.com