Alpha Book

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"You confessed to him?"
"Y-es; I had to. I was obliged to--to ask somebody for an advance--"
"You went to him? Why didn't you go to Captain Selwyn?--or to Mr.
Gerard?"
"I did!--not to Captain Selwyn--I was ashamed to. But I went to Austin
and he fired up and lit into me--and we had a muss-up--and I've stayed
away since."
"Oh, Gerald! And it simply proves me right."
"No, it doesn't; I did go to Neergard and made a clean breast of it. And
he let me have what I wanted like a good fellow--"
"And made you promise not to do it again!"
"No, he didn't; he only laughed. Besides, he said that he wished he had
been in the game--"
"What!" exclaimed Alixe.
"He's a first-rate fellow," insisted Gerald, reddening; "and it was very
nice of you to let me bring him over to-day. . . . And he knows
everybody downtown, too. He comes from a very old Dutch family, but he
had to work pretty hard and do without college. . . . I'd like it
awfully if you'd let me--if you wouldn't mind being civil to him--once
or twice, you know--"
Mrs.


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