T. Tembarom
r three days, and she did not wonder at them. Also she knew that if she merely sat still and listened as she sewed, she would be doing exactly what her mother would have done and what her father wo
ke with his broadest Manchester accent, and threw in now and then a word or so of Lancashire dialect to add roughness and strength, the angrier a Manchester man being,
' an' boastin' about their sharpness an' their open-'andedness. 'Go to 'Merica,' folks'll tell
r mother's had been,-"now, Father, love, don't work you
r a millionaire. He's pushed here an scuffled there, an' told this chap can't see him, an' that chap isn't interested, an' he must wait his chance to catch this on
his head on them. Her mother never allowed this. Her idea was that women were made to tide over such moments for the weaker sex. Far had it been from the mind of Mrs. Hutchinson to call it weaker. "But there's times, Ann, when just for a bit they're just like childr
r. She began to run her fingers caress
gland, at any rate, aren't we? And grandmother will be so glad t
o it." He quoted again with derisive scorn: "'You go to 'Merica. 'Merica's
rubbing the grizz
t'll be in the country, with the primroses in bloom and the young lambs in the fields." The caressing hand
ed his head and
th you just like your poor mother had. You always say the right thing to he
appliance his inspiration would supply. She knew it had something important to do with locomotive engines, and she knew that if railroad magnates would
must never let your father do. You must never let him begin not to believe in his invention. Your father's a clever man,
fully. He had heard this before, bu
he found vague comfort i
r. It was the very d
"And she had a good head of her own. Eh, she was a wonderful woman, she was, for stic
ays said you knew yours. Come and sit in y
e worst currents without
; and there's that Tembarom chap. He knows his. I've been noticing that chap." There was a certain pleasure in usin
's got a way," Little Ann
e made me sick wi' the way he pottered an' played the fool about the invention. He believed in it right enough, but he hadn't the courage of a mouse. He wasn't goin' to be the first one to risk his money. H
" said Little Ann, "and then the others will be sorry. Mr. Tembaro
nson c
e invention. I've talked it over with him, because I've wanted to talk, and
s a good dea
a fat lot. He tells you what you'll like to hear, and he's not sly; but he can ke
r came fro
Perhaps he's Lancashire. He had a lot of g
ted herself, wearing a novel expression on her face. It w
ueer man. He picked him up ill in the street. He wants me to let him stay with him for the night, anyhow. I don't t
ands and his paper on his knee, "I'm not going t
ed. "There's something pitiful about him, he s
send him to the hospita
t clings to Mr. Tembarom sort of awful, as if he thinks he'll save his life. But that isn't
son, bounding to his fe
xclaimed
lars in bills spread out on the table in the dining-room this minute. He had it in a belt pocket, and
into bed, and drink some hot spirits and water fi
ot up, newsp
n and have a look at that
ened, perhaps-" Li
nervous it'd make him worse to see anothe
ily, and Mrs. Bowse and Little A
Mrs. Bowse, "it's so queer. But h
e, his disordered, black-haired head on his arm. He looked like an exhausted thing. Tembarom was sitting by him, and was talking in an encouragin
ladies," s
d stood upright, waiting. It was the involuntary, mechan
inson down with her. Miss Hutchinson always knows wh
bewildered eyes fixed t
It's very kind of you.
im and smiled her mo
if you're not careful. Mrs. Bowse thinks you ought
me since I was in b
rhaps the cessation of action in certain cells of his brain had increased action in others. He looked as though he
o her. He was a tall man,
he asked anxiously.
p, and the soft, absorbed kindness in her eyes might, Tembarom th
you again. Let Mr. Tembarom take you up-stairs to bed. You'll be better in the morning.
ugh," she said.
her hand and then
help me. I don't know what'
bit. It'll all come right
ing to see him in his bewildered misery try to pull himself together, and bite his shaking lips a
" Mrs. Bowse was saying half as
the floor," said Tembarom. "That'll be all ri
the money o
five hundred dollars here. We've counted it to ma
disturbed and made
eep it. Some one took the rest.
out of his mind," Mrs. B
on occurred to him,-"I guess maybe Miss Hutchinson will keep it.
se his board every week. Yes, I'll take it. Now he must go to bed. It's a comfortable little room,
an, still keeping his yearn
chill out of him, and when, by lying on his pillow and gazing at the shakedown on the floor as long as he
ls in her hands. It was a roll of such size that Hutchins
. "What are you going to do with
sked me to take care of it. I'm going to put it
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