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"In short, your charge is that I a, a coward?"

Adrienne did not at once answer hihtened out for an

uninterrupted run before the wind, and by the tiny ht to the depths of her eyes,

he knew that she s in a lot of railways and things, you handle

your mother's and sisters' property, don't you?"

He nodded

"In a fashion, I do I sign the necessary papers when the lawyers call

me up, and ask me to come don"

"You are a director in the Metropole Trust Company?"

"Guilty"

"In the Consolidated Seacoast?"

"I believe so"

"In a half-dozen other things equally important?"

"Good Lord, Drennie, how can I answer all those questions off-hand? I

don't carry a note-book inflannels"

Her voice was so serious that he wondered if it were not, also, a

little contemptuous

"Do you have to consult a note-book to answer those questions?"

"Those directorate jobs are purely honorary," he defended "If I

butted in with fool suggestions, they'd quite properly kick me out"

"With your friends, who are also share-holders, you could assuence, couldn't you?"

"I guess I could assume control, but ould I do with it?"