"
"I will go with you, certainly, dear, but I cannot understand why you are
so frightened, for by your own description of him he is a gentleman."
A few hurried explanations of Hugh's past history in connection with
herself were given, and Guy grasped the headlines of it as it poured from
Dexie's lips.
"As my promised wife, darling, you need fear no further annoyance from him.
I will see to that," he replied. "Give me a few minutes while I go to the
hotel and change my suit. I have been putting in shafting with the men, and
am hardly presentable in my present condition," he laughingly added.
"I am putting you to great inconvenience, I fear, Guy; but I cannot help
it, for it will not do to send word that I will not go back till he is
gone."
"No, certainly not. He would put a different construction on your absence.
Let me find a more smiling face on my return, darling, for I will take care
of you."
Half an hour later Guy and Dexie had entered the house; and finding that
Hugh was still with her father, she left Guy in the parlor while she sought
Jarvis in the kitchen.
"He is still here, then? Well, tell Eliza she can place _two_ extra plates
for to-night, as Mr.
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