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gle that was impending. "I wa'n you, suh," Bennett was repeating, "yo' course will not meet with the approval of the members of the bar." "I am sorry, Cal," said Keith sadly. Bennett rose, bowed stiffly, and turned to the door. But suddenly he whirled back, his face alight with feeling, "Oh, see heah, Milt, be sensible!" he cried. "I know just how yo're feelin' now. Yo're sore, and I don't blame you. You put ap a hard fight, and though you got ******, I don't mind tellin' you that the whole bar appreciates yo're brilliant work. You must remember you had to play a lone hand against pretty big men--the biggest we've got! We all appreciate the odds. Cora has lots of friends. You'll never convict him, Milt; but go in again for another trial, if it will do yo're feelin's any good, with our best wishes. Only don't let gettin' ****** make you so sore! Don't go buttin' yo're haid at yo're friends! Be a spo't!" A half hour ago this appeal might have gained a response if not a practical effect, but the spiritual transformation in Keith was complete. "I'm sorry," he replied simply, "but I must go ahead in my own way." Calhoun Bennett's face lost its glow, and his tall figure stiffened. "I must wa'n you not to bring my name into this," said he. "I do not intend to have my reputation sacrificed to yo' strait-laced Yankee conscience. If my <a href="http://www.oakleyshub.com/replica-oakley-sunglasses-promotion-replica-oakley-m-frame-sunglasses-c-39_48.html">Cheap oakleys M Frame Sunglasses</a> name is ever mentioned, I shall hold you responsible, _personally_ responsible. You understand, suh?" He stood stiff and straight, staring at Keith. Keith did not stir. After a moment Calhoun Bennett went out. Chapter 45 After this interview Keith experienced a marked and formal coldness from nearly all of his old associates, Those with whom he came into direct personal contact showed him scrupulous politeness, but confined their conversation to the briefest necessary words, and quit him as soon as possible. He found himself very much alone, for at this period he had lost <a href="http://www.oakleysshadestore.com/fake-oakley-ten-c-30.html">Oakley Ten sunglasses outlet</a> the confidence of one faction and had not yet gained that of the other. His investigations encountered <a href="http://www.montblancom.com/montblanc-meisterstuck-pens-c-25.html">Mont blanc Starwalker Pen uk</a> always increasing difficulties. In his own department he could obtain little assistance. A dead inertia opposed all his efforts. Nevertheless, he went ahead doggedly, using Krafft and some of Krafft's proteges to considerable effect. But
it possible to drop it or compromise it or something, Milton?" In the reaction from argument and--coldness downtown he felt he could stand no more of it at home. "I wish you'd let that matter drop!" he said decidedly. "You couldn't understand it." She hesitated. A red spot appeared in either cheek. "I must say I _don't_ understand!" she countered. "It is inconceivable to me that a man like you should turn so easily against his class!" "My class?" he echoed wearily. "What do such creatures as Cora and Yankee Sullivan amount to?" she cried hotly, "I suppose you'll say _they_ are in your class next! How you can consider them of sufficient importance to go dead against your best friends on their account!" "It is because I am right and they are wrong." She was a little carried beyond herself. "Well, they all think the same way," she pointed out. "Aren't you a little --a little--" "Pig-headed," supplied Keith bitterly. "--to put your opinion against theirs?" she finished. Keith did not reply. This was Nan's last attempt. She did not bring up the subject again. But she withdrew proudly and completely from all participation in society. She refused herself to callers. Once the situation was thoroughly defined, she accepted it. If her husband decided to play the game in this way, she, too, would follow, whether she approved or not. Nan was loyal and <a href="http://www.montblancom.com/">Mont blanc Pens Cheap</a> a thoroughbred. And she was either too proud or too indifferent to fight it out with the other women, in the rough and tumble of social ambition. Chapter 46 In this voluntary seclusion Nan saw laterally only two persons. One of these was Mrs. Sherwood. The ex-gambler's wife called frequently; and, for some reason, Nan never refused to see her, although she did not make her visitor particularly welcome. Often an almost overmastering impulse seized her to open her soul to this charming, sympathetic, tactful woman, but something always restrained her. Her heart was too sore. And since an inhibited impulse usually expresses itself by contraries, her attitude was <a href="http://www.montblancom.com/">Mont blanc Pens Sale</a> of studied and aloof politeness. Mrs. Sherwood never seemed to notice this. She sat in the high-ceilinged "parlour," with its strange fresco of painted fish-nets, and chatted on in a cheerful
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