Excerpt: ... with several old, interesting engravings on its walls. He merely glanced at the horsehair Davenport to which she had waved him; turned and stood with face toward the sliding door through which she had disappeared. Soon this door was drawn open. Forward she led by the hand the man. A tall, fit specimen he was, his face clean-shaved and strong-featured, his hair a tawny mass which probably once had been auburn, but now was blond from a two-thirds admixture of gray. The light of devotion irradiated the girl's ...
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Excerpt: ... with several old, interesting engravings on its walls. He merely glanced at the horsehair Davenport to which she had waved him; turned and stood with face toward the sliding door through which she had disappeared. Soon this door was drawn open. Forward she led by the hand the man. A tall, fit specimen he was, his face clean-shaved and strong-featured, his hair a tawny mass which probably once had been auburn, but now was blond from a two-thirds admixture of gray. The light of devotion irradiated the girl's uplifted face as she stopped before him. She looked like a slender white taper beside some shrine, her lips the live red, her eyes the blaze blue, her hair the waving suggestion of its lighted tip. "Dear," she said to her companion, "I want to introduce Mr. Why-Not Pape, the Westerner I told you about." The man's smile was cordial, beautiful. He stepped forward with outstretched hand. "Welcome to our city, Why-Not Pape," he quoted from the Times Canon sign which, patently, had been part of Jane's tale. But Pape didn't-just couldn't meet the advance. He stood stubbornly still before the Davenport, his arms stiff at his sides, his suffering eyes upon the lit taper-upon Jane. And into her devotional mood seemed to return that gentling comprehension of dumb brutes. "I beg your pardon," she said to him. "Mr. Pape, my father." CHAPTER XV-THE LIMIT OF TRUST Not until Jane was finishing an account of his disposal of the "grave-diggers" did Pape feel sure that the splendid old man was blind. Suspicion had come from the uncertainty with which he had veered toward the chair placed for him, from his indirect gaze toward the girl, from the hand outstretched for the touch of her hand. Conclusion surprised from the Westerner a low, sympathetic exclamation which Jane heard, evidently understood and chose to answer openly. "Yes," said she, "my father has been unable to see since the war. France, you know, and mustard...
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