MacFarlane go with me and then I can decide."
Breen knitted his brows. It was not the answer he had expected. In
fact, he was very much astonished both at the reply and the way in
which it was given. He began to be sorry he had raised the
question at all. He would gladly have helped Jack in getting a
good price for his property, provided it did not interfere with
his own plans, but to educate him up to the position of an
obstructionist, was quite another matter.
"Well, think it over," he replied in a tone that was meant to show
his entire indifference to the whole affair,--"and some time when
you are in town drop in again. And now tell me about Ruth, as we
must call her, I suppose. Your aunt just missed her at the
Cosgroves' the other day." Then came a short disquisition on Garry
and Corinne and their life at Elm Crest, followed by an
embarrassing pause, during which the head of the house of Breen
lowered the flow line on a black bottle which he took from a
closet behind his desk,--"his digestion being a little out that
morning," he explained.
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