A Daughter of Delilah — page 49: what you’re looking at

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40 “LOVE THAT HATH US IN THE NET!’ myself to loneliness. I cannot expect to have you ever near tome. After our trip to Europe, no one knows what may happen. By the way, Lord St. Leonards was here yesterday. He insists that we are to be his guests while in London. My children, you will be thrown into the very ' cream of the fashionable British upper ten! Oh, how they ‘ are fascinated by the American dollar!’’ Edgar frowned and yawned. ‘“‘Do you require my attendance at the office to-day, father?’’ he asked. ‘‘T think that I might easily dispense with your services altogether, Edgar,’’ was the good-humored reply. ‘‘Still, it gives tone to the establishment for my son to be there when the head is away. I shall stick close to business for the next two weeks. The markets want constant watch- ing. There are ominous signs of a severe crisis, which will make and unmake vast fortunes. If you see anything of St. Leonards, bring him home to dine.’’ “I will give his lordship your invitation, father, but I have an engagement to dine at the club to-day.”’ Mentally he added: ‘I will evade the British peer as I would amad dog !”’ “It is always your club,’’ Mr. Alston muttered, testily. ‘Edgar, Ido not think you study my wishes in the least, and it is quite time that you settled down into some semblance of respectability. The club means a mid- night orgie of some kind, which is almost as disreputable to me as it is to yourself. ”’ He rose hurriedly from the table, and having pressed a hasty kiss on his daughter’s brow, left the room, Five (E(0) Gomicbooks § m