27/31 To-night, when you left me alone there in the quarter-deck of that opera house, I happened to hear two young chaps talkin' about it. So you might say I knew--Yes." "Good heavens! and you can stand there and--What are you going to do about it ?" "I don't know--yet." "Are you going to permit her to marry that--_that_ fellow ?" "Well, I ain't sartin that I can stop her." "My God, man! Do you realize--and _she_--your niece--why--" "There! there! Jim. It's my business to realize it." "And it isn't mine. No, of course it isn't; you're right there." He turned and strode toward the foot of the stairs. |