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DAVID GARRICK
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the blood leaped and surged madly in his head.
"Ah!"
Chivy slowly sank to his knees, his hand pressed against his shoulder. And from under the fingers a crimson stain was slowly widening.
Garrick threw down his weapon.
"I am thru," he said, "thru forever with the tricks and treachery, sordidness and counterfeit of my lords and ladies. My adieux. Tomorrow I start for a tour of the provinces."
"Please, father," she sighed, "I'd rather not talk about it. ' '
Guilt makes men garrulous. Ingot would have gone on explaining and protesting until he had talked himself blameless, but was interrupted by a knock. One of the servants handed him a note, explaining that it had been found on the floor of the hall, and he thought perhaps the master should see it. Ingot, reading it, agreed with him. He grew as pale as a permanent rosiness of coun
WHAT A FOOL I WAS WHEN I BELIEVED YOU TO BE A GENTLEMAN
Ada had passed thru the sprightly variations of hysterics, and now, wept dry, she lay back listlessly on the divan, staring out of the window. Her father had attempted to bolster up his conscience all night with the assurance that it would be better to grieve a few hours than repent a lifetime. Yet the words did not ring quite true even to himself. He looked remorsefully down now at his daughter, with the unease that all men feel in the presence of tears.
"My dear, actors are all like that," he said — "vinous; cowardly; abusers of women. Some day you will be glad you found him out when you did."
tenance permitted and avoided meeting his daughter's eyes.
"Nothing — nothing at all, my dear," he mumbled, but the scrap of paper shook in his fingers. Forgetting her prostration, Ada sprang to her feet, with a cry of exasperation, and snatched the note from him.
" Oh ! " she wailed, as the words flowed under her eyes, "oh — a duel! Father, why should Chivy fight with Mr. Garrick? Was it about— me f'
Ingot sank nervelessly into a chair, rested his head upon his hands and poured out the whole wretched business. By some trick of destiny his practical joke had become a tragedy.