Here Comes the Sun! by Emilie Loring

Author:Emilie Loring [Loring , Emilie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2021-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

The creases between Jim Trafford’s eyes were deep as he rode borne from the mill. The bridle hung loose on the horse’s neck. It was his custom when at the office to wait until the whistle blew and go out for lunch when his employees went. His grandfather and great-grandfather had followed the same program. It gave an opportunity to exchange friendly greetings with the workers. But today their descendant had found it impossible to remain indoors after Ben Cheever’s call. It was the first time his political opponent had visited the mill since his accident and save for an ugly red scar on his cheek the representative to the legislature had seemed as sound as before that epoch-making night in the cabin.

He had been friendly. He had smoked and discussed the division of a consignment of wool that they two had ordered months before. He had been too darned friendly, Trafford thought with a darkening of his eyes as he stared ahead at the shady path filigreed with golden sunshine. His business statements and propositions had been of the fairest. He had not mentioned the campaign. He had referred once with a sigh to the two weeks he had lost out of his life, the weeks that he could not remember. Couldn’t he? Had be forgotten or was be keeping up a superb bit of bluff? With his band on the office door Cheever bad turned back with a smiling apology:

“I sure acted like a goof the day I was presented to your wife, Jim. My only excuse is that I was still dazed from my accident. Before that time—I didn’t admit it because I wanted her myself—I could have sworn that you and Pamela—— Don’t scowl. I won’t say any more except that I’m obliged to you for leaving the field clear for me.”

The lines between Trafford’s eyes deepened. Cheever must know that until his appearance at the gate of Brick House there had been no announcement of the marriage. Pamela would inform him as to that fact. Was he playing possum? If he were it behooved him to get all the fun out of it he could now, for after election—— Did Julie think that that insult to her would go unpunished? Trafford’s hand clenched on the reins. A savage thrill twisted into a muttered:

“Good Lord, I’ll choke him to his knees. He——” Fury strangled the words in his throat. His face was white, the muscles of his jaw rigid as his thoughts doubled back to the interview in his office. Cheever had been almost convincingly sincere. Had he forgotten or was he making a virtue of necessity? He must realize that a word against Julie would cost him his election. He must know that the girl with her beauty, her sweetness and tact, which she had doubtless acquired from the demands of her life at home, had the village at her feet. If there was speculation about the sudden marriage—and of course the town must see the with it or it wouldn’t be a small town—no hint of it had seeped through to him.

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