Where Two Ways Met by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63058-200-5
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

June’s brief letter was waiting for him the next morning when he got home to breakfast. It lay by his place. He tore it open and was filled with a strange disappointment when he read that she was away. He hadn’t known that he was looking forward to seeing her and talking with her. And suddenly he knew that he had been going to tell her about that afternoon at the funeral. And now she was gone! Perhaps he would never see her again. She did not say how long she was likely to stay.

He turned to the poem and read it through. Almost he could hear her voice saying the words.

Then his mother came in with fresh coffee, and he folded the letter and enclosure and put them in his pocket. Somehow he did not feel ready to part with them yet. He wanted to read them over again. Meantime, he was going to meet his boss, and perhaps they would be a sort of talisman to guard him from making any mistakes. For he felt a misgiving about how his boss would think he had handled this important business.

He swallowed his coffee, gave his mother another brief kiss, and darted out to his car, his hand on the folded letter in his pocket, taking comfort from it. He was cheered by the thought that June had remembered to send the poem. And somehow he felt, even just from the single reading, that it would chime right in with his experiences with his new Lord.

Back in his office he found a pile of mail that had to be attended to at once, and he and his secretary were deep into dictation when there came a call from Mr. Chalmers.

“Madison come yet? Send him in at once!” and the receiver slammed into place. Somehow the very click of the instrument sent a shiver through Paige’s shoulders. How silly, he told himself as he swung out of his chair and went toward the boss’s office.

“Well, Madison, I see you have returned. I hope you had a successful trip.”

“Why, I think so, Mr. Chalmers. I would have been in here with a report before, but I thought you would be busy the first thing in the morning with your mail, so I waited to get a few important letters out of the way.”

“Well, I came down a little early this morning. I was anxious to hear your report. Did you have any trouble? Served all three foreclosures?”

“No,” said Madison, “I only served one. The others both paid up.”

“Paid up!” gasped Chalmers, springing up from his chair. “But I thought I gave definite orders that all three must be foreclosed! What business did you have to go against my orders?”

“I beg your pardon, Mr. Chalmers. I do not recall your having told me not to receive the money if it was given to me. I supposed, of course, payment was the most desirable.” Paige’s tone had a new dignity, and Mr. Chalmers

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