' He was very mild, and yet there was something sinister and
Scotch about him that the boy felt.
"'Of course I'd pay it out of my own money,' he remarks generously.
"'Even so, I hate to see you cheated,' says his father kindly. 'I hate
to have you pay unjust extortions out of the mere pittance your
tight-fisted old father allows you.'
"Young Angus said nothing to this, but blushed and coughed
uncomfortably.
"'If you hurt that hotel anything like twenty-three hundred dollars'
worth, it must be an interesting sight,' his father goes on brightly.
"'Oh, it was funny at the time,' says Angus boy, cheering up again.
"'Things often are,' says old Angus. 'I'll have a look.'
"'At the bill?'
"'No, at the wreck,' says he. The old boy was still quiet on the
outside, but was plainly under great excitement, for he now folded his
napkin with care, a crime of which I knew Ellabelle had broken him the
first week in New York, years before. I noticed their butler had the
fine feeling to look steadily away at the wall during this obscenity.
The offender then made a pleasant remark about the beauty of the day and
left the palatial apartment swiftly.
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