The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey
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"I am going to one of them."
"Which?" "King's Crest." A moment's silence. Then, "That's my home. I have lived there all my life." The lame man gave him a sharp glance. "I heard of it in Washington--delightful atmosphere--and all that----" "You are going as a--paying guest?" "Yes." A deep flush stained the younger man's face. Suddenly he broke out. "If you knew how rotten it seems to me to have my mother keeping--boarders----" "My dear fellow, I hope you don't think it is going to be rotten to have me?" "No. But there are other people. And I didn't know until I came back from France---- She had to tell me when she knew I was coming." "She had been doing it all the time you were away?" "Yes. Before I went we had mortgaged things to help me through the University. I should have finished in a year if I hadn't enlisted. And Mother insisted there was enough for her. But there wasn't with the |
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