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Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon
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affairs arranged by that time. I would not let him resign the
presidency. It would seem as if I were taking it away from him. We
expect to be in Europe for six or eight months. Then, I am coming
back to New York, where I was born, Graydon--to work!"

He went away with the feeling in his heart that he was not to see
her again. A single atom of determination lingered in his soul,
however, and he tried to build upon it for the future. Rigby's wedding
invitation had come to him that morning--almost as a mockery. He
tore it to pieces with a scowl of recollection.

Droom's effects were on the way to New York. He hung back, humbly
waiting for Graydon to suggest that they should travel East on the
same train. His grim, friendless old heart gave a bound of pure
joy--the first he had known--when the young man made the suggestion
that night.

Together they travelled eastward and homeward, leaving behind them
the grey man in stripes.

Jane's six months in Europe grew into a year--and longer. It was
a long but a profitable year for Graydon Bansemer; he had been
enriched not only in wealth but in the hope of ultimate happiness.
Not that Jane encouraged him. Far from it, she was more obdurate
than ever with an ocean between them. But his atom of determination
had grown to a purpose. His face was thinner and his eyes were of
a deeper, more wistful grey; they were full of longing for the girl
across the sea, and of pity and yearning for the man back there in
the West.

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