All the way to the flat he continued to think, and it was
wonderful what possibilities there seemed to be in this little
scheme of courting the society of the man who had robbed him of
his inheritance. He had worked on Bill's feelings so successfully
as to elicit a loan of a million dollars, and was just proceeding
to marry him to Elizabeth, when the cab stopped with the sudden
sharpness peculiar to New York cabs, and he woke up, to find
himself at his destination.
Bill was in bed when the bell rang, and received his late host in
his pyjamas, wondering, as he did so, whether this was the New
York custom, to foregather again after a party had been broken up,
and chat till breakfast. But Nutty, it seemed, had come with a
motive, not from a desire for more conversation.
'Sorry to disturb you, old man,' said Nutty. 'I looked in to tell
you that I was going down to the country to-morrow. I wondered
whether you would care to come and spend a day or two with us.'
Bill was delighted. This was better than he had hoped for.
'Rather!' he said. 'Thanks awfully!'
'There are plenty of trains in the afternoon,' said Nutty. 'I
don't suppose either of us will feel like getting up early. I'll
call for you here at half-past six, and we'll have an early dinner
and catch the seven-fifteen, shall we? We live very simply, you
know.
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