"
"The Moretons disapprove," repeated Crystal, to whom the idea was not
at all agreeable.
"Disapprove, nonsense!" said Eddie. "I believe he came to blackmail
you. To see what he could get out of you if he offered to stop the
marriage. Well, why not? If these fellows believe all the money ought
to be taken away from the capitalists, why should they care how
it's done? I can't see much difference between robbing a man, and
legislating his fortune out of--"
"Well, I must tell you, father dear," said Crystal, exactly as if
Eddie had not been speaking, "that I think it was horrid of you not to
have me called when you must have known--"
"Crystal, you're scolding me," wailed her father. "And most unjustly.
I did ask him to lunch just for your sake, although I saw Eddie was
shocked, and I was afraid Tomes would give warning. But I did ask him,
only he wouldn't stay."
Crystal rose from the table with her eye on the clock, and they began
to make their way back to Mr. Cord's study, as she asked:
"Why wouldn't he stay?"
"I gathered because he didn't want to. Perhaps he was afraid he'd have
to argue with Eddie about capital and labor all through lunch. And of
course he did not know that I had another beautiful daughter sleeping
off the effects of a late party, or very likely he would have
accepted."
Very likely he would.
Just as they entered the study, the telephone rang.
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