He has it now over his
desk. His father's portrait is on the opposite wall. Should you care to
step across the hall into my grandson's rooms? The portraits I speak of
are in the second room of the suite. Stop and examine anything else that
interests you; I am sure he would be proud; and he has brought back many
interesting things, principally pictures, from his travels. I should
like to go with you, but if you will be so kind--"
There was no refusing the enthusiastic old man. He sent his housekeeper
to see that the rooms were open of window and ready for inspection, then
waved his guests away. Mrs. Stephen went with alacrity; Roberta followed
more slowly, as if she somehow feared to go. Of all the odd
happenings!--that she should be walking into Richard Kendrick's own
habitation, with all the intimate revelations it was bound to make to
her. She wondered what he would say if he knew.
The first room was precisely what she might have expected, quite
obviously the apartment of a modern young man whose wishes lacked no
opportunity to satisfy themselves. The room was not in bad taste; on the
contrary, its somewhat heavy furnishings had an air of dignity in
harmony with an earlier day than that more ostentatious period in which
the rest of the house had been fitted.
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