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"I had hoped to do the same!" he whispered.
"Really?" she asked.
"More than really! May I?" leaning forward.
"If you care to, Captain Snodgrass. It will be very pleasant to have you
on board."
"And afterward?"
"You may not care for the afterward," she murmured.
"I'll risk it!" he exclaimed. "We'll sail tomorrow."
"And the letter?" she asked.
"I'll get it for you--or have it along!"
"What about the consideration?"
"Hang the consideration. I'll pay it myself, if need be."
"No, no, my friend!" she laughed. "I'm not worth so much, nor anything
near it. And even though I were, I'd not permit the wasteful
extravagance."
She might have added that she had no objection whatever to his wasteful
extravagance, in fact, she would rather encourage it, if she were its
object. Only that must come later--after the present business was
finished, and they had sailed from New York. How long the extravagance
would continue was dependent on the depth of his purse and his
disposition.
"Wasteful extravagance does not apply where you are concerned," he
replied. "However, we'll let Germany pay the consideration, and I'll
have that much more to spend on you."
She rewarded him with one of her alluringly ravishing smiles and a touch
of her slender foot.
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