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They were terribly like
Natalie's eyes sometimes. The frankness was gone out of them. He
came into the room, and stood there, rigid.
"I promised mother to get her some sleeping-powders."
"Sleeping-powders!"
"She's nervous."
"Bad things, sleeping-powders," said Nolan. "Get her to take some
setting-up exercises by an open window and she'll sleep like a top."
"Do you mind, if I go, father?"
Clayton saw that it was of no use to urge the boy. Graham wanted to
avoid him, wanted to avoid an interview. The early glow of the
evening faded. Once again the sense of having lost his son almost
overwhelmed him.
"Very well," he said stiffly. And Graham went out.
However, he did not leave the house. At the door he met Doctor
Haverford. and Delight, and Clayton heard the clergyman's big bass
booming through the hall.
" - like a lamb to the slaughter!" he was saying. "And I a man of
peace!"
When he came into the library he was still holding forth with an
affectation of rage.


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