"Stout, Rex - Warner and Wife" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stout Rex)

"Nothing," said Mr. Warner lamely.

"What were you going to say?"

"Why-- advice-- if you needed my advice--"

"Your advice! Do you think by any chance I need your advice?"

"My dear, goodness no!" exclaimed Mr. Warner, as though the idea were preposterous.

WARNER & WIFE

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"I should hope not," his wife agreed. "I am quite able to manage my business without you,
Timmie. Only, as you do nothing but sit around and read, I thought you might have happened on
something that would throw light on the question of annulled liens, which is intricately involved
and has an important bearing on this case. But I believe I have it very well in hand."

"There is plenty of time till the twenty-fifth," Mr. Warner observed diffidently.

"There is," assented his wife. "But that has nothing to do with this. The case has been put
forward. It is calendared for today."

"Today! But what--then perhaps-- I can look it over this morning and see you at lunch-- at recess- -
"

"My dear Timmie," smiled Mrs. Warner, "you appear to think I do need your advice. Don't
trouble yourself. I have it well in hand. Play solitaire by all means." She moved toward the door.

"At ten dollars a point," announced Mr. Warner to her back, "I am sixty- two thousand dollars
ahead of the game."

"Fine!" She sent a derisive smile over her shoulder. "By- by, Timmie!"

Mr. Warner gazed at the closed door for a full thirty seconds, then turned and went to his own
room to complete his interrupted toilet. That done, he went downstairs to the dining room.

Sadie, the cook, appeared in the doorway.

"Good morning!" she observed unamiably.

"I see I am late," returned Mr. Warner with a weak attempt at cheerfulness. "Do you suppose I
could have a couple of eggs, Sadie?"

"Fried or boiled?"

"Well-- shirred."