"How do you
feel about Maggie now?"
"The same as before."
"You love her?"
"Yes--and always will," he said firmly.
She was silent once more. Then, "What are you going to do next?"
"Break things up between her and Barney and her father. Get her away
from them."
She asked no further questions. Larry was as settled as a man could
be. But was Maggie worth while?--that was the great question still
unanswered.
"Just what did you want me for, grandmother?" he asked her finally.
"Something which I thought might have developed, but which hasn't."
And so she let him go away without telling him. And wishing to shape
things for the best for him, she was troubled by the same doubts as
before.
His visit with his grandmother had had no meaning to Larry, since he
had no guess of the struggle going on within that ancient, inscrutable
figure. The visit had for him merely served to fill in a nervous,
useless hour. His rage against Barney had all the while possessed him
too thoroughly for him to give more than the mere surface of his mind
to what had passed between his grandmother and himself. And when he
had left her, his rage at Barney's treachery and his impetuous desire
to snatch Maggie away from her present influences, so stormed within
him that his usually cautious judgment was blown away and recklessness
swept like a gale into control of him.
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