"Steady
now! Leave out the pet names. What is it you've got to tell?"
"I--my sister and I have found out what a scoundrel he is, that's what!
We've learned of the lies he wrote about father. We know that he was
responsible for all that cowardly, lying stuff in the Planet--all that
about the Trolley Combine. And we don't intend that he shall sneak into
this house again. If he was the least part of a man, he would never have
come."
"Mr. Warren--" began Pearson, stepping forward. The captain interrupted.
"Hold on, Jim!" he said. "Just a minute now. You've learned somethin',
you say, Stevie. The Dunns told you, I s'pose."
"Never mind who told me!"
"I don't--much. But I guess we'd better have a clear understandin', all
of us. Caroline, will you come in here, please?"
He stepped toward the door. Stephen sprang in front of him.
"My sister doesn't intend to cheapen herself by entering that man's
presence," he declared, hotly. "I'll deal with him, myself!"
"All right. But I guess she'd better be here, just the same. Caroline, I
want you."
"She sha'n't come!"
"Yes, she shall. Caroline!"
The boy would have detained him, but he pushed him firmly aside and
walked toward the door. Before he reached it, however, his niece
appeared.
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