In a sense
you're right. It will make them sullen and angry. But they won't
go the limit without booze. I'd advise cache-ing a lot of it
somewhere, to be administered when needed."
Doyle returned to his old place on the hearth-rug, still thoughtful.
He had paid no attention to Aker's views on Prohibition, nor to the
paper laid upon the desk in the center of the room.
"Do you know that that girl in the hall will be worth forty million
dollars some day?"
"Some money," said Akers, calmly. "Which reminds me, Jim, that
I've got to have a raise. And pretty soon."
"You get plenty, if you'd leave women alone."
"Tell them to leave me alone, then," said Akers, stretching out his
long legs. "All right. We'll talk about that, after dinner. What
about this forty millions?"
Doyle looked at him quickly. Akers' speech about women had
crystallized the vague plans which Lily's arrival had suddenly given
rise to. He gave the young man a careful scrutiny, from his handsome
head to his feet, and smiled. It had occurred to him that the
Cardew family would loathe a man of Louis Akers' type with an entire
and whole-hearted loathing.
"You might try to make her have a pleasant evening," he suggested
dryly.
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