ADVENTURE. [10] II A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE. Supper that night did not bring to these two friends all the enjoyment which they had evidently anticipated. In the first place it was continually interrupted by greetings to the young physician whose unexpected return to his native town had awakened in all classes a decided enthusiasm. Then Frank was moody, he who was usually gaiety itself. He wanted to talk about the beautiful and unfortunate Miss Cavanagh, and Edgar did not, and this created embarrassment between them, an embarrassment all the more marked that there seemed to be some undefined reason for Edgar's reticence not to be explained by any obvious cause. At length Frank broke out impetuously: Supper "If you won't tell me anything about this girl, I must look up some one who will. Those cruel marks on her face have completed the charm of her beauty, and not till I know something of their history and of her, will I go to sleep to-night. So much for the impression which a woman's face can make upon an unsusceptible man." "Frank," observed the other, coldly, "I should say that[11] your time might be much better employed in relating to me the cause for your being in Marston." [11] The young lawyer started, shook himself, and laughed. "Oh, true, I had forgotten," said he, and supper being now over he got up and began pacing the floor. "Do you know any one here by the name of Harriet Smith?" "No," returned the other, "but I have been away a year, and many persons may have come into town in that time." "But I mean an old resident," Frank explained, "a lady of years, possibly a widow." "I never heard of such a person," rejoined Edgar. "Are you sure there is such a woman in town? I should be apt to know it if there were." "I am not sure she is here now, or for that matter that she is living, but if she is not and I learn the names and whereabouts of any heirs she may have left behind her, I shall be satisfied with the results of my journey. Harriet Smith! Surely you have heard of her." "No," Edgar protested, "I have not."
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