Vivette Author:Gelett Burgess Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A TELEPHONE COURTSHIP Attempted Burglary of a Castle in the Air. N this wise I passed many pleasant months. My intimate , association with the sprightly... more » Vi- T vette had laid the foundation for r. A T-vt-io i T L j i 4- KJIZiAJJr!i oj. an emotion that 1 had the greatest T AirTrrnTTiT- T j-in i - v j L 4- Mm tiUL) J. difficulty in concealing, and yet her M M £ elusive manner, when I dared to approach her in a more personal way, utterly disheartened me. Our numerous interviews had given me the chance of seeing many sides of her character, but there had not been one not altogether entrancing ; whatever facet was turned toward me, there was ever the flash of the diamond, revealing the true Vivette. She seemed fond of me, too, in a way, but held off a little, as if waiting for something to happen by which she should be guided. I chafed under the restraint, knowing well enough that it was because I cared too much that I had lost my confidence. But when I first discovered that the thick old director had his own designs upon Vivette, it was all I could do to restrain myself. I felt sure enough that she would not tolerate any attentions he might be fool enough to offer, but the very thought of its possibility made me a little uncomfortable with her. In such a mood I was one day summoned to the director's office. How well I remember it 1 Birthday Presence. I become Poacher. It was my twenty-fifth birthday. The demeanour of the old man offended me hugely, and his insinuations that I had been using the machinery of the Association to further my designs upon the fortune of one of his most trusted and valued agents aroused me to a fury. It was plain to see that he had begun his dotage, and his insufferable conceit in thinking that his position could pr...« less