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It was the last day of Archie's holidays, and though it was rather cold
his mother insisted on taking him with her.
Aylmer tried to hide the shade that came over his face when he saw the
boy, but remembering that he had undertaken to be a father to him, he
cheered up as soon as Archie was settled.
It was a lovely autumn day, one of those warm Indian-summer days that
resemble early spring. There is the same suggestion of warmer sunshine
yet to come; the air has a scent as of growing things, the kind of
muffled hopes and suppressed excitement of April is in the deceptive
air. This sort of day is dangerous to charming people not in their very
first youth.
* * * * *
In high spirits and beyond the speed limit they started for Richmond.
CHAPTER XXIII
A week later Aylmer and his son were sitting looking at each other in
the old brown library. Teddy had come over for ten days' leave from
somewhere in France. Everyone, except his father, was astonished how
little he had changed. He seemed exactly the same, although he had gone
through strange experiences.
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