He was silent. But his eyes were on her, pleadingly.
"Would you care, Frank? Would you care--at all?"
"You know I would," he spoke half angrily. The girl traced patterns with her fork upon the table cloth.
"I am going South," Francisco told his son. "I cannot bear this."
CHAPTER LXXXII
AT BAY
On May 21, the United Railway Company received a franchise to electrize any of its street-car routes, "where grades permitted."