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`` May I have an interview with you at your house to-night ? It is for this that I ask the postponement . '' `` Certainly , '' Gorham replied , wonderingly . `` I will see you at nine o'clock . '' `` I thank you , '' said Covington , rising and leaving the office without further comment . Gorham received two callers on that Saturday night . Sanford came first , and the heartiness of the welcome extended him thawed out the blustering exterior which made it so difficult for the warm heart underneath to assert itself .