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`` Well ! '' He rose to put the key into the door , and his son stepped down from the little porch to the brick walk . `` Mary will have dinner early , father ; and when you 've got through here , you 'd better come over and lie down a while beforehand . '' Kenton had been dropped at eight o'clock from a sleeper on the Great Three , and had refused breakfast at his son 's house , upon the plea that the porter had given him a Southern cantaloupe and a cup of coffee on the train , and he was no longer hungry . `` All right , '' he said . `` I wo n't be longer than I can help . '' He had got the door open and was going to close it again .