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He glanced toward the doorway. "But we fooled 'em. Ed got away, so I reckon I'll throw in with you, Spider." Pete tried to lift himself up, but the nurse pressed him gently back. Tiny beads of sweat glistened on his forehead. Doris put her hand on the back of his. At the touch his lips moved. "Boca was down there in the dark smilin' and tellin' me it was all right and to come ahead," he whispered.
His peculiar power was that of changing his shape at will. Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, was so beautiful that Jupiter himself sought her in marriage; but having learned from Prometheus the Titan that Thetis should bear a son who should grow greater than his father, Jupiter desisted from his suit and decreed that Thetis should be the wife of a mortal.
"It is a new frock, I know," cried Betty laughingly. "And it is very choice. I can tell by the way it is wrapped. Open it quick! I'm on pins and needles." "It is a nice cord; don't cut it," interposed Aunt Elizabeth. Betty picked out the knot. There was another wrapper inside, and this had on it "Miss Betty Leverett. From her little cousin, Doris Adams." Mr.
Next morning, not much more than an hour after sunrise, as we were again enjoying flageolet music from Agathemer, Alopex returned and reported that he had found a clean, roomy, seaworthy ship, captained by a man well and favorably known to him and Doris, which would sail for Rome at dawn next day. "That's your ship," said Doris to us.
While the tea was still circulating and they were deep in discussing the various sorts of girls surrounding their corner, Doris came over to them with a word of regret for her early flitting. "It's my short hour today, and I have a lesson in domestic science to give over in Brooklyn. I'm late, too," she said, pulling into her gloves with nervous haste and glancing at the window near their corner.
"Yes, Doris," he whispered at last. "In what way?" Again she had to wait for his reply. "It it would save me..." "Save you?" "...from a grave difficulty..." "Difficulty?" "...disgrace." His head drooped. And suddenly all that mattered to heart was swamped by a wave of loving pity. She ran round to him and clasped him, and kissed him. "Oh, my dear," she sighed, "it was never, never your fault."
Captain Conklin is going to start for China in a few days, and there was so much to talk about I couldn't get away." "If I had been real sure he would have come on I would have started. It has blown off cold. Didn't you have a breezy ride? Were you warm enough, Doris?" "It was splendid," replied Doris, her eyes shining. "And I have seen so many things."
It was all so reassuringly ordinary that he grinned to himself. Whatever hold this little worm had on Doris Shaw had even ceased to be a snake at this point in Laurie's reflections would be loosed after to-night; and then she could forget the episode that had troubled her, whatever it was.
After a little there came a rush of skirts, and Miss Kellner ran down the steps, dressed for the street. "Doris," he pleaded, "you must not go out now. Wait just a moment we'll find a way, and then I'll go with you." She tried to pass him, but his outstretched arms made her a prisoner. "Do I understand that you refuse to let me go?" she asked tensely. "Not like this," he replied.
"I have been making arrangements for you to drive to Wynhampton with me." Doris made a stiff movement that seemed almost mechanical. But the next moment she recovered her self-control. Why was she afraid of this man, she asked herself desperately? No man had ever managed to frighten her before. "I think I should prefer to go in the motor," she said, and smiled with quivering lips.
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