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Dr Richards was sent for, who shook his head, and ordered quiet and rest. Mrs Prothero and Gladys were with her, and as she was continually sleeping, no one else was admitted. Mr and Mrs Jonathan left early, after having made friends with Minette, who confided to them that she liked them better than grandpapa and grandmamma, because they were gentlefolks.
All that day I neglected my tasks for the study of my own engrossing business, but when evening came and I started home I was able to say to myself that I had reached a definite and unchanging conclusion I loved Gladys Todd; like all of us, she had her peccadilloes, and yet I was not worthy of her, but I would try to be; the girl with the blue wings bobbing so majestically in her hat was not Penelope Blight.
Suddenly she looked eagerly round the room, and said, in her clear contralto voice, 'Where is my cheiromantist? 'Your what, Gladys? exclaimed the Duchess, giving an involuntary start. 'My cheiromantist, Duchess; I can't live without him at present.
"This is pretty bad," she called. "Better luck next time, Nell!" Marcia Bates waved her hand gaily to them, but Gladys Cooper, her eyes straight ahead, her hand on the tiller, paid no attention to them. There was no mistaking the look of triumph on her face, however. She was sure she was going to win, and she was glorying in her victory already.
The possibility of rain had never occurred to us, as the only picture we had seen in our mind's eye had been country roads gleaming in the sunshine, but Gladys said scornfully that she would like to be shown the group of Camp Fire Girls who would let themselves be put off by rain. "Let's build a Rain Jinx," said Sahwah, who always has the most whimsical inspirations. "A what?" asked Gladys.
I am sure that it was not the New England landscape, with its quaint stone fences, that he looked at out of the window, but the recollection of the bright dashing figure of Gladys Shirley.
He was divided between his anxiety for his sister, whom he really loved, and his reluctance for Gladys to see his home. But the first prevailed. 'If it wouldn't be an awful trouble to you, he said; and Gladys smiled as she gave her head a quick shake. 'No trouble; I shall be so glad. Tell me where to find the place, and I'll go after dinner, before it is dark.
'We had better make haste home, or we shall miss him, said Freda. 'Good-bye, Mrs Prothero; I will come again and settle about Gladys. It was nearly dusk when the ladies left the farm, and they walked very fast. They had not gone far when they saw some one on horseback coming towards them. 'I daresay this is your friend, and that stupid Morgan hasn't let him in, said Freda.
And when the searchers and the rescued ones reached the Halsted Camp, Gladys wasn't left long in doubt as to the fate of the vendetta she had declared against the Camp Fire Girls. For, even while she was being put to bed, she could hear the cheers that were being given by her own chums for the girls she had tried to make them despise.
"So stupid of them to have overlooked you," she said; "and I should have thought Gladys would have remembered unless " His close-set eyes focussed so near her own that she stopped, involuntarily occupied with the unusual phenomenon. "Unless what?" he asked. She was all laughing polished surface again.
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