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A few minutes more, and the whole party stood on the Montanvert beside the small inn which has been erected there for the use of summer tourists, and from which point the great glacier broke for the first time in all its grandeur, on their view. Well might Emma and Nita stand entranced for some time, unable to find utterance to their feelings, save in the one word wonderful!
After a time I told Nita quietly that I had seen some strange Indians, and that I thought it wise to be on our guard against them; indeed, as we might possibly find a large party of them, and be obliged to retreat in a hurry, it would be better to pack up and be prepared for a start, as we were not in a spot where we could well defend ourselves if attacked.
He saw it clearly in imagination that bronze floor-lamp which Lydia Carr had given to Nita Leigh, its big round bowl studded with great jewels of colored glass. And in recalling every detail of the lamp he saw what he had dismissed as of no importance at the time, in the excitement of finding that the lamp's bulb had been shattered by the "bang or bump" which Flora Miles had described.
"Say, Steve," Ross went on after a moment's pause, his voice deepening with an emotion he could no longer deny. "I handed you a big talk of seeing your Nita and the little kid safe till you got back. We did all we knew. Millie and the gals did all they knew. Nita wanted for nothing.
Let's agree how we shall introduce Miss Hicks to the bunch. She must choose a name " "Why, call yourself 'Nita, if you want to, dear," said Helen, patting the western girl's arm. "That's the name you ran away with." "But I'm ashamed of that. I know it is silly and I chose it for a silly reason.
They seem to think it's all right." Betty pulled on her gray kimono, brushed the hair out of her eyes, and followed Nita through the hall and up-stairs to the fourth floor. There was a wilderness of trunks in the narrow passages. Every girl must have three at least, Betty thought. And their owners appeared to be in no haste about unpacking; the serious business of the hour was conversation.
"We were playing bridge, the last hand of the last rubber, because the men were arriving for cocktails, when Nita became dummy and went to her bedroom to " "To make herself 'pretty-pretty' for the men," Mrs.
"Sure. I waited for that before I came along." The man moistened his lips. It was a curiously unpleasant operation. Then he came a step nearer. "Well, Nita," he said, with a world of meaning in eyes and tone. "We're rid of him for two years anyway." The girl started. The flush in her cheeks deepened, and the angry light again leapt into her eyes. "What d'you mean?" she cried. The man laughed.
Beneath the picture was the caption: "What part does the outmoded royal blue velvet dress which Nita Selim chose as a shroud play in the solution of her murder?... That is the question which Special Investigator Dundee, attached to the district attorney's office, who is due home this morning from fruitful detective work in New York, is undoubtedly prepared to answer."
Street after street he could recall, from the square about the "depot" to the outskirts, and through them all the dusty heat, the rockers, gigglers, the rustle of a shirt-sleeved father's newspaper, and the shrill coo-ees of the younger children. Finally, the piano for he looked back farther than the all-conquering phonograph. He heard "Nita, Juanita;" he heard "Sweet Genevieve."
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