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Nothing that Manco or his wife could say had power to deter me. "You will be taken by the cruel Spaniards, and executed as a spy," said Nita, the tears dropping from her eyes as she spoke. "No Indian on whom you can rely will be able to accompany you, and you cannot find your way alone," observed Manco.
Before any more could be said Janet opened the door, saying, "Mother, Emma wants to see you." "Oh! I forgot," cried Carey, hurrying off, while Janet came forward to the guest in her grown-up way, and asked "Have you been to the Water-Colour Exhibition, Miss Ogilvie?" "Yes; Mr. Acton took me one Saturday afternoon." "Oh! then he would be sure to show you Nita Ray's picture.
When at last act three was finished it was ten o'clock and Nita gave a sigh of utter exhaustion. "If Madeline's rule holds," she said, "this play ought to go like clockwork to-morrow." And it did, despite the rather dubious tone of the chairman's prophecy. The Princess arrived duly just after luncheon, and everybody except the cast, who would do their share later, helped to entertain her.
"For God's sake care for her, Nita," he cried. "She's ours and she's all we've got. Here, kiss me, dear. I can't stop another moment, or or I'll make a fool of myself." The girl turned her face up and the man's passionate kisses were given across the small atom which was the pledge of their early love. Then Steve straightened up in the saddle and replaced his hat.
What's going to become of her? And somebody else said that it was harder on her Nita's death, I mean than on anybody else, because Nita was all she had in the world, and then Lois Lois is always practical, you know ran to telephone Police Headquarters, to see what had been done with Lydia, and to see if it would be all right for Flora and me to take her home with us " "Just a minute, Miles!
Not for him to explain that practically all women and many men found themselves "gossiping" when he led them on adroitly, for reasons of his own. Which of course helped make him the excellent detective he was. "So all the men in your crowd have fallen for Nita Selim, have they?"
His deep-set eyes were turned to the view beyond the door, and his thoughts were still further afield. He was thinking of the pretty, eager face he had watched at the bachelors' dance at Deadwater. He was thinking of the men who had approached Nita with the ceremony which had so delighted her.
"Why, nothing has actually happened, only I was at the station this afternoon, and I asked the shoe-shine man about the monkey, and he hasn't heard, but he told the organ-man that the play began at half-past eight, and all the trains have been horribly late to-day, so if he should plan to get in on the eight-fifteen " "Have him telegraph that it begins at six," said Nita, firmly.
District Attorney Sanderson, Captain Strawn and Dundee were alone in the house where Nita "Selim" had been murdered and where her husband had confessed his crimes by committing suicide. The morgue ambulance had come and gone....
Suddenly Dundee flung back the moss-green Wilton rug which almost entirely covered the bedroom floor and revealed the bell which Dexter Sprague had rigged up so that Nita might summon Lydia from her basement room, in case of dire need a precaution with which the murderer was probably familiar, since Lois Dunlap might innocently have spread the news of its existence.
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