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Early in the evening the two boys went up to the Van der Donk house, being met by Margaret, who seemed very glad to see them, and said: "We have been busy putting things to rights, and if it does not look very tidy here you must excuse it. Gabrielle has gone away, no one knows why or where." Jack glanced significantly at Percival, and said carelessly: "Gabrielle? She was the nurse?"
Whatever else her purpose might be, one object was clearly connected with the presence there of Percival. She had sought his room, fleeing immediately on discovering it to be occupied by another. Very well! this meant that he already had two distinct lines of investigation opened to him the woman, and the man. The first was like pursuing a shadow, but Coolidge was real enough.
So?" he joined forces with the nesan to get Percival out of his clothes and into the fresh-flowered kimono that lay on the mat. "But I never take a tub in the afternoon," persisted Percival. Preparations went politely, but steadily, forward. "What's this she's putting on me?" he cried. "I say, I won't wear a sash; the whole thing's too beastly silly. Tell her to take it off."
Percival, in the simplicity of his heart, overflowed with the joy of it. "Sancie in Berkeley Square where Lord Rosebery lives: think of that, my dear!" And Mrs. Percival, who knew where Lord Rosebery lived as well as anybody, would reply, "These things will be balanced hereafter. Neither you nor I, Welbore, are assessing angels, I believe.
The editor looked puzzled and Percival explained briefly, Brooke laughing and adding: "That was very funny, accusing Sheldon of plagiarizing his own stuff. I never heard anything quite so queer." "And all on account of his not reading your paper," rejoined Percival with a wink at Jack. "You should make an editorial of this, Mr. Brooke."
The captain was called away at that moment, and Rodney, glancing at the envelopes he held in his hand, was somewhat startled to find that one of them was addressed to Erastus Percival. "I wonder if that can be Tom Percival's father," said he. "If I thought it was, I wouldn't present this letter to him for all the money there is in Missouri. He would turn me over to the Yankees at once."
But where was one to look for her? "We might try the pool-rooms," suggested the chauffeur. Percival looked at him blankly, then he remembered. "Take me to a hat shop," he said peremptorily. When they arrived at Waikiki Beach he got out of the motor with more alacrity than was habitual to him, and entered the cocoanut-grove.
If I do not come to you myself the day after you receive this, dear Percival, which, indeed, is most probable, I shall send you my proxy, in one whom, for my sake, I know that you will kindly welcome. He will undertake my task, and clear up all the mysteries with which, I trust, my correspondence has thoroughly bewildered your lively imagination. Yours ever, JOHN ARDWORTH. GRAY'S INN.
During all the years of her enslavement she had been a patron of the nearest public library, and it had been a source of great disappointment to her that Algernon and Percival had made no least attempt to acquire the grace of speech and manner which she had learned to associate with those lordly titles. And now they were refusing even to approach the Pierian Spring!
Laura was near enough to hear the last word, softly as he whispered it. She turned to me with a look of terror. "Nonsense, my dear," I said. "There is no need to be alarmed. It is only the blood of a poor little stray dog." Everybody was astonished, and everybody's eyes were fixed on me inquiringly. "How do you know that?" asked Sir Percival, speaking first.
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