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Daphne and Chuck and Jerry and Howard were in their car, and they squeezed up to make room for Janet and Phyllis. Mr. Keith sat in the front beside the driver. A buzz of questions and speculations rose from every car, but no one seemed to have the least idea where they were going. They picked their way carefully through the city streets, but once in the country they flew along.
But Phyllis gave her no time. With Rags at their heels, they snatched up some wraps and all suddenly burst out of the front door onto the veranda, Phyllis having stopped only long enough to take up her electric torch from the living-room table. She switched this on in the darkness, and, guided by its light, they plunged into the storm. The force of the wind almost took their breath away.
I know my good points, and I am not unacquainted with my weak ones. Unhappily I can figure out my age to a day. Alas, I am forty-eight, and Phyllis is not yet twenty-three. The difference is positively ghastly from a sentimental standpoint, but if I love her, and she is not hopelessly indifferent to me, I think that even that difficulty can be bridged.
He fastened the door again as soon as she had entered. 'If I could have thought it! sighed he. 'Fool that I was, not to lock the door! 'Then you were not there? Phyllis says that she did it by banging the door. Is not that nonsense? 'Not at all. Now, mine was on the same principle.
Sha'n't I push this pillow so?" she won a grudging "good night" for her pains. After supper the girls went up to the widow's walk. It was a cold, clear night, myriad stars winked down at them from the ice-blue sky, below them the water lapped the beach incessantly, and the foam sparkled in the starshine. The girls watched it in silence for a minute, and then Phyllis said,
Annie Millar yes, certainly and Phyllis Flower, and Agnes Sparkes every single one of you shall come back with me. It will be Poverty Castle, my loves, and we'll have to stint and scrape and contrive; but at any rate we'll be merry when we can be merry, and we'll forget our troubles in doing good to others." Nothing could exceed the heartiness of Mrs. Brett's manner.
It was a deliberate attempt at retarding action by a malicious irritating of the mind. I think I ought to cite it in psychology class." Several days after the game Nina Merrill went privately to Phyllis and frankly asked her a number of questions. Receiving blunt answers which tallied with a rumor she had heard, she laid the matter before Ruth Hale and both girls resigned from the junior team.
When they were out on the street, Leslie clutched Phyllis spasmodically and her eyes were almost popping out of her head. "Is there the least doubt in your mind now, Phyllis Kelvin?" she demanded. "Her name is Ramsay the very same name that was on the envelop in the book!" And Phyllis was obliged to acknowledge herself convinced. THE two girls walked home in a state bordering on stupefaction.
Dolores was much amused, as she told her Aunt Jane, to see how gratified they were at the "sanguine" colouring of Phyllis and Wilfred, quite Merrifields, they said, though Phyllis with auburn eyes and hair was far handsomer than any other of the clan had ever been; and Wilfred had simply commonplace carrots and freckles.
From Waite's statement it was the loss of the papers which left him helpless to openly resist the claim being made upon him on behalf of the mysterious Phyllis. His only hope, therefore, lay in recovering these; but, with time limited, he had been sent back on a wild goose chase, while Keith alone knew, with any degree of positiveness, where those documents really were.
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