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Suddenly he paused as he unfolded a piece of note paper, and we gathered around to read: MY DEAR STELLA: Have something very important to tell you. Will you lunch Tuesday at the P. G. tearoom? "Tuesday " murmured Kennedy. "And this is Monday. Who who is Larry, I wonder?" I hastened to answer the question for him. It was my first opportunity to display my knowledge of the picture players.
The only exposure to the sharp eyes of your enemies will be, first, when I substitute myself for you and take your automobile back home; second, when I go down to the theatrical district, to visit a well-known tearoom where I learn you are a frequent guest. There the wall tables are shrouded by decorations, and I shall keep in the shadow and talk as little as possible.
Toots was one blaze of jewellery and buttons, and all the other young gentlemen were tightly cravatted, curled, and pumped, and all came in with their hats in their hands at separate times and were announced and introduced. Soon Paul slipped down from the cushioned corner of a sofa, and went downstairs into the tearoom to be ready for Florence.
"If you don't want to know the man, say you've never met him before, and bounce it," Miss Dawson called after her in contemptuous tones as she disappeared. Two short flights of stairs led from shop to tearoom, and these were divided by a small landing, where spare cups and saucers and teapots were stacked. From the upper flight the lower was invisible.
Berry promised and the four ran away to get ready for their last afternoon together. "Dress up pretty, girls," Alicia called from her room. "No telling whom we might meet at the tearoom." "That's so," said Dotty; "put on your Dresden silk, Doll." Dolly laughingly agreed, and the four dressed-up young ladies started off.
Presently an attendant passed through the tearoom bearing a tremendous silver mace, perhaps five feet long, surmounted by a massive crown and cross, and looking like nothing so much as a "gigantic war-club." This is the mace which, when deposited on the president's desk in the lecture-room beyond, will signify that the society is in session.
You know the tearoom brand of waitress maybe, and how distant they can be? But this one fairly sneers at us as she takes our order; although I kind of shrivels up in the chair and acts as humble as I know how. "That ain't Sister Evelyn, is it?" says I, as she disappears towards the back. "No, no," says Steele. "Miss Webb is at the little cashier's desk, by the door.
With an expression I failed to analyze until long afterward she sought to claw at the murderer's unprotected features, twitching now in impotent fury. "You wrote that note for her to meet you at the tearoom," Kennedy muttered, eyes narrowing grimly, "knowing she would be dead before that time.
Lunch, unless there was a rush of business or Mr Waller happened to suffer from a spasm of conscientiousness, could be spun out from half past twelve to two. More work from two till half past three. From half past three till half past four tea in the tearoom, with a novel.
She seemed to be talking to the distant face, defending her mother and herself with a kind of unwilling deference. "After all, do I really care what he thinks?" She turned and went her way to the tearoom. As she entered it she saw some acquaintances at the farther end, who waved their hands to her, beckoning her to join them.
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