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However, Terry accepted her sentence in silence. She never thought of disobeying a direct command like this; for it was true, as she had often said, that she never did a thing which she believed at the time to be wrong. It would be clearly wrong to refuse to do her practising when Nurse and Gran'ma had decreed that it was to be done, and so she recognized that the hated ordeal must be faced.
It was no use to tell ourselves and one another that all this was idle speculation. We were idle and we did speculate, on the ocean voyage and the river voyage, too. "Admitting the improbability," we'd begin solemnly, and then launch out again. "They would fight among themselves," Terry insisted. "Women always do. We mustn't look to find any sort of order and organization."
Probably for most men words were not necessary; for them their happiness was herself. From her end of the couch Maisie smiled at Tabs dreamily. "You're persistent when you want anything. I suppose you always get your desires?" "The little things, yes," he replied. "But the big things they evade me." "You mean Terry."
Bridges, you're a scoundrel and I can beat you any three games out of five and I'll bet you ten thousan' dollars on it, any time! An' as for that thief of a Temple's squidge-faced girl Come in. Damn it all, come in and be done with it!" And as he unlocked the door with a hand that shook and flung it wide open he and Terry Temple confronted each other for the first time.
And three cheers in the same fashion followed for Terry's native land. "Tare an' ages!" cried Terry; "an' while we're about it, sure an' we's ought to give three chairs for Africa, in honor of Jericho." "Hooray!" cried Zac. "Here goes!" And three cheers followed for Africa.
"There was a great deal of talk," said Vance he must make doubly sure of Terence now. "And they even started a little lynching party. But we stopped all that. Gainor made a very nice little speech about you. And now Elizabeth is waiting for you in the library." Terry bit his lip. "And she?" he asked anxiously. "There's nothing to worry about," Vance assured him.
He had a shrewd notion that Jopp had an idea of marrying Molly Mackinder if he could, cousins though they were; and he was also aware that Jopp, knowing Molly's liking for Terry, had tried to poison her mind against him, through suggestive gossip about a little widow at Jansen, thirty miles away.
He faced about quickly as the door opened and at sight of me his face lightened. He was growing pathetically pleased at having anyone with whom he could talk. "Rad," I said with an air of cheerfulness which was not entirely assumed, "I hope we're nearing the end of our trouble at last. This is Mr. Patten Terry Patten of New York, who has come to help me unravel the mystery."
"So if I'm to help," he picked up his thread, "you mustn't mock. It isn't decent, Terry; the situation's too serious. Let me have the facts. How does she come by all these different names? Does she call herself something different with each new dress?" Terry's eyes were wide and sorry.
The words had hardly passed the lips of the startled Terry Clark, when the strange animal was seen in the path in front of them, in precisely the same position as when first noticed. He had evidently passed around to the front, as though determined to study the boys from every point of view.
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