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Familiar with the character in all its aspects, Nicholas played it to the life; and, to do them justice, Dames Baldwyn, Tetlow, and Nance Redferne, were but little if at all inferior to him. There was a reality in their jealous quarrelling that gave infinite zest to the performance. "Saul o' my body!" exclaimed James, admiringly, "those are three braw women.
He covered superbly. "Oh," said he in the most indifferent tone. "Tetlow told you." "As soon as I heard that," she went on, "I felt better about you. I understand how it is with men the passing fancies they have for women." "How did you learn?" demanded he. "Do you think a girl could spend several years knocking about down town in New York without getting experience?"
Just as were the Bobbsey twins, nearly all the other pupils were thinking of what good times they had had in the country, or at the seashore, and in consequence little attention was paid to reading, spelling, arithmetic and geography. But Principal Tetlow and his teachers were prepared for this, and they were sure that, in another day or so, the boys and girls would settle down and do good work.
Tomorrow will be a holiday, and, as the weather is very warm, we will close the school at noon, and go off in the woods for a little picnic." "Oh, good!" cried a number of the boys and girls, and, though it was against the rules to speak aloud during the school hours, none of the teachers objected. "But I expect you all to have perfect marks from now until Friday," Mr. Tetlow went on.
"Not since that day ... Billy, she hasn't " Norman stopped, and Tetlow saw that his hands were trembling with agitation, and marveled. "Oh, no," replied Tetlow. "So far as I know, she's still respectable. But why don't you go to see her? I think you'd be cured." "Why do you say that?" demanded Norman, the veins in his forehead bulging with the fury he was ready to release.
"She spoke to me about leaving before I told her I had found her another job." Norman debated but for only a moment. "I do not wish her to leave," he said coldly. "I find her useful and most trustworthy." Tetlow's eyes were fixed strangely upon him. "What's the matter with you?" asked Norman, the under-note of danger but thinly covered. "Then she was right," said Tetlow slowly.
But not a man of all the men who have been knocked out could have been dislodged if he had been armed and armored with money. My prodigality was my fatal mistake. I shan't make it again if I get the chance. You don't know, Tetlow, how hard it is to get money when you are tumbling and must have it. I never dreamed what a factor it is in calamities of every sort. It's the factor."
"I'll not go," he said aloud, pushing the slip away. Go? Certainly not. He had never really meant to go. He would, of course, keep his engagement with Josephine. "And I'll not come down town until she has taken another job and has caught Tetlow. I'll stop this idiocy of trying to make an impression on a person not worth impressing. What weak vanity to be piqued by this girl's lack of interest!"
"I don't like to hear you talk that way, Norman," said Tetlow earnestly. "I've always most admired in you the fact that you weren't mercenary." "And I never shall be," said Norman, with the patient smile of a swift, keen mind at one that is slow and hard to make understand. "It isn't my nature.
I'm ashamed ashamed!" He put his arm about her shoulders. "But why shouldn't I answer?" said he in the kindly gentle tone we can all assume when a matter that agitates some one else is wholly indifferent to us. "Because it was a a trap," she answered hysterically. "Fred there was a man here this afternoon a man named Tetlow. He got in only because he said he came from you."
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