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Peter followed reluctantly, but curious. He was seeing a new side of life, he thought grimly. Before them a flight of stairs led straight up to a landing, but there was no sign of the girls. "What's next?" demanded Peter. "We'll be fired out in two twos if nothing worse happens. Suppose they're decent girls after all; what would you say?" "I'd ask if Mlle.
"Plenty of clue," said Average Jones suavely. "You'll find it on the sporting page, I think." "Judging from the man's appearance? Rather far-fetched, isn't it?" "Judging from a pair of very fine binoculars, a mention of Carroll Morrison's name, and, principally, some two thousand dollars in a huge heap." "I don't quite see where that leads." "No? The bills must have been mostly ones and twos.
By this time toasts and speeches had given place to songs, the wheat subject being quite forgotten. Men were putting their heads together in twos and threes, telling good stories, with pantomimic laughter which reached convulsive grimace.
I asked, but got no answer. Every eye was on the wild career of the plane. The Germans got more reckless. They stood in their trenches. We fired. We got them by the ones and twos. They ducked, then swoop again the major was over them, and again they forgot. Up went their rifles, and spatter, spatter, the bullets went singing upward.
The guests, by twos and by fours, by small groups and large parties, left the supper-room for the saloon, where the musicians struck up a grand march, and the greater portion of the company formed into a leisurely promenade as a gentle exercise after eating, and a prudent prelude to more dancing.
In groups of twos and threes they went, their sandalled feet making a soft rustling noise against the flagstones of the Forum, and their cloaks of thin woollen stuff floating out behind them as they walked. The young patricians were the first to go. The scene had ceased to be amusing and Dea Flavia was not like to bestow another smile.
Anne thanked her, and put the paper in her purse, little dreaming how much unhappiness that same paper was to cause her. The business of the afternoon having been disposed of, the girls donned street clothing and left the building, schoolgirl fashion, in groups of twos and threes. On the way out they encountered several of the victorious juniors, who managed to make their presence felt.
What became of the cattle that had disappeared, by twos and threes and sometimes more, in the last few months? Was there a gang of thieves operating in the country, and where did they stay? Why had Ward hinted that she did not like Charlie Fox, and why didn't he himself like Charlie? Why had she felt that weight of depression creep over her when they were leaving the Cove? Why? Why?
Fires were lighted, smoke curled up over the cedars, gay songs disturbed the usual serenity of the place. Later in the early twilight the curious visitors, by twos and threes, walked about the village, peering at the dark cabins and jesting among themselves. Joe had informed Shefford that all the women had been put in a limited number of cabins, so that they could be protected.
But before the weary day's journey was over the king would suddenly change his mind, stop short of the town towards which all were toiling in hope of food and shelter, and turn aside to some spot in the woods where there was perhaps a solitary hut and food only for himself: "And I believe, if I dare to say so, that he took delight in our distresses," groans the poor secretary as he pictures the knights wandering by twos and threes in the thickets, separated in the darkness from their followers, and drawing their swords one against another in furious strife for the possession of some shelter for which pigs would scarcely have quarrelled.
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