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Hurry up! There's something I do so want to tell you." Mrs. Gantry paused in the act of seating herself. "Dolores! Why must you shriek out like a magpie? Will you never forget you're a tomboy?" "I'm not, mamma. I'm simply acting as if I were one. You forget I'm a full-blown debutante. Vievie has already promised me a ball." "Behave yourself, if you wish to attend it."
"Why, Vievie!" exclaimed the girl, "I actually believe you're frightened." "No, I'm not. It's only that I must have time to to think." "Ah," said Lord James, with sympathetic readiness. "I shall go out and meet him detain him a bit." "No, no. It's very kind of you, James. But there's no need. If only you and Dolores will wait and speak with him. I I wish to hear how his voice sounds first."
Of course he believed it, and of course he planned at once to go away that's the kind of man he is! He planned to go away run off so that Vievie couldn't sacrifice herself." "My word!" "And just then Laffie Ashton came back with the wine. I believe he did it a-purpose that he wanted to get Mr. Blake intoxicated!" "The unmitigated cad! Yet why should he? It seems impossible that any man "
"Your mamma said you were to entertain me." "Best possible reason why I shouldn't," she snapped, staring hard out of the window. "What if I should try to entertain you?" "You wouldn't succeed. I wanted to talk to a man. It's too bad! Simply because you asked me to, I was silly enough to tease Vievie into coming over this afternoon and the minute he comes, she rushes him off to the conservatory."
The quickest that he could do it was to start drinking go on a spree." "Gad!" "And now you stand here like a dummy, when there's a way to save him." "Yes, yes! I'll go after him!" He started alertly toward the door. She sprang before him, "No! What good would that do? You know he's set on saving Vievie. He'll not listen to you." "Gad! That's true. He's hard enough to handle, at best.
"Not done it?" repeated Ashton vaguely. "No. According to mamma's letter, Earl Jimmy outgeneraled the low- browed hero. At Aden he put Vievie on a P. and O. steamer, in the charge of Lady Chetwynd. He and the hero followed in the tramp steamer to England, where he kept friend Thomas at his daddy's ducal castle until Vievie made mamma start home with her.
Blake glanced over his shoulder and stopped short at sight of the girls locked in each other's arms. After a moment's fervent embrace, Dolores thrust her cousin out at arm's-length and surveyed her from top to toe with radiant eyes. "Vievie! Vievie! I really can't believe it! To think you're home again when we never expected to see you and you've got almost all the tan off already!"
"Er I should have preferred a a rather more favorable time, Miss Dolores." "Yes, and have mamma slam him before you put in the buffer," rejoined the girl. "See here, Vievie. It's too bad, but you must have tattled something to Uncle Herbert, and he " "Tattled!" repeated Genevieve. "I have always been candid with papa, if that is what you mean, Dolores." "All right, then, Miss Candid.
I regret so much that we cannot stay with you. Come, Dolores." Dolores settled back comfortably on her chair. "Go right on, mamma. Don't wait for me. I'll stay and help Vievie entertain Lord Avondale." "Come at once." "Oh, fudge! Well, start on. I'll catch you." Mrs. Gantry stepped past Lord James. Genevieve met his eager glance, and hastened to overtake her aunt.
I'm taller than Vievie." Her mother came in upon them in time to catch Blake's broadest grin. "Stay at home, indeed! Such a delightful day as Ah!" "It is Mr. Blake, Aunt Amice," said Genevieve in a tone that compelled the stiffening matron to bow. "Well, good-bye," repeated Blake. "Please wait," said Genevieve. "If you do not wish to go to church, you must stay to Here's papa."
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