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"Well, yesterday she sent a telegram to Madame Ybanca saying she understood Madame Ybanca would be coming up from Washington this week and asking her to waive formality and come to the party." "You say my cousin sent such a wire?" "I read the telegram. Likewise I read Madame Ybanca's reply, filed at half after six o'clock yesterday evening, accepting the invitation."
Miss Smith lifted the leather circlet down over Madame Ybanca's head so that it rested upon her shoulders, looping across just below the base of the throat. "Take a step forward," she bade the madame, and as the latter obeyed, all the bells tinkled together with a constant merry clamour. "Behold!" said Miss Smith. "The lady of the bells is caparisoned for her part.
"Oh, I'm utterly in the dark," said Miss Ballister. "I can't see a thing." "Are you all hooded?" called Miss Smith. A chorus of assents went up. "Good! Then listen a moment: It will be Madame Ybanca's task to catch hold of some one of you with her hands fastened as they are behind her. It is your task to keep out of her way; the bells are to warn you of her approach.
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