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If they arrested Dale and accused him it would be her own fault. A fine way for her to repay dear, dear Mother Lynch. What could she do? Beryl met her with the warning that Mr.
"'I should much prefer to have it so, said he, raising up a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet? "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire, said I. "'Precisely. He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery which he had named.
She said how stimulating it was for a few of the real people who did things to come together in this way after the day's turmoil to get away from it all! Beryl Mae said she had often wanted to get away from it all, but her aunt was narrow-minded.
Turning these thoughts over and over, Beryl suddenly faced the disturbing conviction that she was moulding her own young life on very opposite lines.
Really her underclothes! A pair of blue cotton knickers and a linen bodice that reminded one somehow of a pillow-case... "And you don't wear stays, do you?" She touched Beryl's waist, and Beryl sprang away with a small affected cry. Then "Never!" she said firmly. "Lucky little creature," sighed Mrs. Kember, unfastening her own.
Beryl shut her eyes and groaned; but the scene merely shifted to a dell under the shadow of Carrara hills, where olives set "Ricordo" among their silver leaves; and lemons painted "Ricordo" in their pale gold; and scarlet pomegranates and nodding violets, burning anemones and tender green of trailing maiden-hair ferns all blazoned "Ricordo."
If he took Daisy Estelle Maybury to the chicken pie supper to get a new carpet for the Presbyterian parsonage, he'd up and take Beryl Mae and her aunt, or Gussie Himebaugh, or Luella Stultz, to the lawn feet at Judge Ballard's for new uniforms for the band boys.
So full had been each moment of her first day at Gray Manor that it was not until she sat curled in the big divan before the library fire, a book of colored plates of Italian gardens across her lap that she thought of her determination to know more of the girl who had called herself Beryl. Harkness stood at the long table putting it in order.
"Your husband's had an accident he's alive, but you'd better come." Mrs. Lynch stood very still in the centre of the room her hand clutching her throat as though to stifle the scream that tore it. "My Dan hurt!" She trembled but stood very straight. "Quick, Dale, we must go to him. My Dan. No, no, you stay with Beryl.
King's Highway is open trail. Beryl and I go through there often in the Yellow Peril, since dad gave me outright the Bay State Ranch and all pertaining thereto except, of course, Perry Potter; he stays on of his own accord. Frosty is father King's foreman, and Aunt Lodema went back East and stayed there.
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