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Updated: May 22, 2025
Budlong went to the window to triumph over her victim's retreat in a panic of confusion. Instead, she heard a light patter of footsteps and Johnetta Ackerley hurried into the room. "Oh, my dear, are you ill? Pardon my coming right up, but the cook takes so long and I was so worried for fear you were but you aren't, are you?" Mrs. Budlong was at bay.
Budlong and wept, declaring that she had resolved to give the murderous terrier away to a farmer, and had already sent to Chicago for a pedigreed Angora to replace the Maltese. It would arrive the day before Christmas. As if that were not enough for one day, in the afternoon Johnetta Ackerley called. She saw Mrs. Budlong at an upper window and waved to her as she came along the walk.
"It was most disloyal," said Mrs. Budlong. "And to think that after tearing me to pieces behind my back, you could come and call on me." It was a fine speech, but after she heard herself say it, Mrs. Budlong had a sinking feeling that if she herself had never called on anybody she had not criticized she would have stayed at home all her life. But Johnetta Ackerley took another line.
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