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We won't tell a soul. You can say that I called at the Atwoods', if you want to; that will be true, because I did. And we'll have Mrs. Beasley for our secret yours and mine until we decide to tell. It's a bargain, Mr. Bangs. We must shake hands on it." They shook hands, and Bailey, looking in her face, thought he never saw her look so well or as young. She was pretty, he decided.
Father and I will go back home. You say it was a joke? I think it is a very serious matter." But at the end of half an hour's argument the conversation had been turned upon a different subject. The two were considering the respective merits of pale blue and pink wall paper with which the old colonial mansion of the Atwoods in Dalesburg was to be decorated after the wedding.
The next morning Bob was over at Joe's bungalow when Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell called with Mary to thank the Atwoods for the care they had given Mary when she was brought from the water, and also to express their gratitude to the boys, whose quickness and resource had saved her life.
"I don't want to seem inhospitable, but if you're going to reach the Atwoods' on time you'd better be starting." There was a general scattering and a donning of outer garments. The boys picked up the bags and the Club started for the bridge, Dr. Watkins and Miss Merriam going with them. When the Ethels had called on Mrs.
The Atwoods, however, talked enough to make up the deficiency. As we rose from the table the young lady turned to the lightkeeper. "Mr. Atwood," she said, "I presume you are going to be kind enough to take me to Wellmouth?" "Why, Miss, I I wan't cal'latin' to. Mr. Paine here, he's got all the gas he needs now and he'll take you over in his launch." "Oh! But you will go, if I ask you to?"
To one unfamiliar with crime, the incident of Marsh following the girl might have seemed to form a connection, but Morgan realized that if there was anything between the Atwoods and Marsh, the latter would hardly have been secretly following Miss Atwood.
"Besides I want Roger to come and see us, for he can be jolly good company if he has a mind to; and I believe he will come this afternoon or evening. For my sake you must all treat him well, for I want some one to talk to once in a while some one that mamma will say is a 'good, well-meaning young man. The Atwoods have all been so kind to us that we must treat him well.
While some of the information which she gave me simply ties up with and confirms your own story, there was one thing I discovered that may help us. Of course, in lining up my evidence, I separated the strong points against you from certain suspicious circumstances connected with the Atwoods. That girl impressed me so favorably that I could not definitely connect her with the trouble upstairs.
Wasn't quite O. K. of her to listen to the knocks that er Dink Pawson kept giving you." "Pink Dawson!" a world of contempt would be in Johnny's tones "Poor white trash! That's what he was. Had five hundred acres of farming land, though; and that counted. Maybe I'll have a chance to get back at him some day. The Dawsons weren't anybody. Everybody in Alabama knows the Atwoods.
"I don't believe these people ever have a cent they can afford to spend on foolishness like this," Helen explained to Dr. Watkins, "but they aren't the sort of people you can give things to openly, so we thought we'd take this opportunity," and she smiled happily and went on behind Roger's leadership. This time the visit was to the Atwoods, the old couple down by the bridge.
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