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Updated: May 9, 2025
Somebody's got to go there, of course, to pack up and make arrangements for our leavin'. She Frances, I mean would go, too, if we asked her, I suppose likely; she'd do anything you asked, now. But it would be awful hard for her. She'd meet all the people she used to know there and they wouldn't understand and 'twould be hard to explain. The Baylisses know the real truth, but the rest of 'em don't.
They expect almost anything of Americans, or some of them do, but the marriage of an uncle and niece ought to be a surprise, I should think." Hephzy laughed. "The Baylisses will explain," she said. "I told the old doctor and his wife all about it. They were very much pleased, that was plain enough. They knew she wasn't your niece and they'll tell the other folks. That'll be all right, Hosy.
"But the witnesses against the elder Bayliss skipped, and the district attorney never brought the case to trial. Case was quashed a year later, and so now the Baylisses belong to the Distinguished Order of Unconvicted Boodlers. That trolley stock jumped to six times its par value right after the case against Bayliss was dropped, you know." "And, from what I've heard Mr.
"Didn't know you had a niece, Knowles. She wasn't with you on the ship, now was she." "Miss Morley had been living in England here and on the Continent," I answered. I could have kicked Bayliss for his officious explanation of kinship. Now I should have that ridiculous "uncle" business to contend with, in our acquaintance with Heathcroft as with the Baylisses and the rest.
We made other acquaintances Mrs. Griggson, the widow in "reduced circumstances," whose husband had been killed in the Boer war, and who occupied the little cottage next to the draper's shop; Mr. and Mrs. Samson, of Burgleston Bogs, friends of the Baylisses, and others. They were pleasant, kindly, unaffected people and we enjoyed their society. Each day Frances gained in health and strength.
Our guest or my "niece" or our ward it was hard to classify her changed the subject. "Have you met any of the people about here?" she asked. Hephzy burst into enthusiastic praise of the Baylisses and the curates and the Coles. "They're all just as nice as they can be," she declared. "I never met nicer folks, at home or anywhere." Frances nodded. "All English people are nice," she said.
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