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Sherwood learned of Dexie's refusal to whistle, he was as eager to change her decision as any member of the club. For once Gussie sided with Dexie, and said all she could to influence her against it, but her motive was so apparent that her father reproved her sharply. When Mr.
Was she the "warbler," and what was the character of the performance that was rated so highly? After an exquisitely rendered interlude, Dexie's clear whistle joined the accompaniment, and seemed to hold the listeners spell-bound. At its close a moment of silence followed, but when Lancy rose from the instrument the applause began, and grew louder and more deafening, and Mr.
No answer came from Dexie's lips, but she shook her head in reply. "What is it, Dexie that has come between us there is something, is there not?" "Did you ask me here on purpose to catechise me?" recovering her voice at last. "Then I wish you 'good evening," and she turned to leave him. But Guy stepped quickly before her and seized the hand that reached for the door.
A number of expressions passed over Dexie's face as he spoke. Had she done a bold, imprudent thing in attending the sale without an escort? She had not given it a thought. Surely one might go about a matter of business without a gentleman's escort? The Fremont girls did so.
Dexie, your heart is not as hard as you would have me think, for I know whose kind hands helped Mrs. Gurney during my illness, and how you watched beside me when others were too terrified to be of service." Still no response from the white lips, for Dexie's heart was throbbing too fast to allow of speech.
"I must be on the alert and see that she is not troubled unnecessarily," for being a frequent visitor, he was aware that Gussie was not always the pleasant person she appeared to be, and he, somehow, connected her with Dexie's present mood. But in this case he was mistaken. The evening mail had brought Dexie a letter from Hugh McNeil.
Traverse was soon back by Dexie's side, watching the hands that were evoking such sweet strains, but she seemed hardly aware of his presence until he said, in a low tone: "Remembering what you told me, Miss Dexie, I was not surprised to hear that you were shortly to be married. May I know the truth from your own lips, Miss Dexie?"
"I will go with you, certainly, dear, but I cannot understand why you are so frightened, for by your own description of him he is a gentleman." A few hurried explanations of Hugh's past history in connection with herself were given, and Guy grasped the headlines of it as it poured from Dexie's lips. "As my promised wife, darling, you need fear no further annoyance from him.
"What a nuisance, when I want to see how this turns out! It is not Mr. Traverse at this hour, of course," she added, carelessly. "No; it is a stranger. He is a large, dark-complexioned man, with a heavy black moustache and beautiful black eyes a perfect gentleman, Dexie!" The dish fell from Dexie's hand with a crash to the floor.
Hugh could not understand the meaning of Dexie's flushed face, even though he stepped forward and read the inscription over Lancy's shoulder, for he had never learned just how Dexie had escaped from the vessel, but supposed that Lancy had in some way brought it about. "One good turn deserves another, and gets it this time," said Lancy, with a meaning smile.
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