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Updated: May 29, 2025
We described the consequent visit of Miss Willoughby to the office of the Disentanglers, and how she reminded Merton that he had asked her once 'if she had a spark of the devil in her. She had that morning received, in fact, a letter, crawling but explicit, from the unworthy Jephson, her lover.
'Yes, I am to be walking through Albany Grove at a quarter to four on Friday. 'Be punctual. 'You may rely on me, said Miss Frere. Logan next day went to Trevor's rooms in the Albany; he was the capitalist who had insisted on helping to finance the Disentanglers. To Trevor he explained the situation, unfolded his plan, and asked leave to borrow his private hansom. 'Delighted, said Trevor.
Having deposited them, he paid a call at the dwelling of a fair member of the Disentanglers, Miss Frere, the lady instructress in the culinary art, at the City and Suburban College of Cookery, whereof, as we have heard, Mr. Fulton, the eminent drysalter, was a patron and visitor. Logan unfolded the case and his plan of campaign to Miss Frere, who listened with intelligent sympathy.
'The Highlanders beat the world for fantastic visions, and the Islanders beat the Highlanders. But, look here, am I too inquisitive? The night when we first thought of the Disentanglers you said there was somebody. But I understood that she and you were of one mind, and that only parents and poverty were in the way.
We are not to have Johnnies disguised as hansom cabbies driving about, and picking up men and women that look the right sort, in the streets, and compelling them to come in? 'Oh no, that expense we can cut. It would not do with the women, obviously: heavens, what queer fishes that net would catch! The flag of the Disentanglers shall never be stained by anything.
The prophylactic precautions would certainly be increased, morally speaking, if the Disentanglers were married. But while he pigeon-holed this idea for future reference, at the moment he could not see his way to accepting Mrs. Brown-Smith's spirited idea.
It is not to be supposed that all the enterprises of the Company of Disentanglers were fortunate. Nobody can command success, though, on the other hand, a number of persons, civil and military, are able to keep her at a distance with surprising uniformity. There was one class of business which Merton soon learned to renounce in despair, just as some sorts of maladies defy our medical science.
Merton and Logan gave a farewell dinner in autumn to the Disentanglers to such of them as were still unmarried. In her napkin each lady of the Society found a cheque on Coutts for 25,000l. signed with the magic name Ronald Macrae. The millionaire had insisted on being allowed to perform this act of munificence, the salvage for the recovered millions, he said.
'He confounded himself in excuses; it was horribly awkward. 'Horribly! said Merton. 'He rated the man for visiting his guests' rooms without his knowledge. I dare say the parson has turned over all your things. Merton blenched. He had some of the correspondence of the Disentanglers with him, rather private matter, naturally. 'He had not the key of my despatch box, said Merton.
Now our Disentanglers are not going to be plain, or dull, or old, or stale, or commonplace we'll take care of that. My dear fellow, don't you know how dismal the parti selected for a man or girl invariably is? Now we provide a different and superior article, a fresh article too, not a familiar bore or a neighbour. 'Well, there is a good deal in that, as you say, Logan admitted.
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