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Preston himself would, he said, represent himself as being an Eton master, and Doris Lorrimer was to be closely cross-questioned as to who had authorized her to meet the boy and take him to Hampstead and
"She and Polly have grown old together, and they need some younger person to take care of them both," said Uncle Leverett. "She ought to take her comfort; she has money enough." "It is so difficult to find anyone to suit," and Aunt Elizabeth sighed. "I shall crawl out in the spring," declared Mrs. Perkins; but her tone was rather despondent. Doris wondered when the spring would come.
Stopping at the public telephone in the hall she decided not to use the one in Miss Merton's sitting-room until the owner was at home again she called up Elinor and gave her a brief report. "I'm having a perfectly lovely time," she told her. "And as Doris isn't coming back till next week, I am going to bring someone who has been very nice to me home to supper on Sunday, in her place.
There Pontius relieved her of the duty, and the respect he paid to the stranger made her sure that in fact she was none other than the Empress in person. "An odious woman!" said Sabina, as she went on pointing to Doris, whom her words could not escape.
"Alden P. Ricks "Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York "Joey arrived bung up and bilge free. Had loaded and hauled into stream, waiting for him. Came out in launch, climbed Jacob's ladder and stood on rail, sizing up ship. Saw Doris and almost fell face down on deck. He says Doris is a dream, she says Joey is a dear. Take it from me, boss, it is all over but the wedding bells.
"I'll ask Doris about it in a roundabout way, so she'll say just what she thinks," she planned, and she was so eager to seek out Doris that she hurried through her dinner before Rosamond had begun on her first mouthful, excusing herself by saying that she had some business on hand that would not wait.
Neither did Doris, when she recovered from the excitement engendered by the definite assurance that her eyes were ever so slightly resuming their normal function. She did believe that her sight was being restored naturally, as torn flesh heals or a broken bone knits, and she was doubtful if any eye specialist could help that process.
"No, dear. We must shield him all we can." Yes, they would try always. There was a little rift in the cloud of pain. The next evening Captain Hawthorne came over to bid them a formal good-by. Helen Chapman and her lover and Eudora were there, so it was an unembarrassing affair with many good wishes on both sides. Doris thought she would like to run away and hide.
Maybe I cannot believe hard enough or maybe Mary didn't speak truth. She doesn't always, Aunt Dorrie." Doris gasped and drew the child closer. It was like being dragged, by the little hand, to an unsuspected danger that she, not the child, understood. Gradually the inner side of the years was turned out by Doris's careful questions and Joan's quiet simplicity.
On and on they went; and after a time things began to have a very foreign look, and this startled Doris considerably. "We can't have crossed the ocean," she thought. But when she asked her nearest neighbor where they were and whether they had crossed the Atlantic, he smiled and said, "Ja, gewiss; wir sind in Deutschland.
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