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Updated: June 16, 2025
And when you didn't, and when I heard you had written the Evershams, well, I thought I knew what I had to think.... When I met you here Friday I half expected you to cut me, upon my word!" "But I didn't!" She laughed softly. "I remembered you perfectly." "Oh, you did, did you?... You've acted as if that was about all you did remember." "I've been very, very nice to you!"
"When can I see you again?" he demanded bluntly. "Can I see you to-morrow?" "To-morrow is a very busy day," she parried. "But the evening ?" "I shall be here," she admitted. "And could I could I take you and the Evershams, of course somewhere, anywhere, you'd like to go? If there's any other concert " She shook her head. "We leave bright and early the next morning, and I know Mrs.
Like a swollen river bursting its banks, her racing mind, wild with suspicion, surged out of its simple channels and swirled in every direction.... What did he mean? What was he trying to do? Keep her in ignorance of the outside world, detain her as long as he dared while the Evershams' absence left her friendless, and inflict his dreadful love-making upon her?
"Miss Eversham would feel badly to be left out.... But, anyway, I'm not sure that I shall be with them then," she reflected. "Not with them?" The young man leaned forward, his eyes curiously intent upon her. "No, I may be with some other friends. You see, it's this way I didn't come abroad with the Evershams in the first place. I came in the fall with a school friend and her mother to see Italy.
"But tell me," he went on, studying her face with an oddly intent look, "do these friends now, the Evershams, know these others, the the " "Maynards," she supplied. "Oh, no, they have never met each other. The Maynards are friends I made at school. And Brother has never met them either," she added, enjoying his humorous mystification. "The decrees of Allah!" he murmured again.
For an agonizing moment she hesitated. Then, "I think I will," she concluded, with sudden roguery in her smile. Stammering a farewell to the Evershams, he bore her off. It would be useless to describe that waltz. It was one of the ecstatic moments which Young Joy sometimes tosses from her garlanded arms.
"No it was not of a significance," she repeated, with a ghost of a little smile. "It was from the Evershams." "Ah! Their condolences, I think?... And is it that they still make the Nile trip?" "Yes.... They went this morning." She spoke hesitantly, averse to having this eager-eyed young host perceive how truly deserted she was. "They expect me to take the express train later and join them."
"You're sure," she murmured as Burroughs left them to interview the station clerk, "you're sure they'll never know?" "I'm positive," he stolidly responded. "Just stick to your story." "The Evershams won't question they are never interested in other people," she mused, with thankfulness. "But Mr. Falconer " "Won't have a doubt," said Billy firmly. His gloom closed in thickly about him.
"We don't know that the Evershams have received a 'letter. It might be another fraudulent telegram that was sent them from Alexandria." "That is a bit too thick. You're a Holmes for suspicion!" Falconer laughed. "I believe if Miss Beecher herself walked into this dining room you would question if she were not a deceiving effigy!" "I might question that anyway." Billy's tone was dry.
Falconer was instantly concerned, but his sympathy went against the grain. Billy was too stirred for consolation. At the doctor's he refused to have Falconer enter with him. "No use in having both of us traced if there is to be any trouble about this," he said with decision. "Go ahead and telegraph the Evershams and get an answer as soon as possible."
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