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Updated: June 22, 2025
He could hear the clink of china and silver in the distant dining-room. It was a good time to 'phone. A moment, and Gila's cool contralto answered: "Hel-lo-oo!" There was something about the way that Gila said that word that conveyed a whole lot of things, instantly putting the caller at his distance, but placing the lady on a pedestal before which it became most desirable to bow.
While otherwise slow of movement, it will turn quickly from side to side, snapping viciously. The inside of the Gila's mouth is black, and when angry it opens it wide and hisses. =Treatment for Snake-Bites=
Courtland read it and looked dreamily out of the window, trying to fancy Bonnie in her new home. Then he said aloud, with conviction, "Some time I shall go out there and see!" Just then some one knocked at his door and handed in a note from Gila. DEAR PAUL, Come over this evening, I want to see you about something very special. Hastily, GILA. Gila's note came to Courtland as a happy surprise.
He was to take up Burns's work around the settlement and in the factory section; to see some of his friend's plans through to completion. He was almost sorry he had promised. He felt utterly inadequate to the necessity! Spring came, and with it the formal announcement of Tennelly's and Gila's engagement. Courtland and Pat each read it in the papers, but said nothing of it to each other.
That was why Gila's insinuations had cut so terribly deep. "She's a peach, isn't she?" he said, handing the letter back. "How soon does the doctor think you'll be able to travel?" "Oh, I couldn't possibly go," said the girl, relapsing into sadness; "but I think it was lovely of her." "Go?
There was a distinct pause at the other end of the 'phone, while Gila's little white teeth came cruelly into her red under lip, and her pearly forehead drew the straight, black, penciled brows naughtily. Then she answered, in sweetly honeyed tones: "Why, that would be lovely! Perhaps I will. What time do we start?"
When Courtland lifted his head at the sound of the doctor's footsteps on the stairs he saw the challenge in Gila's eyes.
He says, 'Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow; and though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool, but you have to be sorry first that you sinned. He can't forgive you if you aren't sorry." "Sorry! Sorry!" Gila's laugh rang out mirthlessly and echoed in the high, white room. "Oh, I'm sorry, all right! What do you think I am? Do you think I've been happy?
"Who's Gila?" asked Tennelly, gloomily. "He won't notice her any more than a fly on the wall. You know how he is about girls." "Gila's my cousin. Gila Dare. She's a good sport, and she's a winner every time. We'll put Gila on the job. I've got a date with her to-morrow night and I'll put her wise. She'll just enjoy that kind of thing. He's met her, too, over at the Navy game. Leave it to Gila."
Her stare said as plainly as words could have done: "You lie! You do know him!" But Gila's lips said, scornfully, "Aren't you the poor girl whose kid brother got killed by an automobile in the street?" Across Bonnie's stricken face there flashed a spasm of pain and her very lips grew white. "I thought so!" sneered Gila, rushing on with her insult.
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