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Everybody I've met here to-night has asked me, the first thing, if I'd heard of it, and if I knew how it could have happened." "And do you?" Rulledge asked. "I can give a pretty good guess," Halson said, running his merry eyes over our faces. "Anybody can give a good guess," Rulledge said. "Wanhope is doing it now." "Don't let me interrupt." Halson turned to him politely. "Not at all.
"Why " Wanhope began again; but at that moment a man who had been elected the year before, and then gone off on a long absence, put his head in between the dull-red hangings of the doorway. It was Halson, whom I did not know very well, but liked better than I knew.
Halson looked up at the silent waiter who had stolen upon us and was bowing toward him. "Look here, Halson," Minver detained him, "how is it none of the rest of us have heard all those details?" "I don't know where you've been, Minver. Everybody knows the main facts," Halson said, escaping. Wanhope observed musingly: "I suppose he's quite right about the reciprocality of the offer, as we call it.
He was just in time." Halson beamed for pleasure upon us, and even Minver said: "Yes, that's rather nice." After a moment he added: "Rulledge thinks she put it there." "You're too bad, Minver," Halson protested. "The charm of the whole thing was her perfect innocence. She isn't capable of the slightest finesse. I've known her from a child, and I know what I say."
He was just in time." Halson beamed for pleasure upon us, and even Minver said, "Yes, that's rather nice." After a moment he added, "Rulledge thinks she put it there." "You're too bad, Minver," Halson protested. "The charm of the whole thing was her perfect innocence. She isn't capable of the slightest finesse. I've known her from a child, and I know what I say."
"I have heard," Minver went on, "that Braybridge insisted on paddling the canoe back to the other shore for her, and that it was on the way that he offered himself." We others stared at Minver in astonishment. Halson glanced covertly toward him with his gay eyes. "Then that wasn't true?" "How did you hear it?" Halson asked. "Oh, never mind. Is it true?"
Halson looked up at the silent waiter, who had stolen upon us and was bowing towards him. "Look here, Halson," Minver detained him, "how is it none of the rest of us have heard all those details?" "I don't know where you've been, Minver. Everybody knows the main facts," Halson said, escaping.
"He did leave you at an anxious point, didn't he?" Halson smiled to the rest of us at Rulledge's expense, and then said: "Well, I think I can help you out a little. Any of you know the lady?" "By sight, Minver does," Rulledge answered for us. "Wants to paint her." "Of course," Halson said, with intelligence. "But I doubt if he'd find her as paintable as she looks, at first.
He lighted the cigar which Halson gave him, and, blowing the bitten-off tip towards the fire, began: "It was about that time when we first had a ten-o'clock night train from Boston to New York. Train used to start at nine, and lag along round by Springfield, and get into the old Twenty-sixth Street Station here at six in the morning, where they let you sleep as long as you liked.
I'd rather hear your guess, if you know Braybridge better than I," Wanhope said. "Well," Halson compromised, "perhaps I've known him longer." He asked, with an effect of coming to business: "Where were you?" "Tell him, Rulledge," Minver ordered, and Rulledge apparently asked nothing better. He told him, in detail, all we knew from any source, down to the moment of Wanhope's arrested conjecture.
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