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For a man of business taking holidays, when a lady craves for gossip, disappointed her faith in him as cruelly as the shut-up, empty inn the broken hunter knocking at a hollow door miles off home. Mr. Abner, hatted and gloved and smiling, came forth. "Going out, the man meant, Lady Charlotte. At your service for five minutes."
There were things, all the same, it was impossible to blink and which made this measure an odd one the too evident fact for instance that she hadn't started out for the day dressed and hatted and shod, and even, for that matter, pink parasol'd, as she had been in the boat.
Cis came forth from her room now, hatted, and carrying what she was taking a few toilet articles and one or two cherished belongings of her mother's, all carefully wrapped in a shoe box. That it was pitiful, her having to go with so little, occurred neither to her nor to Johnnie.
We were already moving, parallel with the wall, and at least twelve feet away from it, by the time the figure that of a tall boy, cow-boy hatted, and picturesquely outlined in the half light stopped just ahead of us. "Like the herald Mercury," I said to myself.
Hoyt smiled, nervously, and said she must run away and tend to her dinner. And went. Ray looked after her. He strode into the kitchenette where Cora stood, hatted, at the sink. "Say, looka here, Cora. You got to quit seeing that woman, see?" "What woman?" "One calls herself Mrs. Hoyt. That woman. Mrs. Hoyt! Ha!" "Why, Ray, what in the world are you talking about! Aren't you fun-ny!"
Eleanor sprang up with her heart beating so that she could not speak; but it was only a white hatted youth in light gray flannels asking Calamity at the basement door "when MacDonald would be back."
" Mister Lanyard sed as 'ow 'e might be quite lite, but 'e'd 'urry all 'e could, ma'am, and would the lidy please wite." "Thank you so much." "'Nk-you, ma'am." Smiling, Lanyard replaced the receiver and rang for the waiter. When that one answered, the adventurer was hatted and coated and opening his door. "I'm called out," he said "can't quite say when I'll be back.
In the flying instant Verrian saw a colorless face with pinched and sunken eyes under a worn-looking forehead, and a withered mouth whose lips parted feebly. On her part, Miss Macroyd had doubtless already noted that the girl was, with no show of expensiveness, authoritatively well gowned and personally hatted. She stared at her, and said, "What a very hunted and escaping effect."
She sat, hatted, veiled and gloved, staring fixedly ahead of her for some moments. Then she said aloud, in a firm but quiet voice: "Well, this positively ENDS it!" A delicate film of dust obscured the shining surface of the writing table. Mrs. Salisbury's mouth curved into a cold smile when she saw it; and again she spoke aloud. "Thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, indeed!" she said. "Ha!"
And here was this horribly self-possessed little devil he called her a little devil quite plainly in his mind accusing that flower of gentleness and beauty of a vulgar crime. "My God!" said he, under his breath. And at that instant Anne, flushed and most sweet, hatted and gloved, opened the door and walked in. She bowed to Alston Choate, though she did not take his outstretched hand.
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