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We'd ought to be careful how we judge folks, hadn't we, Hosy." "Yes," said I, absently. "So you haven't posted the letter to the Heptons. Why not?" "Well well, to tell you the truth, Hosy, I was kind of hopin' you might change your mind and decide to go, after all. I wish you would; 'twould do you good. And," wistfully, "Switzerland must be lovely. But there!
I have telegraphed the Heptons that we will join them in Paris on the evening of the twenty-first. After that Well, we'll see." Hephzy's delight was as great as her surprise. She said I was a dear, unselfish boy. Considering what I intended doing I felt decidedly mean; but I did not tell her what that intention was.
Before we retired that night I told Hephzy what I had deferred telling until then, namely, that I did not intend leaving for Switzerland with her and with the Heptons the following day. I did not tell her my real reason for staying; I had invented a reason and told her that instead. "I want to be alone here in Paris for a few days," I said.
You needn't say you won't, for I know you too well. Mercy sakes! do you suppose I've taken care of you all these years and DON'T know?" The next forenoon I said good-by to her and the Heptons at the railway station. Hephzy's last words to me were these: "Remember," she said, "if you do get caught in the rain, there's dry things in the lower tray of your trunk.
We whizzed through the French country, catching glimpses of little towns, with red-roofed cottages clustered about the inevitable church and chateau, until night came and looking out of the window was no longer profitable. At nine, or thereabouts, we alighted from the train at Paris. In the cab, on the way to the hotel where we were to meet the Heptons, Hephzy talked incessantly.
The Heptons had been summer neighbors of ours on the Cape for several seasons. They were friends of Jim Campbell's and had first come to Bayport on his recommendation. I liked them very well, and, oddly enough, for I was not popular with the summer colony, they had seemed to like me. "It was very kind of them to think of us," I said.
I believed I understood the reason for Campbell's giving our address to the Heptons; also the reason for the invitation. Jim was very anxious to have me leave Mayberry; he believed travel and change of scene were what I needed. Doubtless he had put the Heptons up to asking us to join them on their trip. It was merely an addition to his precious prescription. "Why don't we go?" urged Hephzy.
"I think I may find some material here which will help me with my novel. You and the Heptons must go, just as you have planned, and I will join you at Lucerne or Interlaken." Hephzy stared at me. "I sha'n't stir one step without you," she declared. "If I'd known you had such an idea as that in your head I " "You wouldn't have come," I interrupted. "I know that; that's why I didn't tell you.
And I asked a question. "Hephzy," I asked, "when do the Heptons leave Paris for their trip through Switzerland?" Hephzy considered. "Let me see," she said. "Today is the eighteenth, isn't it. They start on the twenty-second; that's four days from now." "Of course you have written them that we cannot accept their invitation to go along?" She hesitated. "Why, no," she admitted, "I haven't.
Our lease isn't up until October and we can leave the servants here and give them our address to have mail forwarded. If if she that is, if a letter or or anything SHOULD come we could hurry right back. The Heptons are real nice folks; you always liked 'em, Hosy. And you always wanted to see Switzerland; you used to say so. Why don't we say yes and go along?" I did not answer.
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