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Keap was pacing the porch as the others came up, and called Speed aside; then, when they were alone, broke out, with blazing eyes: "You said you had stopped him!" "And I thought I had. I did my best." "But he's coming! He'll be here any minute!" "I suppose he learned you were here." Wally laughed. "Then you must have told him." "No, I didn't." "Mr.
She pushed him away, her color surging. "Go to your old Eleven X Ranch right away." "But I mean it," he declared, earnestly. Then, as she retreated farther: "It's no use, I sha'n't go now until " "You have known me less than a week!" "That is long enough. Roberta " Mrs. Keap spoke with honest embarrassment. "Listen! Don't you see what a situation this is? If Jean and Helen should ever discover "
"This doesn't look much like our storehouse, does it?" Jean paused in her task, and, seating herself upon the summit of a step-ladder, scrutinized with satisfaction the transformation wrought by a myriad of college flags, sofa cushions, colored shawls, and bunting. Roberta Keap dropped her hammer with an exclamation of pain. "Ouch!" she cried, "I've hurt my thumb.
In a flutter of anticipation Jean and Helen put the final touches to their task, while Mrs. Keap stepped to the door and called Speed. He came at once, followed by Larry Glass, who, upon grasping the scheme of decoration, smote his brow and balanced dizzily upon his heels. Speed was lost in admiration. "Its wonderful!" ejaculated the young athlete.
I'm training been training ever since I arrived." In his first bewilderment the latecomer might have unwittingly betrayed his friend had not Jean suddenly inquired: "Where is Roberta?" "Roberta!" Covington tripped over one of his crutches. "Roberta who?" "Why, Roberta Keap, of course! She's chaperoning us while mother is away."
My heart is touched," he declared, boldly. Mrs. Keap smiled. "I believe the latter, but are you sure you can win?" "Abso-blooming-lutely." "I didn't know you were a sprinter." Speed shrugged his shoulders. "Have you had experience?" "Oceans of it!" Mrs. Keap mused for a moment. "Tell me," said she, finally, "at what intercollegiate game did you run last?" "I didn't run last; I ran first."
Before he could say more, from the front of the house came the rattle of wheels, a loud "Whoa!" then Jean's voice, crying: "Culver! Culver!" while Mrs. Keap clutched at her bosom and moaned. Her companion bolted into the house and down the hall, shouting the name of his room-mate.
Turning to him suddenly, she said, in a low, intense voice: "I I'm in trouble, Mr. Speed, such dreadful trouble!" "Oh, I'm so sorry!" he answered her, with genuine solicitude. "You needn't have made any conditions. I would have done anything I could for you." "That's very kind, for I don't like our air of conspiracy, but" Mrs. Keap was wringing her slender hands "I just can't tell the girls.
"He must be an awful nuisance to a nice girl. Think of a fat, sandy-haired husband in a five-room flat with pink wall-paper and a colored janitor. Run along, Muldoon," to Glass, "I'll be with you in a moment." When the trainer had waddled out of hearing, Mrs. Keap inquired, eagerly: "Have you heard from Culver?" "Didn't you know about it?" Speed swallowed. Roberta shook her dark head.
Put him out of the play, and I shall be the happiest man in the world." "Agreed." "Now, in what way can I serve you?" Mrs. Keap became embarrassed, while the same shadowy trouble that had been observed of late settled upon her. "I simply hate to ask it," she said, "but I suppose I must. There seems to be no other way out of it."
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