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Updated: June 17, 2025
A great uneasiness clutched at the girl's heart. Why had she come on that day? But Mrs. Landis was glad to see her. "Well, Amanda," she called through the kitchen screen, "you're just the person I said I wished would come. Come right in. "Come in the room a while where it's cool," she invited as Amanda and several of the children entered the kitchen. "I'm hot through and through!
She learned, too, that the girl was ambitious to be first, even in so slight a thing as sitting at the head of a table and playing hostess to five girls, generally of under classes. "Are you on the second floor again this year, Landis?" asked a little pink-and-white, china-doll girl from the foot of the table. "Yes, Mame. Min and I have the same rooms as before. The third time is the charm.
Nevertheless, at the end of Isabel's visit, Lyman was obliged to acknowledge to himself, "All my fooling round with the other girl never phased Amanda! Kick me for a fool! I'll have to think up some other way to make her take notice of me." Martin Landis came in for the small portion those days.
"But how," pondered Donnegan, "can I be working for Lord Nick when I sign up to work under Jack Landis?" "I'll tell you how. Nick and Lebrun work together. Split profits. And Nelly Lebrun works Landis for his dust. So the stuff goes in a circle Landis to Nelly to Lebrun to Nick. That clear?" "I don't quite see it," murmured Donnegan.
He saw the men who had no girl with them brighten at the announcement of the tag dance. And when the dance began he saw the prettiest girls tagged quickly, one after the other. All except Nelly Lebrun. She swung securely around the circle in the big arms of Jack Landis. She seemed to be set apart and protected from the common touch by his size, and by his formidable, challenging eye.
Donnegan smoothed his whiskers and grinned into the night. Landis might prove better game than he had anticipated. "He worried," said the girl, and her voice was as even as ever. "He worried, and sent me to find out if anything is wrong." Then: "Nonsense! What is there to worry about? Lou, I'm half inclined to think that the colonel doesn't trust me!" She did not answer.
"You don't happen to be Tom Burns of the raiders, by any chance, do you?" he asked. Tom jumped. "Yes but how...." His voice dwindled off in amazement. "I've heard a lot about you, young man. Yes, I think that if you'll go to this address" he wrote on a slip of paper "and ask for Miss Landis, you'll find someone who'll be very glad to see you. Don't even stop to thank me you hurry along."
"But how are we to find out who does the cheating?" she asked. "If I should see some member of my class make use of a "pony," am I expected to cut her dead, while all the others are friendly with her as usual? I do not see how she would be much affected by that, for she may care very little whether I ignore her or not." At this Landis sat down but she bent forward and spoke to Min Kean.
The hand on the shoulder of Landis was a thing of fairy beauty. And her eyes had that peculiar quality of seeming to see everything, and rest on every face particularly. So that, as she whirled toward Donnegan, he winced, feeling that she had found him out among the shadows. She had a glorious partner to set her off. And Donnegan saw bitterly why Lou Macon could love him.
But, Landis, if one of us should inadvertently or through nervousness beat the clock's chime by the split part of a second, the good people of The Corner will fill that one of us promptly full of lead." He turned to the crowd. "Gentlemen, is it a good plan?"
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