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Updated: July 11, 2025
I am very glad to see you, Miss Lavillotte. You wish to go over the works, you say?" "Yes, if perfectly convenient. And I want, if possible, to go inside one or two of the houses, if I may. Could it be managed, Mr. Dalton?" "Assuredly. Just let me announce you, and they'll be honored " "But wait a minute!" Joyce was gathering her wits again.
Of course they'll do all they can Mr. Dalton and Joyce but you know him so much better he could tell you things he wouldn't them. Then, he must get awfully lonely for his own friends. He suffers terribly over it all." "But but you know what he's in jail for?" "Of course. But nobody believes he is guilty. Miss Lavillotte says, and so does every one, that it was just an accident."
I am inclined to believe it's that kind of woman who is responsible for the fact that the world does grow better as the centuries pass. And those who know Joyce Lavillotte would scarcely care to change her." "No, no; nor I! It was of herself I was thinking. She's got to suffer so. One hates to see a person take a cloud for something tangible and keep falling off, to be bruised and beaten.
Pray come in, Mr. Dalton, and Dodo dear, run home with Wobin a little while now. We'll finish our play later." Before Dodo had time to raise a protest, Mr. Dalton broke in, pleadingly, "Mightn't we sit here, Miss Lavillotte? I see chairs under the big tree, and it's so charming out there."
Presently she who has been referred to as Dodo's auntie, Miss Camille Bonnivel, entered and, after one swift look at the guest, who stood smilingly awaiting the outbreak of her astonishment, threw up both hands and flew across the room. "Joyce!" she cried, "Joyce Lavillotte! So the proud heiress of a hundred acres mostly marsh-land, but no matter! has condescended to our low estate.
"I see you can be patient, Miss Lavillotte. Well, as this Lozcoski set fire to your Works and was imprisoned on that indictment, he has been rearrested to serve out his sentence. He escaped from prison one night when a fire in the dormitories had demoralized the discipline. He " "It's tomin'! It's tomin'! Dere's de lemmade and tookies, Doyce. See, see?"
Dalton thought it time to introduce his business, and began: "I came, as always, on a matter which concerns your affairs, Miss Lavillotte. I wanted to say " "Isn't my Doyce doin' to hab 'fweshments foh her comp'nay," broke in an insinuating little voice, in sweetest accents. "I comed back to tell you 'twould be perlite.
I'll lay the babby down some'ers and go right up; he's sound fur an hour or two, I hope. You're coming, Rache?" "Yes, in a minute," for Joyce had stepped towards her with outstretched hand, partly barring her way. "My name is Lavillotte," she said, "and I have seen you several times.
But granting all that, and allowing even half off, if you say so, it will still exceed what this plan is to cost me. And my little fun is not for one lone evening, but for a whole year, in which nearly five hundred people will share and be benefited not simply amused or bored." "You are good at arguing, Miss Lavillotte, and your money is your own.
If he but dared to comfort her, to assure her that here was a friend who would stand between her and every wrong in future! After a little he dared trust himself to answer. "Miss Lavillotte, I think life is always harder than it looks from the outside yet easier, too. At the worst something comes to help out.
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