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"Yes, why not?" said Barbara, who had set out to teach this lady manners. "The very thing," said I. Jaffery declared the idea to be nonsense. Barbara and I protested, growing warmer in our protestations as the argument continued. Nothing would give us such unimaginable pleasure as to entertain Mrs. Prescott. Liosha laid her hand on Jaffery's arm. "But why shouldn't they have me?
Barbara sighed, for Liosha remained unconvinced; but she extracted a promise from our fair barbarian never to shoot or jab a knife into anyone before consulting her as to the propriety of so doing. But for this and for one or two other trivial lapses from grace, Liosha led a pretty equable existence at the boarding-house.
After which they marched away singing patriotic hymns. When they had gone Liosha crept out of the cave wherein she had hidden, and surveyed the scene of desolation. "I tell you, I felt just mad," said Liosha at this stage of the story. I remember Barbara and Doria staring at her open-mouthed.
"Say, Jaff Chayne," cried Liosha, "do you think I can't look after myself by this time? What do you take me for?" I interposed. "Rather a lonely young woman, that's all. Jaffery, in his tactless way, by using the absurd term 'dragon, has missed the point altogether. You want a companion, if only to go about with, say to restaurants and theatres."
I got my feet on the rungs. I was all right, when looking up into the livid daylight whom do you think I saw calmly preparing to follow me? Liosha. I hadn't noticed her. She had sea-boots and a jersey and looked just like a man. I roared: "'Clear out. This is no place for you. "'I'm coming. Go along down. "She put her foot on the rung just below my face.
I replied that as we were not going to Paris, we were not pressed for time; but this little outside happening broke the situation. "Better give this fellow your luggage ticket, Liosha," said Jaffery. She looked about her bewildered and then I noticed on the ground a leather satchel which she had been carrying. I picked it up. She extracted the ticket and we all went to the custom-house.
"Guess it didn't turn me," replied Liosha contemptuously. "But what did you do?" asked Dora. "I sat down on a stone and thought how I could get even with that crowd." She bit her lip and her soft brown eyes hardened. "And that's where we came in, don't you see?" interposed Jaffery hastily. You can imagine the scene.
And if any other woman had attempted it, even our valiant Barbara, they would have told her in perhaps polite, but anyhow forcible, terms to mind her own business. In either case they would have resented to the depths of their simple souls the alien interference. But with Liosha it was different. Of course sex told. Naturally. But she was a child like themselves.
It was their affair. I was responsible to Barbara for her safe deliverance and here she was delivered. My attitude, as you can understand, was solely one of kindly curiosity. Liosha, for some moments, also said nothing.
But she, like myself, is but a raisonneur in the drama, and so, reluctantly, I must keep her in the background. Paullo majora canamus. Let us come to the horses. All this, time we had not lost sight of Liosha. As deputies for the absent trustee we received periodical reports from the admirable Mrs. Considine, and entertained both ladies for an occasional week-end.
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