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"Neither can I," said the colonel thoughtfully. "You're a pretty clever girl, Lollie, and I'm going to make it worth your while to get close to that fellow. He's the one man in Scotland Yard that we want to put out of business. Not that we've anything to be afraid of," he added vaguely, "but he's just interfering with " He paused for a word. "With business," said the girl.
Clayton Rawlins came too, and Lollie Henry, and then they came in such numbers that Dotty couldn't catch all the names nor remember those she did catch. The girls had laid off their hats and wraps in the Fayre house, and the boys in the Rose house, as every means was used to have the party equally divided. At first they played games. The Fayres had a tennis court, and the Roses a croquet ground.
Before the dawn came, he was at Twickenham, examining a big motor-launch that lay in a boat-house. It was the launch which should have carried Lollie Marsh and Selby on their river and sea journey. It was provisioned and ready for the trip.
"You've made your pile, and you find England's getting a bit too hot for you, don't you?" "I do indeed," said the man fervently. "You know, colonel, I was thinking that a trip to America wouldn't be a bad idea." "There are plenty of places to go to without going to America," said the colonel. "I tell you that I mean Lollie no harm." "Lollie?" Selby was surprised, and showed it. "She hasn't "
The colonel had something on his lips to say, but swallowed it. "We'll meet here to-night at eleven. I told Lollie to come. Now, Crewe," he said in a more gentle tone, "you're in this up to the neck, and you've got to go through with it. After all, your life and liberty are at stake as much as ours. If Lollie's played us false, we've got to be "
McKnight went under protest. "I haven't much time," he said, looking at his watch. "I'm to meet Mrs. West and Alison at one. I want you to know them, Lollie. You would like the mother." "Why not the daughter?" I inquired. I touched the little gold bag under the pillow. "Well," he said judicially, "you've always declared against the immaturity and romantic nonsense of very young women "
"Jack o' Judgment must be working with a pal," the colonel went on triumphantly, "and I suggest that that pal is Lollie Marsh." "That's a lie!" The colonel looked up quickly. "Who said that?" he demanded harshly. Crewe shook his head. "It was not me," he said. "Was it you, Selby?" "Me?" said the astonished Selby. "No, I thought it was you who said it. It came from your end of the table, colonel."
Her voice broke. "Why, Lollie," he said very gently. "You don't mean ?" "I'm just as shameless as I've ever been" she said, "but I'm not proposing to marry you, I'm not asking for anything save your friendship and your comradeship. I think people can love one another without marrying and all that sort of thing; but do you will you " "Will I go?" he asked. She nodded.
Bella came up after I had gone to bed, and turned on the light to brush her hair. "If I don't leave this mausoleum soon, I'll be carried out," she declared. "You in bed, Lollie Mercer and Dal flirting, Anne hysterical, and Jim making his will in the den! You will have to take Aunt Selina tonight, Kit; I'm all in." "If you'll put her to bed, I'll keep her there," I conceded, after some parley.
Poor girl!" he said, with mock concern, "she must be bored with sitting there so long. Let us take a stroll." If he expected Lollie to follow, he was to be disappointed She stayed on watching the disappearing figures, without attempting to rise, and waiting until they were out of sight, she walked out on to the Embankment and hailed a passing taxi.
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