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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Now do as you're told, Lollie," he said calmly. "Get after that young fellow and don't come back to me until you've got him." She nodded, not trusting herself to speak, and almost tiptoed from his dread presence. At the door he stopped her. "As to Maisie," he said, "why, you can leave Maisie to me."
"I don't know what she's done yet, but I think it is time she went away," said the colonel, "and so far as I can judge, it is time you went too, Selby. I don't know whether Lollie is betraying us, and maybe I'm doing her an injustice," he went on, "but if I put up to her a suggestion that she should leave the country, maybe she'd probably turn me down. You know how suspicious these women are.
"If you lose it, we'll buy you another," said the colonel drily, "and I reckon it's about time you had another one, Lollie." The girl fingered her chin thoughtfully. "It is not going to be easy," she said again. "It isn't going to be like young Spillsbury Pinto Silva could have done that job without help or Solomon White even." "You can shut up about Spillsbury," growled the colonel.
He got out of court after the proceedings had terminated, the cynosure of every policeman's eye, and drove back to his apartments. He had not heard from Crewe or Lollie that morning and he guessed that the two had left by aeroplane. So he was alone, he thought, and the very knowledge had the effect of stiffening him.
Now, 'Lollie' is the real girl, on the card-board is the picture girl, and on the blackboard is the word girl. Now, who thinks he can take the pointer and point to the kind of girl I ask for?" Several little hands went up, but "Dodd's" was not among them.
She blurted the words out, and Maisie stared at her. Somehow she had never thought of Lollie Marsh as a person who would get married, and it was amazing to see the confusion and shyness in which her confession had thrown her. "I congratulate you with all my heart," said Maisie. "Who is the fortunate man?" "I can't tell you. Yes, I will," said the girl. "I'll trust you. I'm marrying Jack Crewe."
"I never saw such a house," she declared. "A dozen housemaids couldn't put it in order. Why should every man that smokes drop ashes wherever he happens to be?" "That's the question of the ages," I replied languidly. "What was Max talking so horribly about a little while ago?" Lollie looked up aggrieved. "About nothing at all," she declared.
"Upon my word, Rich, I hadn't an idea beyond getting away from that place. If you had seen what I saw " McKnight stopped me. "Seen it! Why, you lunatic, I've been digging for you all day in the ruins! I've lunched and dined on horrors. Give me something to rinse them down, Lollie."
"Oh, you'll be watched all right," he said easily, and remembered the commissioner's warning. "In fact, you're being watched now. Do you mind?" "Now?" she asked in surprise. He nodded towards a lady who sat a dozen yards away and whose face was carefully shaded by a parasol. "Who is she?" asked the girl curiously. "A young person called Lollie Marsh," laughed Stafford.
"Does she know anything about about her father?" he asked. The colonel smiled. "Why, no unless you've told her." "I'm not on those terms," said Pinto savagely. "I'm getting tired of that girl's airs and graces, colonel, after what we've done for her!" "You'll get tireder, Pinto," said a voice from the end of the table and he turned round to meet the laughing eyes of Lollie Marsh.
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