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Updated: June 13, 2025
"I repeat it, the boys are angels, and Alice Mayton is another, while the happiest man in the white goods trade is "Your affectionate brother Early next morning I sought the society of my nephews. It was absolutely necessary that I should overflow to SOME one some one who was sympathetic and innocent and pure. I longed for my sister my mother, but to SOME one I must talk at once.
But she would laugh at ME how could she help it? and to be laughed at by Miss Mayton was a something the mere thought of which tormented me in a manner that made me fairly ashamed of myself.
I know the place well. Let me go and see if I can't join and pick up a little information about the man. He must have a night out sometimes. Let's find out what he does. How's that?" "Capital!" Quest agreed. "Get along, Laura. And you, Lenora," he added, "put on your hat. We'll take a ride towards Mayton Avenue."
The beginning of the service partially ended my uneasiness, for I had no hymn-book, the pew contained none, so Miss Mayton kindly offered me a share in her own.
"Well, I I I I I I I hunged over a good deal, ANY how," said Toddie, in self-defense. That afternoon I devoted to making a bouquet for Miss Mayton, and a most delightful occupation I found it. It was no florist's bouquet, composed of only a few kinds of flowers, wired upon sticks, and arranged according to geometric pattern.
There, erect, fresh, neat, composed, bright-eyed, fair-faced, smiling and observant, she would have been all this, even if the angel of the resurrection had just sounded his dreadful trump, sat Miss Alice Mayton, a lady who, for about a year, I had been adoring from afar. "When did YOU arrive, Mr. Burton?" she asked, "and how long have you been officiating as child's companion?
"Come, boys," said I. "Then I'll call with the carriage tomorrow at three, Miss Mayton. Good evening." "Good evening," replied the sweetest voice in the world; "I'll be ready at three." "Budge," said I, as soon as we were fairly outside the hedge-gate, "what do you like better than anything else in the world?" "Candy," said Budge, very promptly. "What next?" "Oranges." "What next?"
It is impossible to describe it. We found we owed the meeting with our beloved relatives to the following circumstance: After my brother's leave was up, and his ship's commission expired, instead of spending his time at home, he, with Sir Walter Mayton, chartered a vessel and determined between them to spend all the time his services were not required by his Queen in searching for us.
Answer the telephone, Lenora." Lenora obeyed. "It's Inspector French," she announced. "He wants to speak to you." Quest nodded, and held out his hand for the receiver. "Hullo, French," he exclaimed. "Anything fresh?" "Nothing much!" was the answer. "One of my men, though, who has been up Mayton Avenue way, brought in something I found rather interesting this morning.
In stepped Mike, with an air of the greatest secrecy, handed me a letter and the identical box in which I had sent the flowers to Miss Mayton. What COULD it mean? I hastily opened the envelope, and at the same time Toddie shrieked: "Oh, darsh my dolly's k'adle dare 'tish!" snatched and opened the box, and displayed his doll!
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