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"I'm glad to hear that," sighed Johnny, as he turned to rejoin Mazie. Johnny did not return to his room that night. After reporting to the police station and letting them know where he might be found if needed, he secured a room in one of Chicago's finest hotels, and pulling down the blinds turned in to sleep until noon.
The two, Keith and Dorothy, had had a wonderful hour over a book that Dorothy had brought to read. They had been sitting on the porch, and Dorothy had risen to go when there came a light tread on the front walk and Mazie Sanborn tripped up the porch steps. "Well, Dorothy Parkman, is this where you were?" she cried gayly. "I was hunting all over the house for you half an hour ago."
Keith won't see Dorothy, nor Mazie, nor none of 'em. He thinks they come jest to spy out how he looks an' acts; an' he got it into his head that if you was Dorothy's father, he wouldn't see you. He hates to be pitied an' stared at." "Oh, I see." A sympathetic understanding came into the doctor's eyes. The anger was all gone now. "Very well. As it happens I'm really Dr. Stewart.
They were Mazie Sanborn and her friend Dorothy Parkman. Mazie was the daughter of the town's richest manufacturer, and Dorothy was her cousin from Chicago, who made such long visits to her Eastern relatives that it seemed sometimes almost as if she were as much of a Hinsdale girl as was Mazie herself. To-day Mazie's blue eyes and Dorothy's brown ones were full of mischief.
Later on that summer, when they had a chance to make a day's tour in an automobile, Max, Steve, Bandy-legs, and Toby invited both Mazie Dunkirk and Bessie French to accompany them; and in fine style they visited along the route of their homeward journey after leaving the camp under the forest trees.
"Well, I like that!" bridled Mazie, with playful indignation; "and when Dorothy and I have taken all this trouble to come and " "Is Dorothy here, too?" interrupted the boy sharply. "Yes, Keith I am here." Dorothy was almost crying, and her voice sounded harsh and unnatural. "And we brought you these," interposed Mazie brightly, crossing the room to his side and holding out the flowers.
He threw himself on the couch, and the night winds, coming in through the open window, stirred the curtains of the canopy bed with the light touch of a ghostly hand. Then dreams came, and through them ran the thread of his hope of seeing Mazie Wetherell in the morning. But even with such preparation, her beauty seemed to come upon him unawares when he saw her at breakfast.
When she dared look up, she saw the man sprawled on the floor, and the girl crouching beside him, like a wild beast beside her kill. Seeming to feel Mazie's eyes upon her, Cio-Cio-San turned and smiled strangely, as she said: "He is dead!" The Russian had told the truth when he said the friends of Mazie and Cio-Cio-San were on the bridge.
But, it was when he was 'fraid he was goin' to be blind; an' he see you an' Mazie Sanborn at the foot of Harrington Hill, one day. It was just after the old man had got blind, an' Keith had been up to see him. It seems that Keith was worryin' then for fear HE was goin' to be blind." "He WAS?" "Yes things blurred, an' all that.
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