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Tongue sweet-sour, and red cabbage! Renie, get on your things and " "Honest, if it wasn't too late I would telegraph him I ain't home." "Get on your things, Renie, and go right down to Rindley's for a roast. If you telephone they don't give you weight. This afternoon I go myself for the vegetables." Excitement purred in Mrs. Shongut's voice. "Hurry, Renie!"
He had been off several times with them an a cruise, and considered that he was fast working down to a dead open-and-shut, and the really guilty parties, when he received the strange wanting at the hands of the weird, but beautiful girl who called herself Renie Pearce.
Miss Shongut's face was suddenly buried in the neat lace yoke of her mother's dimity blouse, and her arms crept up about her neck. "I've been only fooling about to-night, mamma. Don't you think I know it is just like he was sent from heaven? I've only been fooling, mamma, so that so that you shouldn't know how happy I am." The soul peeped out suddenly in Mrs. Shongut's face, hallowing it. "Renie!
I thought the system was a great one and and I couldn't lose." "Izzy roulette again! You you been losing at at roulette again?" "No, no; but they found out at at the bank, Renie. I oh, my God! Nothing won't save me!" "The bank, Izzy?" "They found out, Renie. Yesterday, when the bank was closed, he Uncle Isadore put 'em on the books. Nothing won't save me now, Renie.
"Yes, I I You shouldn't keep spoiling me with such grand flowers and candy, Mr. Hochenheimer." "If tell you that never in my life I sent flowers or candy, or wrote a letter like I wrote you yesterday, to another young lady, I guess you laugh at me not, Miss Renie?" "You shouldn't begin, Mr. Hochenheimer, by spoiling me."
In the half-light of the room, with the late sunshine pressing warm against the drawn green shades, the remote shouts of children coming to them through the quiet, and the whir of a lawn-mower off somewhere, they crouched, these two, as though they would shut their ears to the flapping of vultures' wings. "They can't do anything to you, Izzy." "What'll we do, Renie? What'll we do?"
Her suggestion was indeed startling; and, what was more; there was not only a possibility, but a probability that her suspicion was correct. A silence followed her words, but at length the detective said: "I shall go off on the yacht, Renie." "And you will never return!" "Yes, I shall return." "Suppose my suspicion is correct, and those men are leading you on?"
It would have killed me if you had sold yourself to him for me. I'd have gone to the stripes first. But I got a man's chance now, Renie, and I don't have to do that rotten thing to you and Squash. A man's chance, Renie, and and I'm going to take it." She sat down on the bed suddenly, as though the blood had flowed out of her heart, weakening her.
"I would not have gone to that man's house even had my father consented. I have a mind and will of my own; and now that I am on my guard I will take care of myself against any such attacks in future." "I don't know, Renie; I do not think you will be safe here." "The men around here will protect me."
He won't; you you know him hard as nails! Nothing won't save me. It's going to be stripes for me, Renie. Ma the old man stripes! I I can't let 'em do it. I I'll kill myself first. I can't let 'em I can't I can't let 'em!" He burrowed his head in her lap to stifle his voice, which slipped up and away from his control; and her icy hands and knees could feel his entire body trembling.
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