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Philip gave Patty one long look deep into her eyes, and then, with an entire change of manner, he said lightly, "Now, my lady fair, if you are rested, suppose we walk back to the house?" "I am rested," and Patty jumped up, "so you won't have to do what I feared, take me home in a wheelbarrow." Van Reypen looked at her quizzically.
"Then you refuse?" and Farnsworth looked Patty straight in the eyes. "Of course I refuse," and she gave her little head a disdainful toss. "This dance belongs to Mr. Van Reypen." Philip was just passing, and as Patty laid her hand on his arm, he stopped. "Certainly it does," he said, but it was easy to be seen that the dance was as much a surprise to him as it was a pleasure.
"Oh, dear," she cried, as, at the fourth dance, five or six eager young men were bowing before her; "what shall I do? I'd have to be a centipede to dance with you all! And I can't divide one dance into six parts. And I can't CHOOSE,-that would be TOO embarrassing! Let's draw lots. Lend me a coin, somebody." "Here you are," said Van Reypen, handing her a bright quarter.
I'd rather have the story from you." "And I'll tell it to you, all. But, oh, Bill, I'm so glad Fleurette is all right!" "She is so!" and Patty came dancing on, with the smilingest child in the world. Van Reypen followed, and then the whole crowd drew together anxious to know what the commotion was all about.
In the dim half-light he descried Patty on the divan and Cameron kneeling before her, and, as Mr. Van Reypen was blessed with a quick temper, he felt a sudden desire to choke the talented Mr. Cameron. "Patty!" Philip exclaimed, angrily. "Yes, Philip," said Patty, in a voice of sweet humility. "Come with me," was the stern command.
"Then that's where I go," stated Van Reypen, rising from the table. "I daresay you're right, Chick. May I take the little roadster, Bill, and whiz over there and bring her back?" "Go ahead, boy, and good luck to you." But Farnsworth was not at all sanguine as to the bringing back of Azalea.
But, of course, you know what a doctor's orders are, and how they must be obeyed." "Of course I know; now don't you think for a moment of any petty little disappointments we girls may have. Why, they're nothing compared to your trouble and Mr. Perry's, and the boys'." Patty telephoned Philip Van Reypen, and that young man was simply aghast. "I can't believe it!" he exclaimed.
Patty spoke in her sweetest tones, and hung up the receiver suddenly, leaving Mr. Van Reypen in a state of mind bordering on frenzy. Then Patty called up Nan, and explained the whole situation to her. "How awful!" said Nan, in deepest sympathy, "both for Mrs. Perry and for you." "Yes, it is; but of course there's nothing to do but make the best of it. Ken is splendid.
"Well, I'd rather count too much than not at all. Oh, Azalea, you do understand me, don't you? Let me count, dear, let me count for everything in your life " Azalea Thorpe couldn't believe her ears. What Van Reypen was saying seemed as if it could have but one meaning, yet that was impossible!
Tell me, Azalea, may I take you to myself? Will you be my very own?" "I can't say yes, Phil," she replied, softly, the tears gathering in her brown eyes. "I oh, I thought I could tell you the truth, but I can't, I can't! I I love you too much!" "You've answered me!" cried Van Reypen, his eyes shining with gladness, "if you love me, nothing else matters!
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