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Updated: July 25, 2025
You forget that I have no invitation for to-day. Tell her that Miss Garrison will be delighted to dine with her." Baker flew out of the room and downstairs with the message, the purport of which did not sift through her puzzled head until Lady Saxondale smiled and instructed her to inform Miss Garrison that she would be charmed to have her dine with her both yesterday and to-day.
"It is as I suspected," he said, tersely. "I trust I am not too late to save Miss Garrison from outrage." "One moment, please," commanded Lord Bob. "You are here through sufferance, and you must, for the time being, imagine yourself a gentleman. If you care to talk over the situation with us while we wait for Lady Saxondale and Miss Garrison, I shall be only too glad to have you do so.
Turk would die for me!" he cried, almost piteously. "He is gone, and so is she," grated Lord Bob. "What are we to infer? He has sold us out, Quentin; that's the truth of it." ''I'm damned!" almost wept Dickey Savage. "They'll have a pack of officers here before morning. I don't give a hoot for myself, but Lady Saxondale and "
"She will be in Luxemburg in the morning, if my message reaches her to-night. But we are not here for the purpose of bandying words with you, sir. This house must be searched, whether you like it or not. Captain, call in your men," cried the prince, his rage getting the better of him. "You will find that the door is barred, captain," said Saxondale, easily.
When Dorothy raised her wet eyes from the cushion in which they had been buried, Lady Saxondale was gone. Philip Quentin stood in the doorway. In an instant she was on her feet and struggling to suppress the sobs that had been wrung from her by the words of Lady Saxondale. "Dorothy," said Quentin, his voice tender and pleading, "you have heard what Lady Saxondale had to say?"
His wife was enough of a true American to love the home of her forefathers. "What my wife likes I seem to have a fondness for," said he, complacently. He once remarked that were she to fall in love with another man he would feel in duty bound to like him. Saxondale had money invested in American copper mines, and his wife had railroad stocks.
"Then, don't ask. Merely go and tell her that you know how much she cares. Go this afternoon, old man. O, by the way, Lady Jane sends her love to you, and wants to know if you will come with me to Ostend to-morrow to meet her and Lady Saxondale." "Tell Mr. Quentin I cannot see him," was Miss Garrison's response when his card was sent to her late that afternoon.
The joy left his eyes and his heart like a flash, but his lips helplessly, witlessly maintained a wide-open hospitality until long after the inspiration was dead. "She is not here, I am afraid," responded Lady Saxondale, glancing through the hurrying crowd. "Have you seen the Baroness St. Auge, Mr. Savage? Or do you know her?"
Quentin started to thank his friend and decline. Then he remembered that he wanted to get away there was absolutely nothing to keep him at home, and, besides, he liked Lord Bob and his American wife. Fashionable New York recalls the marriage of the Earl of Saxondale and Frances Thornow when the '90's were young, and everybody said it was a love match. To be sure, she was wealthy, but so was he.
We're sailing on the Lucania to-morrow, and there are going to be some doings in England this month which you mustn't miss. Dickey Savage is coming, and we want you." Quentin looked at him and laughed. Saxondale was perfectly serious. "We're going to have some people up for Goodwood, and later we shall have a house-boat for Henley. So you'd better come. It won't be bad sport."
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