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For the ride home Polly sat between Miss Crilly and David in Dr. Dudley's car. "Isn't that a great bluff of Miss Sniffen's?" Miss Crilly's tone was too confidential even for Polly's quick ears. The repeated question carried as far as David Polly knew from his sudden change of expression. But Miss Crilly talked on. "Seemed as if I must tell! I never was so stirred up in my life!
Polly was too excited to heed Miss Sterling's warning pinch. "I never saw anything out of the way in her," attested Miss Mullaly. "She has always appeared to me like a very cultured woman." "She is a perfect lady," asserted Mrs. Winslow Teed. "Yes, she is!" agreed Miss Castlevaine. "I guess Miss Sniffen's the one that's losing her mind huh!" "Is she as bad as ever?" queried Mrs. Tenney anxiously.
"I can't tell; I've lost the map of Miss Sniffen's mind." "Did you ever have it?" laughed Polly. "I think once I had a facsimile of it." Polly chuckled. Then she shook her head doubtfully. "I wish Miss Sniffen wasn't Miss Sniffen," she mused vaguely. Suddenly she brightened. "Why can't we tell Mr. Randolph about it and ask him to ask Miss Sniffen?" She waited eagerly for the answer.
Such airs! You'd think she held a mortgage on the world!" A soft tap on the door was followed by the entrance of Miss Castlevaine. "Have you heard?" she whispered tragically. "No." Miss Sterling grew grave. Polly bent forward in her eagerness. "You see, I went down to get a pitcher of hot water, and I heard Miss Sniffen's voice in the dining-room and so went in that way. Mrs.
"Yes, I'm glad as can be! I felt she would come out all right, but it is better to know it." "She owes her life to you. I never should have dared to brave Miss Sniffen's anger, as you did." "I guess I shouldn't have dared, if I hadn't known there was somebody ready to stand by me in case of need." "That must have helped.
Wasn't it queer it happened to be his land?" Miss Sniffen's thin lips drew themselves into a sarcastic line. "'Happened! There seems to have been a number of happenings." "I know it," Polly agreed demurely, looking at her watch to make sure of the time. "We came in about five minutes ago, Miss Sniffen. It was twenty minutes of six just before we got here."
Albright, Miss Crilly, Miss Sterling, and Polly. "Come inside! I want to talk with you," she told them. "Say," she began, in lowered voice, "do you s'pose there's any chance in Miss Sniffen's taking me back?" Astonishment was plain on the faces before her. "Oh, I s'pose you think that's queer!" She laughed nervously. "But I just can't live here any longer! I was the biggest fool to marry that man!
"What time did you leave the picnic grounds?" "I think it was four o'clock." "Did you come directly back?" Miss Sniffen's hard eyes fastened on Polly's face. "Oh, no! We had a beautiful ride! We went way out on the Flaxton road, along by the river. Don't you think Mr. Randolph is a very lovable man?"
"We thought you would wonder what had become of us," smiled Leonora. "We did," agreed Mrs. Albright, "and somebody else will be wondering that same thing, if we don't march home about as fast as we can!" Polly's cool and charming sweetness was all that saved the party from Miss Sniffen's very apparent displeasure, the tardy ones agreed.
In Miss Sniffen's room and Mrs. Nobbs's room and Bridget's room! They ain't anywhere at all!" Of course, that roused the house, and everybody was running round half-dressed, and they hunted everywhere, and they couldn't find a trace of the three. Their trunks had disappeared and every vestige of their belongings!
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