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However, Millie Splay's awake to the danger now." "Danger!" Hillyard sharply exclaimed. "Quite right. It's too strong a word. I take it back," Hardiman agreed at once. But he was not in the habit of using words wildly. He had said exactly what he meant to say, and having aroused the attention which he meant to arouse, he calmly withdrew the word.
"And who is the ingenious man who discovered this way of keeping the peace at Senga?" Hillyard suddenly hesitated. "A great friend of mine," he answered with his eyes on Millie Splay's face. "He was with me at Oxford. A Captain Luttrell." But it was clear almost at once that the name had no associations in Lady Splay's mind.
The man who had been so far the foremost in his thoughts during the last weeks that he never thought that he could have failed to recognise him. Mario Escobar! And with Joan Whitworth. Millicent Splay's letter flashed back into his memory. The distress which he had seemed to hear loud behind the written words was this its meaning and explanation? Joan Whitworth and Mario Escobar!
"She can't ruin her complexion," thought Millicent Splay. "That's one thing. But if she could, she would. Oh, I would love to smack her!" Joan, quite unaware of Millie Splay's tingling fingers and indignant eyes, sat reading "Ferishtah's Fancies." Other girls might set their caps at the soldiers. Joan had got to be different. She had even dallied with the pacifists.
Do come if you can and bring your friend with you, if he is in London and has nothing better to do. We have all been reading about him in the papers, and Chichester is very proud of belonging to the same mess, and says what a wonderful thing it must be to be able to get into the papers like that, without trying to." Hillyard could see the smile upon Lady Splay's face as she wrote that sentence.
All his pride and joy would be engrossed by the great fact that his battalion had increased its good name. There was a closing sentence in Millie Splay's letter which brought another smile to his lips. "Linda Spavinsky is, alas, going as strong as ever.
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