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Why, now the exploiters are even making drug fiends of mere children!" Mrs. Sutphen spread out a crumpled sheet of note paper before us on which was written something in a trembling scrawl. "For instance, here's a letter I received only yesterday." Kennedy glanced over it carefully.
Dr. Coleman came in just as the young surgeon was bringing her around. He oh, here he is now." The famous doctor was just coming downstairs. He saw us, but, I suppose, inasmuch as we did not belong to the Sutphen and Coleman set, ignored us. "Mrs. Sutphen will be all right now," he said reassuringly as he drew on his gloves. "The nurse has arrived, and I have given her instructions what to do.
His collar, heavy with gold embroidery, seemed held in place by the Star of the Lion. At his right hand sat Trusia, resplendent and warmly human, while flanking him on the left was the grizzled Sutphen. Carter's place as an aide was far down the side of the table.
What struck me was that I saw her go in looking like a wreck and come out a beautiful creature, with bright eyes, flushed cheeks, almost youthful again. A most remarkable girl she is, too," mused Mrs. Sutphen, "who always wears a white gown, white hat, white shoes and white stockings. It must be a mania with her." Mrs.
"Wanted change, eh?" Mrs. Sutphen said dryly. Diana did not know what to add to her words. "Change and salt air" the old lady went on. "Not salt air particularly," Diana answered, feeling that she must answer. "I did not think of salt air. Though no change could have been so good for me." "Has it been good for you?" "I have enjoyed it more than I can tell," Diana said, looking up again.
He sat erect, thinking that if there was anything repulsive to him in a woman, it was physical indolence, and a strength of any sort greater than his own. Old Sutphen presently asked him if he too wouldn't give them a song. Now, Neckart never sang except when alone, as his voice was a very remarkable baritone, and he had no mind to make a reputation on that sort of capital.
Colonel Sutphen, willing to make amends, and aware that Carter and Carrick had not yet been formally acquitted, arose and addressed Her Grace. "I think we may take it, Highness, that this gentleman and his his servant are vindicated." The word servant caused him some difficulty as he was not prepared to relegate Carrick to such servile rank.
"I've called on you, Professor Kennedy, to see if I can't interest you in the campaign I am planning against drugs." Mrs. Claydon Sutphen, social leader and suffragist, had scarcely more than introduced herself when she launched earnestly into the reason for her visit to us.
Sutphen would have been a better companion than I?" "I don't know as yet. I have never tried you. I do know Ichabod." "Or perhaps the truer courtesy would be to leave you alone with the sea? You were making a picture of it in your mind a while ago?" "No," knitting her brows. "I could not do that.
"I warned her that if she mixed up in any such fight as this she might expect almost anything," remarked Mr. Sutphen nervously, as he met us in the reception room. "She's all right, now, I guess, but if it hadn't been for the prompt work of the ambulance surgeon I sent for, Dr. Coleman says she would have died in fifteen minutes." "How did it happen?" asked Craig.
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