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'Well, To-to does not like the idea of anyone taking Helena's place except himself. Now, you will see; when we all settle down, and no one presumes to try for that chair, To-to will quietly drop out of it and allow the remainder of the performance to go undisturbed.
'Yes, Helena answered; 'but it is all quite clear. To-to knows that he belongs to Sir Rupert, but he is satisfied in his own mind that I belong to him. 'I see, the Dictator said with a smile. 'I quite understand the situation now. There is no divided duty. 'Oh, no, not in the least. All our positions are marked out.
"See poor To-to!" she exclaimed, feebly, as her eyes fell on a battered old doll in the spangled dress of a carnival clown that lay at the foot of her bed. "Poor dear old To-to! He will think I do not love him any more, because my throat hurts me. Give him to me, papa!"
The moment he heard the bell ring at the great door he wanted to know who was coming in, and he ran down the stairs and stood in the hall to find out. When the door was opened, and the visitor appeared, To-to instantly made up his mind.
The room looked lonely to the Dictator. Helena was not there. 'My daughter is not coming down to luncheon, Sir Rupert said. 'I am so sorry, the Dictator said. 'Nothing serious, I hope? 'Oh, no! a cold, or something like that she didn't tell me. She will be quite well, I hope, to-morrow. You see how To-to keeps her place.
Being informed that she was at home, then it depended on To-to to let the visitor know whether Miss Langley was actually in her drawing-room waiting to receive him, or whether he was to be shown into the drawing-room and told that Miss Langley would be duly informed of his presence, and asked if he would be good enough to take a chair and wait for a moment.
Ericson then saw that To-to was seated resolutely on the chair which Helena usually occupied at luncheon. 'But what is the use if she is not coming? the Dictator suggested not to disparage the intelligence of To-to, but only to find out, if he could, the motive of that undoubtedly sagacious animal's taking such a definite attitude.
And as I obeyed her request she encircled the doll with one arm, while she still clung to me with the other, and added: "To-to remembers you, papa; you know you brought him from Rome, and he is fond of you, too but not as fond as I am!" And her dark eyes glittered feverishly. Suddenly her glance fell on Assunta, whose gray head was buried in her hands as she knelt. "Assunta!"
He was only studying in his mind the curious fact that he certainly was thinking about Helena Langley as he stood on the bridge and looked on the water; and that, if the knife of the ladies' slipper-maker had done its business promptly, the last thought in his mind, the last feeling in his heart, would have been given not to Gloria but to Helena Langley. He was welcomed and ushered by To-to.
"You go back to the house an' tell y'r mother you're too lame to plow any more today, and it's too late, anyhow. To-night!" he whispered quickiy. "Eleven! Here!" The girl's heart leaped with fear. "I'm afraid." "Not of me, are yeh?" "No, I'm not afraid of you, Rob." "I'm glad o' that. I-I want you to-to like me, Julyie; won't you?" "I'll try," she answered with a smile.
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