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Updated: May 14, 2025
All the same I got what was coming to me from some of the boys of the Strong Arm Club." "Why do they give it that name?" asked Lane, remembering Colonel Pepper's remarks. "Why, if a girl doesn't come across she gets the strong arm.... I had to fight like the devil that last afternoon I went there." "Did you fight, Bessy?" "I'll say I did.... Roy Vancey is sore as a pup.
Who told you I was there? Your sister Lorna?" "No. No one told me. Never mind that. Who took you there? You needn't be afraid to trust me. I'm going to entrust my secrets to you by and bye." "I went with Roy Vancey, the boy who was with me at Helen's the day I met you." "Bessy, how often have you been to those club-rooms?" "Three times." "Were you ever there alone without any girls?" "No.
Daren Lane, I'm very happy to meet some one from 'over there," she said, with the ease and self-possession of a woman of the world. But when she smiled a beautiful, wonderful light seemed to shine from eyes and face and lips a smile of youth. Helen introduced her companion as Roy Vancey.
Even if the war had not disrupted his mind in an unaccountable way, even if he had loved Helen Wrapp right up to that moment, such singular abandonment to a distorted strange music, to the close and unmistakably sensual embrace of a man that spectacle would have killed his love. Lane turned his gaze away. The young fellow Vancey was pulling at Bessy Bell, and she shook his hand off.
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