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Updated: June 26, 2025
"That's partly the result of long experience in these bazaar affairs, and partly because we both have a sort of natural efficiency. That's a much used word, Zaly, but it means a lot after all." "Yes, it does. What's your booth, Elise?" "It isn't exactly a booth. I'm going to have a log cabin, a real one, built just as I've planned it, and in it I'm going to sell all sorts of old-fashioned things."
Be a sensible girl, and face the music! Why don't you own it all up, and tell Farnsworth the whole story? It isn't a criminal thing to act in the 'movies." "They think it is, Bill and Patty. They'd never forgive me!" "Oh, pshaw, they would, too! Anyway, I want you to do it, tell 'em, I mean. Won't you, Zaly, won't you, for my sake?"
Azalea offered Elise a small volume it was a new humorous publication, and one Elise had expressed a desire to read. She took it, saying, "All right, Zaly, go ahead, but don't be too long." Azalea left her, and Elise soon became absorbed in the book. It was a full half hour before Azalea returned. "Where have you been?" asked Elise, looking up, and then glancing at her watch.
"Good for you, Zaly," cried Patty; "we'll have it, and you and I will run it, and Fleurette shall be the presiding genius, and sit enthroned among the fairy wares! Oh, it will be lovely!" "Yes, do have it," agreed Betty. "It will be a screaming success with Fleurette in it!"
"Oh, you do! you do!" exclaimed Patty, remorseful now at having teased him. "And now, Sweet William, what's your idea of a right and proper punishment for Cousin Azalea?" "That's a matter for some thought," he responded, mindful of Mona's words. "Look here, Patty, quite aside from Fleurette's connection with this case, what's your opinion of Zaly as a 'movie' star?"
She was enthusiastic about her talent and her beauty, really, Bill, she looked very beautiful in the pictures." "Oh, Zaly is good-looking enough. But her taking our baby is why, there's no term suitable! Where is Azalea!" "I hope nowhere near, while you look like that!" and Mona laughed. "Your expression is positively murderous!" "I feel almost that way! Just think, Mona, Azalea is my relative!
I don't call that good manners!" "You're not supposed to know what good manners are," said Elise, giving her a condescending look. "And even if you think you do, don't try to teach me!" "Oh, Elise," said Patty, reproachfully, "don't talk like that! It reflects on you even more than on Zaly."
"I know it. I like Ray, too, but sometimes, think, he knows something about her that he won't tell us." "For mercy's sake, what do you mean? knows something about your own cousin that you don't know!" "Oh, Zaly isn't our own cousin, you know. But well, never mind now, Elise. This isn't a good time to talk confidentially."
"No-sir-ee! Zaly is a terror, and a trial in lots of ways, but if she had let that child fall, she would have called Patty and Winnie and the whole household for help, and would have run for the doctor herself! She never would have run away! Not Azalea! She's no coward, whatever other unpleasant traits she may possess." "That's so," agreed Patty; "and she truly loves the baby.
"Then, come now, Zaly, 'fess up. Was it for a joke on me?" "Yes, yes, that was it!" "No, that wasn't it, and you only grasped at my suggestion to evade the real truth! Now, you must tell me. Out with it!" "Well you see, Cousin William, you are always asking me why I don't get letters from my father, and as I didn't get any, I manufactured one to to satisfy you. That's all."
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