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And then with a sudden abandonment of grief, she threw herself prostrate at her friend's knees. "Oh, Aggie, what can I do?" she cried. But Aggie was not satisfied with Zoie's fragmentary account of her latest escapade. "Is that the only thing that Alfred has against you?" she asked. "That's the LATEST," sniffled Zoie, in a heap at Aggie's feet.
"Break it to me?" gasped Alfred; a new light was beginning to dawn on his face. "So," concluded Zoie, now thoroughly at home in the new situation, "we asked Jimmy to take THAT one OUT." Jimmy cast an inscrutable glance in Zoie's direction. Was it possible that she was at last assisting him out of a difficulty? "You 'ASKED Jimmy'?" repeated Alfred.
"I got him for you, sir," announced the officer proudly, to the astonished Alfred, who had just managed to untwine Zoie's arms and to struggle to his feet. Alfred's eyes fell first upon the dejected Jimmy, then they travelled to the bundle of long clothes in the officer's arms. "My boy!" he cried. "My boy!" He snatched the infant from the officer and pressed him jealously to his breast.
You're just trying to spoil all the fun of my engagement." "I am not," cried Aggie, and the next moment she was sitting on the arm of Zoie's chair. "Goose!" she said, "how dare you be cross with me?"
Controlling her impulse to smile, Aggie crossed to the dressing-table with a business-like air and applied to Zoie's pink cheeks a third coating of powder. Zoie sat bolt upright and began to sneeze. "Aggie," she said, "I just hate you when you act like that." But suddenly she was seized with a new idea.
To Jimmy, the maid's pert "good-morning" seemed to be in very bad taste and to properly reprove her he assumed a grave, dignified air out of which he was promptly startled by Zoie's even more unseemly greeting. "Hello, Jimmy!" she snapped. Her tone was certainly not that of a heart-broken widow. "It's TIME you got here," she added with an injured air. Jimmy gazed at Zoie in astonishment.
At the 'phone he hesitated. "If Aggie HAS found out about the luncheon," he argued, "my 'phoning to Zoie's will increase her suspicions. If Zoie has told her nothing, she'll wonder why I'm 'phoning to Zoie's house. There's only one thing to do," he decided. "I must wait and say nothing. I can tell from Aggie's face when I meet her at dinner whether Zoie has betrayed me."
"Don't you sic any more lunatics onto me." It is doubtful whether Zoie's continued laughter might not have provoked Jimmy to desperate measures, had not the 'phone at that moment directed their thoughts toward worse possibilities. After the instrument had continued to ring persistently for what seemed to Zoie an age, she motioned to Jimmy to answer it.
"You know what happened the last time you hesitated," warned Aggie. "I know what happened when I DIDN'T hesitate," ruminated Jimmy, still holding his ground. Zoie's eyes were wide with surprise. "You don't mean to say," she exclaimed incredulously, "that you aren't GOING after we have thought all this out just to SAVE you?"
Zoie's dreams of rapture at Alfred's home coming had not included such divided attention as he was now showing her and she was growing more and more desperate at the turn affairs had taken. She resolved to put a stop to his nonsense and to make him realise that she and no one else was the lode star of his existence.
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