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I must report to the Colonel first and then I can go get my wife." "Dr Harper may make some trouble, as his rule is not to let a patient out until the person who is responsible for her being there comes to remove her." "We'll see about that," and his jaws snapped together much to Josie's admiration. She had great respect for a firm jaw.
McCabe, box under his arm, stood in the doorway. Josie Fifer stood up so suddenly that the dress on her lap fell to the floor. She stepped over it heedlessly, and went toward McCabe, her eyes on the pasteboard box. Behind McCabe stood two more men, likewise box-laden. "Put them down here," said Josie. The men thumped the boxes down on the long table. Josie's fingers were already at the strings.
"I'll be right over," was Josie's brisk reply. "Thank goodness I haven't begun on those lace collars," she said to Elizabeth. "Lace should be washed and ironed at one sitting. You can expect me when you see me, dear. Irene will come in and help keep shop and if you get up against it call on Mary Louise or one of the other girls. So long!" She found Dr. Weston somewhat perturbed.
I do not see how he could avoid seeing this; but he did, and, as if abandoning her to her fate, he leaped to Josie's side. Cornish had seized her by the arm, and seemed about to devote himself to her safety, when Jim, without a word, lifted her in his arms, and leaped lightly upon the forward deck, the highest and driest place on the sinking craft.
Mary Louise had informed the old man of Josie's real profession, the Higgledy-Piggledy Shop being a mere by-product of the business of being a trained detective, and of her willingness to serve the Children's Home in the latter capacity whenever they needed her. "Miss O'Gorman, if you are not too busy I am in great need of your services," Dr. Weston said. "I have a feeling the matter is urgent."
Within a year I have submitted to a similar domestic upheaval on account of my elder daughter, and I do not think that it can be said that I acquitted myself in either case malignantly or even morosely. Indeed, though this is not strictly relevant to the discussion, my wife informed me after Josie's party was over that I had behaved like an angel.
It was not in the least the speech of the ordinary neat-handed Phyllis or Neæra; nor was her attitude at all countrified as she stood with her hand on her father's arm. The increasing darkness kept us from seeing her features. "Josie's my right-hand man," said her father. "Half the business of the farm stops when Josie goes away."
Montgomery had now joined the company, and with Josie's enlivening speeches it had a merry tone. "I cannot see how friend Herb should be so opportune," said Mr. Lawson, with an arch glance at the incorrigible Josie. "Defend yourself, Sir Knight," cried the latter, in her pretty artful way, that made the wavy ringlets play hide-and-seek with the utmost abandon.
Josie Herrick, petite, gowned in white, crisp from her maid's grooming; and Moran, sea-rover and daughter of a hundred Vikings, towering above her, booted and belted, gravely clasping Josie's hand in her own huge fist. San Francisco once more! For two days the "Bertha Millner" had been beating up the coast, fighting her way against northerly winds, butting into head seas.
Don't they, Angie?" "Oh, yes, indeed; they're all just dying to meet you." "I'll have to write and ask," he said abstractedly. "Why, what do you mean by that?" Josie's question struck him dumb with consternation. "It's I mean a little trouble with my throat," he managed to lie, at length. "I must ask my physician if I may, first." "Oh, I see," said Josie.
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