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"Explain nothin'!" Dan reddened swiftly. "Excuse me, Miss. Delia's no more of a hand at askin' questions than me, and she's a good judge of people. She can tell you're a lady in a minute, and she'll make you more than welcome if you can put up with the plainness of everything. I'll have you there in ten minutes." Dan was as good as his word, and Willa found that he had spoken truly.
The charms of Limasito would pall, I fancy, after all this; yet such things sometimes happen." "I trust not, for your sake," Willa responded. "You would scarcely find the climate of Limasito a healthy one, if your activities were fully comprehended there." "I was not thinking of myself " he smiled once more "but of an old fairy tale which I mentioned to you in the Park.
North, you told me to come to you if I was in any difficulty, and and I'm here!" "Certainly, my dear!" He was plainly startled. "I shall be delighted to be of any service that I can. What is it that you wish my advice on?" "I don't want any advice! I want you to help me compound a felony." "My dear Willa!" His rotund face paled. "Are you serious? You cannot realize what you have said!"
Was it an idle bluff, or had the young scamp managed in some way to protect himself? The conclusion of his cogitations led him to the telephone and a half hour later found him confronting Mason North in the latter's home, much as Willa had done on the previous night. "Sorry to have disturbed you, Mr. North, but this is a strictly confidential matter, and rather urgent.
"Why should you want to see me?" Willa demanded, frankly. "I don't mean to be ungracious, Winnie, we've grown to be awfully good friends in these two months, but I've been through so much just lately that the Willa Murdaugh episode seems far away, and all the people I knew then are like dream people. I I'm starting in all over again, you see, and I meant to do it with a clean, blank sheet."
She is the undoubted owner of almost boundless wealth and when I have gone after her and won her consent " "Stop!" Willa clapped her hands to her ears. "I will not listen to one more word! It is a lie, I tell you! A lie!" "There isn't any more," Angie announced with a sly grimace. "That is the bottom of the page, but it ought to be enough for you."
"No," Willa interposed. "I'm going to show you what we do with a crook below the border. Mr. North, will you take this pack and deal face up for Mr. Shirley? You'll find that somebody will have a hand to go the limit on, but our friend over there will top him, pat."
"That means we've missed three dances, and you were to have had two of them with Angie! You'll be in for a dreadful panning " "You wicked little adorable little girl o' mine!" he exclaimed softly, as Winnie's mildly inquiring face appeared around a narrow alley between the close-packed flowering plants. "I'm coming to-morrow, before breakfast " Willa shook her head, the light waning in her eyes.
Willa cried, wincing as if he had struck her a blow. "You wrote that about Tia Juana! And I I oh, how blind I was! How wickedly, cruelly blind!" "Now it is I who do not understand." He shrugged. "What does it matter, anyway? I never succeeded in finding Tia Juana or in something else which was of even more moment to me. Gentleman Geoff trusted me, however, and I have fulfilled that trust.
I'm your cousin, Angelica." "Named after a dessert." A languid, teasing voice came from behind her. "Welcome to our city, my dear cousin! Hope you won't find us too peaceable after Mexico." "No fear!" The doll-like eyes snapped dangerously. "This is my brother Vernon, Willa. Mother will be down in a moment."
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