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Wiley glanced quickly at Willa, then turned to her cousin. "I am going on also. Will you give me a lift? I really dropped in just to say 'How-do-you-do'." "Good-night, Mr. Wiley." Willa held out her hand to him. "Good-night. Remember my prediction." His eyes rested upon her daringly, their ardor for a fleeting instant unmasked as the other girl turned away.
And am I to trust him, too?" "You can tell him anything as you would me, amiguito, but remember, no word of the Pool!" "That is written, Señorita Billie, on my heart! But will the grandmama ever return?" Willa soothed him as well as she was able, and, after a brief conference with Señorita Rodriguez, took her departure. A man was standing near the bottom of the steps, lighting a cigarette.
"Willa shall remain with us, of course," Ripley Halstead said with deep feeling. "This is a most unwelcome revelation to me, I may say to all of us. We have grown greatly attached to Willa and come to look upon her as quite one of ourselves. There is no reason, my dear, why you should not stay on indefinitely. I am sure my wife will be glad to second me in this." "Of course." Mrs.
"Even the less important disturbers, like El Negrito for instance, have their uses." "El Negrito?" He laid down his knife and fork. "That's what they call Alvarez, isn't it? I didn't know his fame had spread all over Mexico. You were at school there, I understand." Willa shook her head. "Not lately. I happened to be among those present when El Negrito made his last sortie from the hills."
We are only trying to safeguard your interests, and yourself. You are very young and unsophisticated and you know nothing of the city. We feel that you should be frank with us and tell us where it is that you go by yourself and what errand takes you. What are we to think if you do not explain?" "I don't know," Willa replied simply. "Partners trust each other, don't they?" Ripley Halstead smiled.
"Get out, Liane," she commanded briefly, and with one look at her blazing eyes the woman meekly obeyed. Willa turned to the chauffeur. "How much does your meter register? Take it out of this, keep the rest for yourself and go. Your fare will not need you any longer." The man hesitated, but his late passenger made no move, and the proffered banknote was a tempting one. He took it and went.
Halstead glanced from her daughter's flushed face to Willa's pale one, and her lips tightened. Had Angie been foolish enough to betray herself to this interloper? Willa was sincerely distressed. There had never been any real congeniality between the two girls, but her heart ached for the other's evident suffering.
"Oh, not not in that fashion! I mean for charity; war relief and that sort of thing. Quite respectable and praiseworthy." "I see," said Willa slowly. "It's only proper when you do it for nothing, just because you like it. If it's work, it isn't nice." Her interlocutor writhed, but cannily forbore argument.
Now, in your bursting conceit you think this impecunious fortune-hunter, Thode, is in love with you. I listened because it was my duty to keep any member of the family from throwing herself away and I wanted to see how far he would dare to go. I'm here now to tell you the truth." "I do not want to hear another word!" Willa cried hotly.
"We'll be late," Angie observed as she and Willa waited in the drawing-room for the rest of the family. It was the first remark she had voluntarily addressed to her cousin since she had come upon the tête-
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