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Taking leave of her new henchman, Willa crossed the Park on foot and swung down the Avenue, so intent upon her own thoughts that she all but collided with Vernon, descending the steps of his club. He appeared troubled and morose, but his brow cleared at sight of her. "Hello! May I walk a bit of the way with you?" He fell into step beside her.
Willa herself had no more comprehensive plan; she had advertised discreetly in Spanish in the "personal" column of a morning newspaper and followed every tentative line of investigation which presented itself to her, but messages to each stage of the journey back to Limasito and exhaustive questioning of the few individuals with whom Tia Juana had come in contact in New York were alike unproductive of result.
I want a talk with the lad as soon as he is well enough. I'll report to you, Miss, just as quick as anything turns up." Willa gave him some final instructions and hung up the receiver, to find Angie at her elbow. "You've been an unconscionable time!" the latter complained, veiling her eyes to conceal their gleam of awakened curiosity and interest. "We're waiting for you to make up a rubber.
For a moment Willa sat as if stunned, then she bent swiftly, and, whipping off her shoe and stocking, thrust out a slender pink foot. The inner side was seared with a tiny forked red line, slight but unmistakable. "You!" Klondike Kate rose slowly. "You are Billie!" With a little sob Willa went to meet her, and in an instant the two were crying in each other's arms.
"So do I," Willa retorted frankly. "They were men, anyway. You are unjust because you are hurt, and I am sorry for you. I wish you could understand, but I am afraid you will not believe me. Mr. Wiley " "Will you kindly leave his name out of this discussion?" demanded Angie. "I am not in the least jealous, I assure you!
"Then climb up again." Willa paused and added deliberately: "Don't try to burrow a passage-way through slime, Vernon. You'll only get in deeper and deeper." That brought his head up with a suspicious start. "I say, what do you know about it?" "Suppose you tell me?" "You, Willa? You're the last person in the world !" He broke off hastily. "Why?
Willa turned on her at last. "Lord, what a miserable specimen of a girl you are, anyhow! I knew you were spying about and listening at my heels here at home to learn what you could and run with it to the man who's making a tool of you and a fool besides, but I didn't think you were so low down as to skulk about and pry into affairs which are no concern of yours! Is nothing sacred to you?"
"Naturally," he conceded, adding quickly: "But you are fortunately not troubled with the details of your estate, while you have two such efficient guardians as Mr. North and your cousin." The rising inflection in his tone seemed to demand a reply, but Willa vouchsafed none and after a moment he went on: "You must find the social life very engrossing.
Served 'em good and right after the way they treated you." Willa shook her head wearily. "They were pretty decent, Sallie, and both Ripley Halstead and Mr. North were always kind. I couldn't have let them suffer for a mistake. How is Tia Juana? You must let me see her the next time she comes." Sallie chuckled.
"I am willing to stake my life that it will come true." She smiled, adopting his own light bantering tone. "Is it worth so high a stake? Good-night, Angie." Without waiting for a reply, she bowed, and, turning, left them together. Willa paused in the vestibule of the shabby apartment-house and looked carefully up and down the street before venturing forth.
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