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I went back to bed. Hunger roused everybody early the next morning, Friday. Leila Mercer had discovered a box of bonbons that she had forgotten, and we divided them around. Aunt Selina asked for the candied fruit and got it quite a third of the box. We gathered in the lower hall and on the stairs and nibbled nauseating sweets while Mr. Harbison examined the telephone.
"I forgot to order the confounded dinner!" It was eight o'clock by that time, and as it took an hour at least after telephoning the order, everybody looked blank when they heard. The entire family, except Mr. Harbison, who had not appeared again, escorted Jim to the telephone and hung around hungrily, suggesting new dishes every minute. And then he couldn't raise Central.
If Aunt Selina wants me, she can find me here!" The first indication those men had that Mr. Harbison didn't know the state of affairs was when he turned and faced them. "Mrs. Wilson is quite right," he said gravely. "We're a selfish lot. If Miss Caruthers is a responsibility, let us share her." "To arms!"
"We have not examined the place, however; we shall wait for the proper officials." "Who do you want, Colonel?" "Coroner Taylor, and I suppose the sheriff," replied Harbison. The man nodded. "All right, I'll bring them; and say, what about the prosecuting attorney?" as he turned to leave. "Yes, bring Moxlow, too, if you can find him." The man hurried from the room.
Oh, there was no question about it, I decided; Dallas and Anne had taken a wolf to their bosom or is it a viper? and the Harbison man was the creature.
"Can't find him," he said. "I've got the telephone together and have enough left over to make another. Where do you suppose Harbison hides the tools? I'm working with a corkscrew and two palette knives." I heard nothing more of the trouble that night. Max went to Jim about it, and Jim said angrily that only a fool would interfere between a man and his wife wives.
What do yellow and red make? Green?" "Orange," Jim said shortly. "I wish you people would remember that we are trying to eat." The fact was, however, that no one was really eating, except Mr. Harbison who had given up trying to understand us, considering, no doubt, our subdued excitement as our normal condition.
Harbison and she Aunt Selina announced that the next day was Monday, that she had only a week's supply of clothing with her, and that no policeman who ever swung a mace should wash her undergarments for her. She paused a moment, but nobody offered to do it. Anne was reading De Maupassant under cover of a table, and the rest pretended not to hear.
As it happened, however, I need not have worried. I went down to dinner, languidly, when every one was seated, and found Max at my right, and Mr. Harbison moved over beside Bella. Every one was talking at once, for Flannigan, ambling around the table as airily as he walked his beat, had presented Bella with her bracelet on a salad plate, garnished with romaine.
"By the way, Jeff, you know the Titian-haired queen you were so taken up with at the station last evening that you couldn't greet your guests?" asked Tom Harbison. "I saw her again this morning." "That little country person!" exclaimed Jean Roland. "No style at all to her." "Not a particle!" echoed Nan. "Oh, that little cousin of ours?" said Jeff, pausing in his game.
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