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Updated: August 22, 2024
As August drew to a close John began to regret that he must soon go back to school. He and Kismine had decided to elope the following June. "It would be nicer to be married here," Kismine confessed, "but of course I could never get father's permission to marry you at all. Next to that I'd rather elope.
"If I come home with a wife at my age my father is just as liable as not to cut me off with a hot coal, as they say down there." Jasmine spoke up. "I love washing," she said quietly. "I have always washed my own handkerchiefs. I'll take in laundry and support you both." "Do they have washwomen in Hades?" asked Kismine innocently. "Of course," answered John. "It's just like anywhere else."
Then John perceived that Kismine, like her sister, had fallen sound asleep. It was long after four when he became aware of footsteps along the path they had lately followed, and he waited in breathless silence until the persons to whom they belonged had passed the vantage-point he occupied.
Washington, followed by the two boys, was already strolling on toward the ninth hole of the golf course, as though the pit and its contents were no more than a hazard over which his facile iron had triumphed with ease. July under the lee of the diamond mountain was a month of blanket nights and of warm, glowing days. John and Kismine were in love. But it did.
It was probable that Percy was hurrying to his father's assistance, and it occurred to John that this was his opportunity to join Kismine and plan an immediate escape. He waited until the lift had been silent for several minutes; shivering a little with the night cool that whipped in through his wet pyjamas, he returned to his room and dressed himself quickly.
I always think that food tastes better outdoors." "With that remark," remarked Kismine, "Jasmine enters the middle class." "Now," said John eagerly, "turn out your pocket and let's see what jewels you brought along. If you made a good selection we three ought to live comfortably all the rest of our lives."
"Nobody," answered Kismine quickly. "We were just joking." "What are you two doing here, anyhow?" he demanded gruffly. "Kismine, you ought to be to be reading or playing golf with your sister. Go read! Go play golf! Don't let me find you here when I come back!" Then he bowed at John and went up the path. "See?" said Kismine crossly, when he was out of hearing. "You've spoiled it all.
Then he mounted a long flight of stairs and turned down the corridor carpeted with Russian sable which led to Kismine's suite. The door of her sitting-room was open and the lamps were lighted. Kismine, in an angora kimono, stood near the window Of the room in a listening attitude, and as John entered noiselessly she turned toward him. "Oh, it's you!" she whispered, crossing the room to him.
Kismine seemed to regret her words. "Oh, yes," she said hurriedly, "we've had a few." "But aren't you wasn't your father afraid they'd talk outside?" "Oh, to some extent, to some extent," she answered, "Let's talk about something pleasanter." But John's curiosity was aroused. "Something pleasanter!" he demanded. "What's unpleasant about that? Weren't they nice girls?"
To his great surprise Kismine began to weep. "Yes th that's the the whole t-trouble. I grew qu-quite attached to some of them. So did Jasmine, but she kept inv-viting them anyway. I couldn't understand it." A dark suspicion was born in John's heart. "Do you mean that they told, and your father had them removed?" "Worse than that," she muttered brokenly.
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