An exultant smile wreathed her full, ripe lips and
lighted the big black eyes with triumph.
"Poor little fool!" she said. "How nicely she baited her own trap, and
how nicely she walked into it! Thank the stars, she is out of my way!
Guy, if you let her come back, I'll never forgive you!"
"By Jove, Blanche!" said the doctor, bluntly, "if she ever comes back,
it will matter very little whether you forgive me or not. I shall
probably go for change of air to Sing Sing for the remainder of my
mortal career."
"Pooh! there is not the slightest danger. The ball is in your own hands;
Mollie is safe as safe in your dreary farmhouse by the sea. Your mother
and Sally and Peter are all true as steel; no danger of her escaping
from them."
"No; but they decline to have anything to do with my mad patient. It
was no easy matter, I can tell you, to get them to consent to having her
there at all. I must get her an attendant."
"That increases the risk. However, the risk is slight. Advertise."
"I mean to. I sent an advertisement to the papers before I came here,
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