Alpha Book

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"They always are and always will be," smiled his sister.
He looked up at her: "Do you mean that anybody _else_ is a guest at
Brookminster?"
"Yes, Phil."
"Alixe?"
"Yes."
He looked down at the book on his knees and began to furrow the pages
absently.
"Phil," she said, "have you heard anything this summer--lately--about
the Ruthvens?"
"No."
"Nothing at all?"
"Not a word."
"You knew they were at Newport as usual."
"I took it for granted."
"And you have heard no rumours?--no gossip concerning them? Nothing
about a yacht?"
"Where was I to hear it? What gossip? What yacht?"
His sister said very seriously: "Alixe has been very careless."
"Everybody is. What of it?"
"It is understood that she and Jack Ruthven have separated."
He looked up quickly: "Who told you that?"
"A woman wrote me from Newport. . . . And Alixe is here and Jack Ruthven
is in New York. Several people have--I have heard about it from several
sources. I'm afraid it's true, Phil.


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