Part 37 (1/2)
”I don't understand that”
Walters sood-hu you didn't like I don't know that I can go farther without venturing on an open coetting better, but must be kept quiet for soht to be obvious,” Walters replied in a tone of mild protest
”You blah I don't knohat I left undone, I am, in a sense, responsible; anyway, I ith hio east, and determined to put off my business for a day or two so I could stop over and see how he is getting on”
”Youand needs quietness”
”I'll be very careful,” Walters said with a grateful look ”May I take it that your consent is a sign that you'll try to forgive me for my share in the accident?”
Lucy forced a smile ”We'll see how you keep your pro rather limp, when he left her He had, on the surface, taken a very proper line, and his excuse for co was plausible, but she knew that it was false Thethe rocks and was horribly clever It was hard to preserve her calht she had not acted badly, the interview had been trying
Besides, Lawrence was generous and not very discri the suspicions Foster had roused
When the page showed Walters to his rooo to the station fordown to send a wire Office isn't open long Agent quits as soon as the east-bound freight coh”
”I suppose the wire's froave him twenty-five cents ”Well, if you can wait a little, I'll have a e to send; it will save you a journey”
The boy hesitated; but the et it written The freight's nearly due”
Walters went to Lawrence's rooain at dinner There were only two tables in use in the large dining-room, and the waiter sent hied this with thehim and she did not object She adh she feared him and her mother shared her distrust, he was able to banish the constraint both felt and aht, but he laughed at the other's stories and now and then bantered him
After dinner Walters left the-room Lucy re!”
”He is a,” Lawrence answered ”In fact, the fellow puzzles ood-humored, witty way if he had plotted to leave you on the _couloir_?”
”Well,” said Lawrence, ”I suppose I did feel soical,” Lucy rejoined, hiding her alarreed with Foster's conclusions when he was here”
”I did, to sos look pretty bad”
”But they look better now? Walters was talking to you in your room?”
”He didn't say ret for his carelessness in not seeing what had happened to the guide”
”Words that were very carefully chosen, no doubt!”
”Well,” said Lawrence, ”I'm frankly puzzled; the more I think about our adventure, the harder it is to decide how much one could hold Walters accountable for It _was_ difficult to throw , and there was only a sht have broken his bones, to prevent his tobogganing to the bottom
If he had slid past it, he would have been killed”