"
"Bab," he said in an ernest tone, "that, in twenty words,
is the whole story of all the troubles between what you call the
Sexes. The only diference between Tommy Gray and me is that I
would not want to play around with any one else if--well, if
engaged to anyone like you. And I feel a lot like looking him up
and giving him a good thrashing."
He paid me fifty cents and a quarter tip, and offered,
although poor, to lend me some Money. But I refused.
"I have made my bed," I said, "and I shall occupy it,
Carter. I can have no companion in misfortune."
It was that night that another house near the Club was
robed, and everything taken, including groceries and a case of
champane. The Summer People got together the next day at the
Club and offered a reward of two hundred dollars, and engaged a
night watchman with a motor-cycle, which I considered silly, as
one could hear him coming when to miles off, and any how he
spent most of the time taking the maids for rides, and broke an
arm for one of them.
Jane spent the night with me, and being unable to sleep,
owing to dieting again and having an emty stomache, wakened me
at 2 A.
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