Like as not your friend,
Professor Lamps, has got an equally good reason for keeping the
peace."
"Do you mean that this man will make trouble for you over this?"
"Not as things stand. So long as nothing was done--no arrests or
anything like that--he'll be glad to forget it, when he sobers
up. I'll forget it, too, and maybe, miss, it wouldn't be any harm
to anybody if you did a turn at forgetting, yourself."
But neither by the venturesome Miss Polly nor by her athlete
servitor was the episode to be so readily dismissed. Late that
afternoon, when the Brewster party were sitting about iced fruit
drinks amid the dingy and soiled elegance of the Kast's one
private parlor, Mr. Sherwen's card arrived, followed shortly by
Mr. Sherwen's immaculate self, creaseless except for one furrow of
the brow.
"How you are going to get out of here I really don't know," he
said.
"Why should we hurry?" inquired Miss Brewster. "I don't find
Caracuna so uninteresting."
"Never since I came here has it been so charming," said the
legation representative, with a smiling bow. "But, much as your
party adds to the landscape, I'm not at all sure that this city is
the most healthful spot for you at present.
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