The coming of
PEG may do it for me."
She went on out of sight.
Alaric was half-inclined to follow her. He knew she was taking their
bad luck to heart withal she said so little. He was really quite
fond of Ethel in a selfish, brotherly way. But for the moment he
decided to let Ethel worry it out alone while he would go to the
railway station and meet his friend's train. He called to his mother
as she passed through the door:
"Wait a minute, mater, and I'll go with you as far as the station-
road and see if I can head Jerry off. His train is almost due if
it's punctual."
He was genuinely concerned that his old chum should not meet that
impossible little red-headed Irish heathen whom an unkind fate had
dropped down in their midst.
At the hall-door Mrs. Chichester told Jarvis that her niece was not
to leave her room without permission.
As Mrs. Chichester and Alaric passed out they little dreamt that the
same relentless fate was planning still further humiliations for the
unfortunate family and through the new and unwelcome addition to it.
CHAPTER VI
JERRY
Peg was shown by the maid, Bennett, into a charming old-world room
overlooking the rose garden. Everything about it was in the most
exquisite taste.
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