"Are you goin' back to London to-day?"
"By the afternoon express."
"May I go with you?"
"Certainly." "Thank ye," cried Peg. "I won't kape ye long. I've not
much to take with me. Just what I brought here--that's all."
She hurried across the room to the staircase. When, she was halfway
up the stairs, Jarvis entered and was immediately followed by Jerry.
Peg stopped when she saw him come into the rooom.
As Jarvis went out, Jerry turned and saw Peg looking down at him.
The expression on her face was at once stern and wistful and angry
and yearning.
He went forward eagerly.
"Peg!" he said gently, looking up at her.
"I'm goin' back to me father in half an hour!" and she went on up
the stairs.
"In half an hour?" he called after her.
"In thirty minutes!" she replied and disappeared.
As Jerry moved slowly away from the staircase, he met Montgomery
Hawkes.
CHAPTER XVI
THE CHIEF EXECUTOR, APPEARS UPON THE SCENE
"Why, how do you do, Sir Gerald?" and Hawkes went across quickly
with outstretched hand.
"Hello, Hawkes," replied Jerry, too preoccupied to return the act of
salutation. Instead, he nodded in the direction Peg had gone and
questioned:
"What does she mean--going in a few minutes?"
"She is returning to America.
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