Midnight

rested. He motioned his visitor to a chair and s

the toes of her ultra-fashionable shoes she was expressive of the independent rising generation-a generation wiser in the ways of the wor

int, enthusiastic, irrepressible. She sat fidgeting in her chair, t

rse. She's one of the city's social leaders. Of course, she's kind of frumpy and terrib

-eight," sm

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o are really grown up and yet look like boys are simply adorable! I do, really. An

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g to make us girls think they're full-grown. I just s

s. And now-I believe you came to tel

frank approval-"I'm terribly tickled with the way you look. You ma

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rs all the time. Oh, I've read about everything you've done! That's ho

ecti

s when I couldn't think of the right one. Don't you think it's a lot of

ut about the

ubject, ain't I? I mean-am I not? Bother grammar

s Rogers.

ed a great deal about keeping my mind on one subject all the time. You know, it doesn't matter what you concentrate on-even if it's only making biscuits, or something messy and domestic like that-it does you good. It trains you not to waste words, and to store up your menta

d. And now let's try

en c

l. In fact, he was awfully friendly with me. To tell you the strict truth

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with us. He used to be around at the house all the time. Of course

ral

me through his horn-rimmed glasses and say I was entirely too young to be receiving attentions from a man as old as Mr. Warren; but he di

ally after she lear

rald would have disapproved-old frumps! Knowing him so intimately, and really believing that he was in love with me-although, of course, the minute he became enga

e trying to discov

's what I came t

. I'd quite

I had been you, and you had been I-me-I never would have forgotten what you came to see me about. Of course, I know you di

poor

nd Wa

ifficulty conc

d him again, suppose you tell me wh

s morning. Really, Mr. Carroll, there ought to be a l

, for in

mentioned Hazel Gresham, you'd have thought that they thought

ightly. The faint smile st

't think

se, please, don't be s

ld Hazel kill the man

n't k

That is the most bizarre idea I have ever heard in all

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ld, or anything like that. Of course, I do believe he was interested in me, and that made me know him pretty well; but still he was a

aid she couldn't. What

ugh I did read a funny article in the Sunday magazine secti

rren last night at midnight-she would

's not possible; s

ou think that

nk w

not with Mr. Warren a

Rogers simply, "I know

u k

d the what-you-cal

you kn

explained casually. "She

, clutched the bit of information, and turned it over. From the first Carroll had scouted the idea that the dead man's fiancee might have been responsible for his death; but still it was a line of inves

remendously with that

Rog

ew Hazel, of course-could even imagine her killing any one, and least

the pleasure of Miss G

lly, she's all broken up this morning because her wedding date was all s

nt the night wit

ainly

he

er ho

ure she was th

same bed-and that's certai

ppose

goodness gracious

. If you'

t bought a perfectly darling aluminum electric waffle-iron. It makes the most toothsome waffles-all crisp and everything. And you know when you use alum

you made th

d had a heart-to-heart talk. I can't tell you what we talked about, becau

u were still sitting up talkin

ink crêpe de chine, trimmed with satin. She looks simply

you went

ust abo

Miss Gresham d

't get to sleep until after one o'cl

s correct any impression they may have left that Miss Gresham might have been connected with t

tood before him. Her pre

helped you,

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hly anxious to be helpful in the world-I

e deli

you r

all

o you any time to

r you ge

pped he

I'm just simply crazy about you! I always have be

nk y

There she turned, and there wa

Car

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been nineteen ye

hy

en nineteen years old when I told you