[Romance Island by Zona Gale]@TWC D-Link bookRomance Island CHAPTER XV 2/17
How _did_ you get here? Some trick, I suppose ?" "My dear fellows," burst out Mr.Augustus Frothingham fervently, "thank God! I'm not, ordinarily, unequal to my situations, but I confess to you, as I would not to a client, that I don't object to sharing this one.
How did you come ?" "It's a house-party!" said Antoinette ecstatically. Amory looked at her in her blue gown in the light of the white room, and his spirits soared heavenward.
Why should St.George have an idea that he controlled the hour? From a tumult of questioning, none of which was fully answered before Mrs.Hastings put another query, the lawyer at length elicited the substance of what had occurred. "You came up the side of the mountain, carried by four of those frightful natives ?" shrilled Mrs.Hastings.
"Olivia, think.
It's a wonder they didn't murder you first and throw you over afterward, isn't it, Olivia? Oh, and my poor dear brother.
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