[Romance Island by Zona Gale]@TWC D-Link bookRomance Island CHAPTER III 23/32
You know it because you have courteously given them every assistance in your power.
But the police have also been very ably assisted by every newspaper in town.
I am fortunate to be acting in the interests of one of these--the _Sentinel_.
This clue was put in my hands.
I came to you confident of your cooeperation." Mrs.Hastings threw up her hands with a gesture that caught away the chain of her eye-glass and sent it dangling in her lap, and her side-combs tinkling to the tiled floor. "Mercy!" she said, "a reporter!" St.George bowed. "But I never receive reporters!" she cried, "Olivia--don't you know? A newspaper reporter like that fearful man at Palm Beach, who put me in the Courtney's ball list in a blue silk when I never wear colours." "Now really, really, this intrusion--" began Mr.Frothingham, his long, unclosed hands working forward on his knees in undulations, as a worm travels. Miss Holland turned to St.George, the colour dyeing her face and throat, her manner a bewildering mingling of graciousness and hauteur. "My aunt is right," she said tranquilly, "we never have received any newspaper representative.
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