If she told the truth, told that Jimmie
Carlisle was still alive, that might be just touching the trigger of a
devastating tragedy--might be disaster for all. What would be the use
when no one would have been benefited?
And so, in the wisdom of her old head and the entanglements of her old
heart, the Duchess decided she would never tell. And that loving,
human decision she was to cling to through the stress of times to
come.
But even while she was thus deciding upon a measure to checkmate them
both, Larry was pacing his room at Cedar Crest, at last excitedly
evolving the elusive plan which was to bring Maggie to her senses and
also to him; and Maggie, all unconscious of this new element which had
entered as a potential factor in her existence, all unconscious of how
far she had been guided from the course which had been charted for
her, was lying awake at the Grantham after a late party at which Dick
Sherwood had been her escort, and was exulting pridefully over the
seemingly near consummation of the plan that was to show Larry
Brainard how wrong he was and that was to establish her as the
cleverest woman in her line--better even than Barney or Old Jimmie
believed her.
And thus separate wills each strove to direct their own lives and
other lives according to their own separate plans; little thinking to
what extent they were all entangled in a common destiny; and thinking
not at all of the further seed that was being sown for the harvest-
time of the whirlwind.
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