CHAPTER XXII
After Larry's many days and nights of futile searching of his brain
for a plan that would accord with his fundamental idea for awakening
the unguessed other self of Maggie, the plan, which finally came to
him complete in all its details in a single moment, was so simple and
obvious that he marveled it could have been plainly before his eyes
all this while without his ever seeing it. Of course the plan was
dangerous and of doubtful issue. It had to be so, because it involved
the reactions of strong-tempered persons as yet unacquainted who would
have no foreknowledge of the design behind their new relationship; and
because its success or failure, which might also mean his own complete
failure, the complete loss of all he had thus far gained, depended
largely upon the twist of events which he could not foresee and
therefore could not guide.
Briefly, his plan was so to manage as to have Maggie received in the
Sherwood household as a guest, to have her receive the frank,
unquestioning hospitality (and perhaps friendship) of such a gracious,
highly placed, unpretentious woman as Miss Sherwood, so distinctly a
native of, and not an immigrant to, the great world. To be received as
a friend by those against whom she plotted, to have the generous,
unsuspecting friendship of Miss Sherwood--if anything just then had a
chance to open the blinded Maggie's eyes to the evil and error of what
she was engaged upon, if anything had a chance to appeal to the finer
things he believed to exist unrecognized or suppressed in Maggie, this
was that thing.
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