"
"Right again, Captain! I'd tell Isabel to-night, and ask her to send
the invitation--only I'm booked to scoot right back to the city for a
little party as soon as I get some things together, and I'll stay
overnight in the apartment. But I'll attend to the thing to-morrow
night, sure."
"May I ask just one favor in the meantime?"
"One favor? A dozen, Captain!"
"I'll take the other eleven later. Just now I only ask, since you
haven't proposed, that you won't--er--commit yourself any further, in
any way, with Miss Cameron until after you've told your sister and
until after Miss Cameron has been out here."
"Oh, I say now!" protested Dick.
"I am merely suggesting that affairs remain in statu quo until after
Miss Cameron's visit with your sister. That's not asking much of you,
Dick--nor asking it for a very long time."
"Oh, of course I'll do it, Captain," grumbled Dick affectionately.
"You've got me where I'll do almost anything you want me to do."
But Dick did not speak to his sister the following evening. The next
morning news came to Miss Sherwood of a friend's illness, and she and
her novel-reading aunt hurried off at once on what was to prove to be
a week's absence. But this delay in his plan did not worry Larry
greatly as it otherwise would have done, for Dick repeated his promise
to hold a stiff rein upon himself until after he should have spoken to
his sister.
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