"
"Dick Sherwood!" she breathed.
"And I might as well tell you," he went on, "that since that night at
the Grantham when I heard his voice, I've known that Dick is the
sucker you and Barney and Old Jimmie are trying to trim."
She half rose, and her voice sounded sharply: "Then you've got me
caught in a trap! You've told them about me?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Not so loud, or we may attract attention," he warned her. "I haven't
told because you had your chance to give me away to Barney that night
at the Grantham. And you didn't give me away."
She sank slowly back to the bench. "Is that your only reason?"
"No," he answered truthfully. "Exposing you would merely mean that
you'd feel harder toward me--and harder toward every one else. I don't
want that."
She pondered this a moment. "Then--you're not going to tell?"
He shook his head. "I don't expect to. I want you to be free to decide
what you're going to do--though I hope you'll decide not to go through
with this thing you're doing."
She made no response. Larry had spoken with control until now, but his
next words burst from him.
"Don't you see what a situation it's put me in, Maggie--trying to
play square with my friends, the Sherwoods, and trying to play square
with you?"
Again she did not answer.
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