But for her to
be under the influence of the worst crook of all, a stool, a cunning
traitor to his own friends--that was more than could possibly be
stood! In his rage in Maggie's behalf he forgot for the moment the
many evils Barney had done to himself. He thought of wild, incoherent,
vaguely tremendous plans. First he would get Maggie away from Barney
and Old Jimmie--somehow. Then he would square accounts with those
two--again by an undefined somehow.
Presently the tired, impersonal voice of the Grantham operator
remarked against his ear-drum: "Miss Cameron don't answer."
"Have her paged, please," he requested.
Larry, of course, could not know that his telephone call was the very
one which had rung in Maggie's room while Barney and Old Jimmie were
with her, and which Barney had harshly forbidden her to answer.
Therefore he could not know that any attempt to get Maggie by
telephone just then was futile.
When he came out of the booth, the impersonal voice having informed
him that Miss Cameron was not in, it was with the intention of calling
Maggie up between eight and nine when she probably would have returned
from dinner where he judged her now to be. He knew that Dick Sherwood
had no engagement with her, for Dick was to be out at Cedar Crest that
evening, so he judged it almost certain Maggie would be at home and
alone later on.
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