Red-Robin

suspecting. She was so excited and there was so much to be done at the last moment, that

d, as he reached out for Robin's bag, shook, but Robin did not notice all that; she slipped quickly through t

egular intervals to steady his nerves-a trick he had always found most helpful in important legal trials. Robin kept her eyes glued on the back of the taxi driver's head but h

aded toward Central Park West the lawyer explained

ut to Wassumsic." He did not say that it was important, too, to g

ry much courage to run away that she had little left wit

er wing in a fluttery, mothery sort o

g at the two, "you, Effie, will have to

cried, astonished

ou are a Forsyth of Gray Manor now." He turned to his sister. "Effie,

, she could. She knew a shop where she co

to make out lists. Isn't

h shoes and finished with hats, with little abbreviations in brackets to include caps and scarfs and all sorts of things. "It is very cold in

wrist watch and a writing set. "They can s

ll a living-breathing girl; all seemed as unreal as

swept her. Cornelius Allendyce, turning from a protracted study of the blazing fire, was sta

xclaimed, very much as M

t help it

emorse seized Cornelius Allendyce. How could he have ta

not t

ns did when their wards were hysterical. "My dear, don't cry, I b

wfully lonesome-now. You see you don't know Jimmie. He depends on me to remind him of things

tless very tired from the excitement of everything. An

over to the divan upon which Cornelius Allendyce sa

ing to Gray Manor because of all those clothes and the money or anything like that. There could not b

ircled around this father-the father, by the girl's own assertion, "depending" upon the girl. And little Robin, scarcely more than a child, realizing that she hindered the

ts of finery and knick-knacks hel

ordon had lived for years and often in want in New York City, and had never approached Madame for as

le embarrassment he might suffer that Cornelius Allendyce thought at this moment; it was of the heartbreak of the father. He had not considered him at all; carried away by a mad impulse he ha

And this time, so eager was he to square himself with Robin's Jimmie, he ran up the st

e knew it was Jimmie. Another man stood over him, his face flushed with impatience. "Mr.

ce stopped short, for his usual measured words seemed out of place at this moment. "

ent as though he would spring at the littl

ait. Let

you would not let her go and she had quite made up her mind to give y

nger suddenly melted to abjection. Mr. Tony laid a co

best thing all around that could happen-a fine bit of luck for everyone. Robin will go up to Gray Manor and be as happy and safe as can be and

llendyce and studied his fac

e's sensitive. I've kept her away from everything that could hurt her. I've tried

and came back with a set expression on his face as though h

crooked little body-and not the child? Don't you keep her shut up in here because, when people stare at her-you suffer? Have you been fair t

ifferent-she doesn't

with me on this cruise and work your head off and at the end of the year-if Robin's not happy there, well

dyce's heart went out to him. He understood, all at once, what little Robin had me

she'd lived. And I've failed. Why, only last night she went to bed hungry." There followed a moment of tense silence, the

nt of his consternation upon discovering that Gordon Forsyth was a girl and not a boy. He repeated wor

of you. She was afraid you'd forget to take your hot mi

having to do with allowances and schooling. Then, when everything had

eave me here-alone." He held out his hand to M

reement