CHAPTER XII
ANOTHER MISSED APPOINTMENT
The trio from Meadow Brook, on their way to Sunset Rock galloped up to the Hollis Creek porch, and, finding Miss Stevens there, gaily demanded that she accompany them.
“I’m sorry,” said Miss Stevens, who was already in driving costume, “but I have an engagement at ten o’clock,” and she looked back through the window into the office, where the clock then stood at two minutes of the appointed time; then she looked rather impatiently down the driveway, as she had been doing for the past five minutes.
“Well, at least you’ll come back to the bar with us and have an ice-cream cocktail,” insisted Princeman, reining up close to the porch and putting his hand upon the rail in front of her.
“I don’t see how I can refuse that,” said Miss Stevens with a smil
