My God! What a fool she is! thought one of the four men, with a sort of delight. I didn’t realize what a fool she was. Things aren’t so good for me just now. I’m in a spot, just now. But I can get out of it as long as she keeps this up.
As long as she doesn’t get to Stonebridge for a couple of days, I’ll be all right. She’s the only one who could really have made troupe for me. Serious trouble. But now she’s done for herself. Nothing she says now will carry any weight.
They’ll let her go in a few days. Her people will hear about this, in the course of time. Highly respectable people. And the girl’s highly respectable. They’re the easiest to handle. I remember that respectable girl on the ship. Thirtyish—a very good job. A good background. But she’d have thrown it all away—chucked everyth
