CHAPTER SIXGamadge Does Not Laugh
Gamadge’s plane arrived in Canada on Monday, July the sixth. He reached Washington late that night, reported at headquarters, and then tried to get Clara by telephone. He was told that the number did not answer, growled invective against rural telephone services, and sent a telegram giving the address of his hotel. He said that he would be with her on Wednesday.
Three letters were waiting for him in the office; he waved off a dozen people while he read them, frowning a little at the last one; it was dated Wednesday the first, and told him that Clara was alone with Maggie in the cottage. Well, he was more than ever glad that he had been able to get home ahead of schedule.
He at last got to the hotel, and by one A.M. began to wonder whether the Connecticu
