I've been thinking it over, and I've come to the
conclusion that we'll be doing the wisest thing in the world if we
pay absolutely no attention to her."
"By George, I believe you've hit it, Lou! She'll be looking for a
letter or telegram from me and she'll not receive a word, eh? She'll
be expecting us to beg her to come back and all the while we just sit
tight and say not a word. We'll fool her, by thunder. By to-morrow
afternoon she'll be so curious to know what's got into us that she'll
come home on a run. You're right. It takes a thief to catch a thief,
--which is another way of saying that it takes a woman to understand a
woman. We'll sit tight and let Maud worry for a day or two. It will
do her good."
Maud's continued absence was explained to Prince Robin that evening,
not by the volcanic Mr. Blithers but by his practised and adroit
better-half who had no compunction in ascribing it to the alarming
condition of a very dear friend in New York,--one of the Van Valkens,
you know.
"Maud is so tender-hearted, so loyal, so really sweet about her
friends, that nothing in the world could have induced her to leave
this dear friend, don't you know.
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