Do me a good turn--that's a dear. Take this letter home and
deliver it. Will you? And say I'm at the hotel waiting for an answer."
Now, you can see yourself that this was thrilling. The whole family was
watching every mail for a letter from Harry Goward and here he was
offering me one! I didn't show how excited I was; I just took the
letter and turned it over so I couldn't see the address and slipped it
into my pocket, and said, coldly, that I would deliver it with
pleasure. Harry Goward was looking quite cheerful again, but he said,
in a worried tone, that he hoped I wouldn't forget, because it was
very, very important. Then I dismissed him with a haughty bow, the way
they do on the stage, and this time he put his hat on and really went.
Of course after that I wanted to go straight home with the letter, but
I knew it wouldn't do to leave Lorraine bearing her terrible burden
without some one to comfort her. While I was trying to decide what to
do I saw Billy a block away with Sidney Tracy, and I whistled to him to
come, and beckoned with both hands at the same time to show it was
important. I had a beautiful idea. In that very instant I "planned my
course of action," as they say in books. I made up my mind that I would
send the letter home by Billy, and that would give me time to run over
to Maria's and get something to eat and ask Maria to go and comfort
Lorraine.
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