" Louis Gray detained his
sister Roberta on the stairs as they stopped to exchange greetings on a
certain evening in March. "It struck me suddenly that I hadn't seen him
for a blue moon, and I asked him why he didn't come round when he was in
town. He said he was sticking tight to that new business of his up in
Eastman, but he admitted he was to be here over Sunday. I invited him
round to-night, but to my surprise he wouldn't come. Said he had another
engagement, of course--thanked me fervently and all that--but there was
no getting him. It made me a bit suspicious of you, Bobby."
"I can't imagine why." But, in spite of herself, Roberta coloured. "He
came here when he was helping Uncle Calvin. There's no reason for his
coming now."
Her brother regarded her with the observing eye which sisters find it
difficult to evade. "He would have taken a job as nursemaid for Rosy, if
it would have given him a chance to go in and out of this old house, I
imagine. Rosy stuck to it, it was his infatuation for the home and the
members thereof, particularly Gordon and Dorothy. He undoubtedly was
struck with them--it would have been a hard heart that wasn't touched by
the sight of the boy--but if it was the kiddies he wanted, why didn't he
keep coming? Steve and Rosy would have welcomed him.
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