They were both rather sober after that, and following a short ride
around quiet streets Ed brought her home. Walter and Jack were gone.
"Good-by," said Ed as he started away. "If I--er--if I make my
suspicions a certainty I'll tell you before I do any one else."
"Will you--really?"
"Yes."
When the Robinson girls called on Cora the next afternoon she had
about completed her plans for the lawn fete. It was to be a novel
affair, and almost all the eligible young folks of Chelton were to
be invited.
"All," declared Cora, "except Sid Wilcox. He simply shall not
come."
"But how can you leave him out?" questioned Bess. "Especially as
you are going to ask Ida and others in that set."
"I simply will not have him," insisted Cora, "and I don't care what
any one thinks about it. He is too--too impertinent to be polite,
and I will not run the risk of having him offend some one."
Secretly Cora was thinking of his last transgression, and it
afforded her no small consolation to note that her particular
friends had not heard of the stolen ride.
Belle, "relaxing" on the low divan in the library window, just where
the sun could help her out on the rest theory, was too deeply buried
in thought to make rash comment on Cora's decision.
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