When Pamela emerged, she went in
search of Forest, interviewed him in the gun-room, and then shutting
herself up in the 'den' she wrote to Desmond.
'MY DEAR DEZZY--There are such queer things going on in this
queer house! Yesterday Broomie gave warning, and father
barricaded the park gates, and was perfectly mad, and
determined not to listen to anybody. In the middle of the night
he and Forest took the barricade down, and to-day, Broomie is
to be not only secretary, but land-agent, and anything else she
pleases--queen, in fact, of all she surveys--including me. But
I am bound to say she had been very decent to me over it all.
She _wants_ me to do some of the housekeeping--and she has
actually made father consent to my helping at the hospital
every afternoon. Of course I am awfully glad about that. I
shall bicycle over.
'But all the same it is very odd, and perhaps you and I had
better consider what it _may_ mean. I know from Broomie herself
that she gave notice yesterday--and now she is going to stay.
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