Why, she wasn't half so much affected by
her own marriage."
"I--I haven't pulled myself together yet. Funny thing--I've just
been watching my wife dancing with the man she is engaged to. Gee!
It's great to be married."
"She's the dearest thing I ever saw; and wasn't she game? Alice
will cry for weeks over this. Why, it's the sob-fest of her
lifetime. She's bursting with grief and rapture. I hope your wife
can keep a secret better than mine, otherwise there will be a
tremendous commotion before to-morrow's sun sets. I suppose now
I'll have to hang around home with my finger on my lip, saying
'Hist!' until the news comes out. Whew! I am thirsty."
Anthony did not tell his friend about the detective in Colon and
his mysterious warning, partly because he was not greatly
disturbed by it and trusted to meeting the difficulty in proper
time, and partly because his mind was once more too full of his
great good-fortune to permit of any other interest. Now that he
had some one to whom he could talk freely, he let himself go, and
he was deep in conversation when Stephen Cortlandt strolled up and
stopped for an instant to say:
"Quite a lively party, isn't it?"
Kirk noticed how sallow he had grown in the past few months, and
how he had fallen off in weight.
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