"Young man," said Aunt Eliza, turning on him like a flash, "did you buy a return ticket to America?"
"Yes, but——"
"Well, then," she interrupted, "you use it, the first chance you get. And as for you," addressing the two married couples, "the sooner you start for Melton Court the better; and don't let me hear of your being lost again."
"Aren't you coming with us, Miss Cogbill?" asked Scarsdale.
"The lawyer and I," replied that lady, "are the only two responsible persons in this crowd, and we'll stay right here and look after—Her Ladyship's Elephant."
HEINEMANN'S
CHEAPER NOVELS
A LITTLE LIST OF DELIGHTFUL BOOKS TO READ BY
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H. G. Wells
Jack London
E. F. Benson
John Galsworthy
H. de Vere Stacpoole
Philip Gibbs
Joseph Conrad
Stephen Crane
Duncan Schwann
Robert Hichens
Lloyd Osbourne
R. L. Stevenson
Richard Harding Davis
D. D. Wells
Baroness von Hutten
Frank Danby
Elizabeth Robins
Florence C. Price
Sybil Spottiswoode
Mrs. Henry Dudeney
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Eleanor Abbott
Charles Turley
Flora Annie Steel
Eleanor Mordaunt
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett
E. L. Voynich
Maxwell Gray