I fled without ever looking behind. My heart was broken, my life wrecked, my hopes shattered. My Captain, my Man, whose eyes had told me the secret of his love, was pledged to another! If I hadn’t known it beyond any doubt, I wouldn’t have believed such perfidy possible. And the “valuable papers” he was carrying around were nothing but a girl’s dancing dress! For this I had raced to catch the train, for this I had ridden on a truck with a dead horse! No doubt he had lied to Dr. Thorn about the bag, because he was afraid he would find out what really was in it.
Righteous anger drowned my heartbroken tears. With head high I wandered down to the swimming pool in the gym and prepared to go in.
“Oh, Hinpoha, come and watch me do the new back dive,” called Agony. She mounted the diving platform and went off badly, striking the water with the flat of her back and making a splash like a house falling into the water. She righted herself and swam around lazily.
“Hinpoha,” she said suddenly, popping her head out of the water like a devil fish, “what did you ever do with them all? I expected to get at least one.”
“What did I do with what?” I asked in bewilderment.
“Chocolates, sweet cherub,” said Agony, kicking the water into foam with her feet. “I sent you five pounds.”
“You sent them?” I echoed blankly.
“Yes, dearest child, I sent them, and it took the last of my birthday check. Who did you think sent them?” And with a malicious grin she sank down under the surface of the water.
So it had been Agony who had sent the chocolates, and not Captain Bannister! I might have known—— Oh, what a fool I had been!
“What did you do with them all?” came Agony’s teasing voice from the other end of the pool, where she had risen to take the air.