"Bully, I say!" cried Cecile.
"Really heroic," added Marian. "Mother will never get over talking about it."
"Oh! I wish you wouldn't," murmured Louise. "I'm glad Betty and I saved him. Mrs. Gallup did quite as much as I——"
"We know all that," Prue broke in quickly. "And daddy's made it up to her."
"Yes. I know. He was very liberal," Louise agreed.
"But mercy!" cried Prue. "He can't send you a check, Miss Grayling. And we all do feel deeply grateful to you. Ford is an awfully good sort of a chap—for a brother."
Louise laughed outright at that. "I suppose, though never having had a brother, I can appreciate his good qualities fully as much as you girls," she said. "Will he be long away?"
"That we don't know," Marian said slowly. Louise had asked the question so lightly that Miss Tapp could not be sure there was any real interest behind it. But Cecile, who had alighted to crank up, whispered to Louise:
"You know what he's gone away for? No? To get a job! He and father have disagreed dreadfully."
"Oh! I am so sorry," murmured Louise. She would not ask any further questions. She was troubled, however, by this information, for L'Enfant Terrible seemed to have said it significantly. Louise wondered very much what had caused the quarrel between Lawford and his father.