Arms's eyes twinkled, but he bent over his plate solemnly.
“Eddy, you are talking altogether too much,” Anna Carroll said.
“You are unusually silly this morning, Eddy,” said Charlotte. “There is no point in such a remark as that.”
“You said Arthur had gone to Chicago?” Arms said to Mrs. Carroll.
“Well, the funny part of it is, we don't exactly know whether he has or not,” replied Mrs. Carroll, “but we judge so. Arthur had been talking about going to Chicago. He had spoken about the possibility of his having to go for some time, and all of a sudden that morning came a telegram from New York saying that he was called away on business.”
“Amy, of course he went to Chicago,” Anna Carroll said, quickly. “You know there is no doubt of it. He said he might have to go there on business, and he had carried a dress-suit case in to the office, to have it ready, and he had given you the Chicago hotel address.”
“Yes, so he did, Anna,” assented Mrs. Carroll. “I suppose he must have gone to Chicago.”
“You have written him there, I suppose?” said Arms, who was evidently perturbed.
“Oh yes,” replied Mrs. Carroll, easily, “I have written three times.”
“Did you put a return address on the corner of the envelope in case he was not there?”