"Really, Jack, I'm beginning to suspect you're an old hand." Page 140
"Why, Jack, you don't look as though you had run at all," she said encouragingly.
"Oh, I picked up a buggy and took it easy," he said, seating himself and arranging the trouser crease with nicety. Then having perceived under the sofa the telltale slippers of Miss Clara Bedelle, he added, "I say, how did you ever keep it from Sis?"
"Oh, she thinks it's another caller," said Mimi, staring a little. "Really, Jack, I'm beginning to suspect you're an old hand."
"Well, of course this isn't the first time," he said, leaning back and sinking his fists in his trousers pockets.
Miss Mimi gave a gasp of astonishment.
"Well, I never, and all you said to me too about the photograph and the letters you tore up."
"Did you really believe all that?" said Skippy with a smile that seemed to cut across his face. His heart was bursting; yet the task of revenge was sweet. "You know Sidell and I are old hunting partners."
Miss Lafontaine sat upright, forgetting everybody in the dismay of her discovery.
"Jack Bedelle, do you mean to say that it was all fixed up between you two?"