“I don't need to think over this, Mr. Higginson.”
“Take it along; take it along. I guess I've talked enough for this afternoon. I'm a little tired.”
There was nothing to do now but to go. As he passed down the stairs he saw Crosman and Mamie standing anxiously in the parlour doorway.
“Did they say anything about our coming up?” said Crosman.
Halloran stopped short. “By Jove!” he said; and then: “Say, I'm sorry, but I clean forgot you. It comes to the same thing, anyhow; I never could have said a word. I guess it's up to you.”
He stood aside. Mamie looked at Crosman.
“Well, say, Mamie, where is she?”
“In her room, I guess.”
“You go up ahead, Mamie, and find out if I can see her.”
So with a dejected expression, Mamie piloting him, Crosman started up the stairs just as Halloran left the house.