Terminations

The Coxon Fund-8

“So she has come out to marry George Gravener?” I demanded. “Wouldn’t it have been prettier of him to have saved her the trouble?”

“Hasn’t the House just met?” said Adelaide. Then she added: “I gather that her having come is exactly a sign that the marriage is a little shaky. If it were certain, a self-respecting girl like Ruth would have waited for him over there.”

I noted that they were already Ruth and Adelaide, but what I said was: “Do you mean that she has returned to make it a certainty?”

“No, I mean that I figure she has come out for some reason independent of it.” Adelaide could only figure as yet, and there was more, as we found, to be revealed. Mrs. Mulville, on hearing of her arrival, had brought the young lady out in the green landau for the Sunday. The Coxons were in posses