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CHAPTER III WHEN THE CHIEF WAS AWAY,“Father was at a meeting last night.”,“O Billy!” Jean gasped, fear for the little, delicate girl in that eery place lending sympathy to her voice.,"Oh," cried Jen, recalling Dido's denial, "she knows of that, does she?","No," she said, quietly "I may persuade her into doing what I want.",I spent ten minutes telling Billy what a hippopotamus really looks like as I put him to bed, but later, much as I should have liked to, I couldn't consume that horrible dinner, that I had helped prepare at the Johnsons', in the shelter of John's arms, and I had to face Alfred. Ruth Clinton was there, and she faced him too.,This suggestion came from Isabella, but of it Dido took no notice. Without a word to mother or daughter, who were both in tears, she left the room. In the afternoon she was nowhere to be found, and both Mrs. Dallas and Isabella came to the conclusion that she had fled to avoid being forced into giving incriminating evidence. They fell into one another's arms and were beside themselves with terror. All the evil done by Dido and Etwald seemed likely to fall upon their innocent heads.,"It's the rheumatics. It's got into my feet and my shoulders. It's a pain as no spirits can stand up against.",He drops his eyes, and the low, sneering laugh she has learned to know and to hate so much comes again to his lips.,"I should think very few people would deem it a trouble to serve you," she says, graciously. "And perhaps, after all, you don't much care about dancing.","Return to my house and see Etwald!",“Yep! Here, take a squint through the telescope and see for yourself. The top of this wall is more’n halfway to the top of the canyon.”.