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avowed her intention of marrying for money if she ever had the chance? Her
meeting with the young American millionaire had given her the chance--and it
was unlikely she would be slow to avail herself of it. She was out for money. She
had always said so. Why blame her because she had been true to her creed?
Nevertheless, Tommy did blame her. He was filled with a passionate and utterly
illogical resentment. It was all very well to SAY things like that--but a REAL girl
would never marry for money. Tuppence was utterly cold-blooded and selfish,
and he would be delighted if he never saw her again! And it was a rotten world!
Julius's voice broke in on these meditations.
"Yes, we ought to get along together very well. I've heard that a girl always refuses
you once--a sort of convention."
Tommy caught his arm.
"
"
Refuses? Did you say REFUSES?"
Sure thing. Didn't I tell you that? She just rapped out a 'no' without any kind of
reason to it. The eternal feminine, the Huns call it, I've heard. But she'll come
round right enough. Likely enough, I hustled her some----"
But Tommy interrupted regardless of decorum.
"
What did she say in that note?" he demanded fiercely.
The obliging Julius handed it to him.
There's no earthly clue in it as to where she's gone," he assured Tommy. "But
"
you might as well see for yourself if you don't believe me."
The note, in Tuppence's well-known schoolboy writing, ran as follows:
"DEAR JULIUS,
"It's always better to have things in black and white. I don't feel I can be bothered
to think of marriage until Tommy is found. Let's leave it till then.
"
Yours affectionately,
TUPPENCE."
"
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