The girl's replies to Bane's observation were most inconsequential.
Her mind was upon Lawford and his condition. She was personally
uncomfortable, too; for although the sun and wind had dried her hair
and her blouse, beneath the dry skirt her clothing was wet.
As they came to the Shell Road the long, gray roadster Louise had seen
before came down from town. L'Enfant Terrible was at the wheel while
her two older sisters sat in the narrow seat behind. Cecile tossed a
saucy word over her shoulder, indicating Louise and Bane, and her older
sisters smiled superciliously upon the two pedestrians. Louise was too
deeply occupied with thoughts of the injured man to note this by-play.
CHAPTER XVII
THE ODDS AGAINST HIM
"Horrid taste she has, I must say," drawled Marian. Marian was the
eldest of the Tapp girls. To tell the truth (but this is strictly in
confidence and must go no further!) she had been christened Mary Ann
after Israel Tapp's commonplace mother. That, of course, was some time
before I. Tapp, the Salt Water Taffy King, had come into his kingdom
and assumed the robe and scepter of his present financial position.
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