“Sorry to intrude,” Miss Withers said, “but I haven’t any use for this thing after all, and I thought you might like to add it to your collection of Mexican curios.” She held out the great six-foot bow of ash, with its beads and colored windings in the ancient formal fashions of the Toltecs. “Why—why how nice!” Adele Mabie accepted the offering, looking pleased and a little bewildered. “Oh, Dulcie”—she raised her voice—“when you finish wrapping those cups, please come here a moment.” There was a murmur from the bedroom. Miss Withers was honestly surprised. “But I thought the little Prothero girl was going to the Floating Gardens this afternoon!” Adele Mabie lowered her voice to an intimate whisper. “So did she! But, after all, she’s working for me now. And if she is well enough to go off excursioning with a young man, she’s well enough to help pack my curios!” The schoolteacher didn’t say anything. Adele went on: “I feel responsible for her, you see—and I’m not going to let her go off with a young man nobody knows for a boat ride—until all hours!
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