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 saw more of us than me after that. There I was, all right; where was Dorothy?

"By God, Steve; it's near three now; and she never came; she's not gone home or anywhere else where she would go. If it wasn't for those damned diamonds and sapphires they hung on her to-night, I might believe there's a chance for, a joke somewhere. But she's a couple of hundred thousand on her neck to-night; or anyway, she had, Steve. And the papers were telling all about it; 'Harrison Crewe brings to Chicago royal jewels' and all that stuff; you saw it, Steve.—I've been to the Crewes'; just came from them. They don't think anything's happened; nothing's ever happened in their family, you know. Things only happen to other people—things like what may be happening to Dorothy, Steve! Of course I couldn't make myself awfully clear; all they feel what has happened is that Dorothy, probably for good reasons of her own, dropped me and went off from the Sparlings' with somebody else and I'm overexcited about it. They don't think it's time yet to call in the police. You know them; I worried them but not to the point of having in the police and the newspapers on an affair of their own. But I called headquarters on my way out of their