"The deuce they have!" Neil muttered and hailing a cab he too drove to
the theater, and securing the best seat he could at that late hour,
looked over the house till he found the party he was searching for,
Archie, in his threadbare coat, and high, standing collar, looking a
little bored for himself, but pleased for Bessie, whose face was radiant
as she watched the progress of the play.
For once Neil forgot the puffs and the linen gown, and thought only of
the exquisitely beautiful face and rippling golden hair, for Bessie's
head was uncovered, and Neil saw that she received quite as much
admiration from the fashionable crowd as did Little Buttercup or the
Captain's daughter, and that Jack looked supremely happy and nodded to
his friends here and there as if to call their attention to the girl
beside him.
"Confound him!" Neil thought. "What business has he to take charge of
Bessie in this way? I'll not allow it!"
But Jack had the inside track and kept it, in spite of Neil; and during
the ten days Bessie remained in London he took her everywhere, and when
she left he knew much more of some parts of the city than he did before.
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