"
"Sprague? Good Lord! Was he there?... This does promise to be
interesting! Tell me all!"
"Give me time!" Penny snapped. "I might as well talk, since there's
almost no work for me to do, with Bill away.... Ralph called me up last
night at dinner time, and asked me if I felt equal to playing bridge
again. He said that he, Clive, Tracey and Johnny Drake had lunched
together yesterday--as they frequently do--at the Athletic Club, and
that Judge Marshall, who had been lunching at another table with his
friend, Attorney Sampson, stopped at their table and suggested a bridge
game at his home for last night. Hugo said he wanted to coax Karen into
playing again, so she would get over her hysterical aversion to the game
since she had to replay that awful 'death hand'.... You see," Penny
explained parenthetically, "Hugo is a regular bridge fiend, and
naturally he doesn't want to be kept out of his game."
"Brute!" Dundee cried disgustedly. "Why couldn't he give the poor girl a
few days more?"
"That's what I thought," Penny acknowledged. "But _I_ didn't get an
inhibition against bridge, and the idea rather appealed to me
personally. The last few days haven't been particularly cheerful ones,
so I told Ralph I'd be glad to go. Tracey had suggested his house,
instead of Hugo's, because Betty wasn't well yesterday and Flora
wouldn't want to leave her for a whole evening.
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