2, and behind Karen's chair stood Lois
Dunlap. Clive Hammond and his new wife were again together in the
solarium. But there Dundee's restaging of the original scene in the
tragic drama ended. Everyone else, including Lydia Carr and Peter
Dunlap, were huddled together in a far corner of the living room.
"Now, Mr. Miles!" Dundee called. "Your cue! Never mind the comedy about
'How's tricks?' Simply go into the dining room, with Mrs. Dunlap, to mix
cocktails. You'll find all the ingredients still on the sideboard,
exactly as there were when Mrs. Selim sent you to mix drinks on May
24.... And Mrs. Miles, will you, pretending that you are Nita Selim, go
to powder your face at Mrs. Selim's dressing-table?"
Her face white and drawn, Flora Miles stumbled from the room, just as
her husband, dumb for once with rage, entered the dining room with Lois
Dunlap.
Dundee was about to follow the latter two when an interruption occurred.
Followed by a plainclothesman, a middle-aged man entered the living
room. Tall, broad-shouldered, determined, he strode to the bridge table,
his handsome head upflung, his brown eyes fixed upon the widened brown
eyes of Penny Crain.
* * * * *
"Dad!" the girl breathed; then, joyously: "Oh, Dad! You've come home!"
But Dundee halted the reconciliation with a stern word of command.
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