Canada -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada -- Fiction
“Let me have your check, Jane, and I will go and get your trunk,” said
Larry.
“No, you come with me, Larry,” said Jane decidedly. “The trunk is too
big for you to handle. Mr. Wakeham, you will get it for me, won't you,
please? I will send a porter to help.”
“Gladly, Miss Brown. No, I mean with the deepest pain and regret,” said
Wakeham, going for the trunk while Larry accompanied her in quest of the
minor impedimenta that constituted her own and her father's baggage.
“Jane, have you any idea how glad I am to see you?” demanded Larry as
they passed into the car.
Jane's radiant smile transformed her face. “Yes, I think so,” she said
simply. “But we must hurry. Oh, here is Papa.”
Dr. Brown hailed Larry with acclaim. “This is very kind of you, my dear
boy; you have saved us a tedious wait.”
“We must hurry, Papa,” said Jane, cutting him short. “Mrs. Waring-Gaunt,
who has come for us in her car, has left her brother ill at home.” She
marshalled them promptly into the car and soon had them in line for the
motor, bearing the hand baggage and wraps, the porter following with
Jane's own bag. “Thank you, porter,” said Jane, giving him a smile that
reduced that functionary to the verge of grinning imbecility, and a tip
which he received with an air of absent-minded indifference. “Good-bye,
porter; you have made us very comfortable,” said Jane, shaking hands
with him.
“Thank you, Miss; it shuah is a pleasuah to wait on a young lady like
you, Miss. It shuah is, Miss. Ah wish you a prospec jounay, Miss, Ah
do.”
“I wonder what is keeping Mr. Wakeham,” said Jane. “I am very sorry to
keep you waiting, Mrs. Waring-Gaunt. Larry, would you mind?”
“Certainly not,” said Larry, hurrying off toward the baggage car. In a
few minutes Mr. Wakeham appeared with the doleful news that the trunk
was not in the car and must have been left behind.
“I am quite sure it is there,” said Jane, setting off herself for the
car, the crestfallen Mr. Wakeham and the porter following behind her.
At the door of the car the baggage man met her with regretful apologies.
“The trunk must have been left behind.”
He was brusquely informed by Jane that she had seen it put on board.
“Then it must have been put off by mistake at Calgary?” This suggestion
was brushed aside as unworthy of consideration. The trunk was here in
this car, she was sure. This the baggage man and Mr. Wakeham united
in declaring quite impossible. “We have turned the blasted car upside
down,” said the latter.
“Impossible?” exclaimed Jane, who had been exploring the dark recesses
of the car. “Why, here it is, I knew it was here.”
“Hurrah,” cried Larry, “we have got it anyway.”
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