So
you will get accustomed to the conspiracy feeling before you are even
suspected of conspiring. You know, when one has once arrived at the
state of not feeling like a liar, one can lie with astonishing success.
Haven't you found it so?"
They laughed together over this as they went toward the house.
As they reached the porch, Betty Jo whispered a last word of
instruction: "You better find Judy, and fix her the first thing;--fix
her good and hard. Here is Auntie Sue now. Don't worry about her
noticing anything strange about you. I'll attend to her."
And the next minute, Betty Jo had the dear old lady in her arms.
CHAPTER XV.
A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
The weeks that followed the coming of Betty Jo to the little log house
by the river passed quickly for Brian Kent. Perhaps it was the peculiar
circumstances of their first meeting that made the man feel so strongly
that he had known her for many years, instead of for only those few
short weeks. That could easily have been the reason, because the
young woman had stepped so suddenly into his life at a very critical
time;--when his mental faculties were so confused by the turmoil and
suffering of his emotional self that the past was to him, at the moment,
far more real than the present.
And Betty Jo had not merely come into his life casually, as a
disinterested spectator; but, by the peculiar appeal of herself, she
had led Brian to take her so into his confidence that she had become
immediately a very real part of the experience through which he was then
passing, and thus was identified with his past experience out of which
the crisis of the moment had come.
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