26/36 We dine--we eat," and he dashed out of the room as rapidly as he had entered it. He scribbled a note to Peggy, stating that he had to go away on business, and left the Academy. He felt that it would be impossible to sit down and talk of trivial things--as he would have to do in the presence of Le Beau--when he had made such a discovery. The case was beginning to take shape. |