He stood for a moment, hesitating.
But a door separated him, he believed, from Mr. Lee. He was almost ready
to push open that door and confront Lee and demand an explanation of the
letter forbidding him to see Winnie again. But he got the better of
himself, and walked out of the office.
"If he thinks he can bluff me out, or freeze me out, he don't know me!"
he grated, as he turned away. "I shall see Winnie as often as I can.
Hanged if I don't go up there right now!"
With the Kansan, to think was to act. And in a few minutes he was in
another car speeding toward the home of the Lees.
"If I don't get to see her, perhaps I can find out something about this
mess from Inza or Elsie. They may be able to clear away the mystery. I
allow I never was in so horrible a snarl in my life. But I'll punch
Pike's head for this, and don't you forget it! That's whatever!"
But the Westerner met quite as chilling a reception at Lee's home as at
the office. The servant who met him at the door had received her
instructions.
"You are not to be admitted to the house," she said sharply.
"Is Miss Lee in?" he persisted.
"No."
"Is that true, or is it one of the society lies which declares that a
lady is out when she is in?" he bluntly demanded.
To this there was no answer.
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