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Chapter 27
Herbert Gotobed left England about a month later on his way to explain to the inquisitive police of Nashville, Te
And on the day that he sailed — although neither party knew of the other's activities — Erica had a di
"Are you drinking a toast?" Erica asked. "I'll give you one. To Robin's success in California!"
They drank it with a will.
"If you don't like the ranch," Erica said, "wait till I am twenty-one and I'll buy it from you."
"Would you like that sort of life?" His tone was eager.
"Of course I should." She turned to Grant, begi
"You'll have to come out and see it long before you're twenty-one," Robin persisted.
"Yes, that would be nice." She was sincere but inattentive. "Mr. Grant" (for some reason she never called him Inspector) "if I get those tickets from Mr. Mills myself will you come with me to the Circus at Christmas?"
She was very faintly pink, as if she had asked a forward thing. A phenomenon in Erica, who was forward by nature and never knew it.
"Of course I will," Grant said, "with the greatest pleasure."
"All right," she said. "That's a promise." She lifted her glass. "To Olympia, at Christmas!"
"To Olympia at Christmas!" Grant said.