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BAMBI kept to her room next day until it was time to meet the train on which Ardelia and the Professor were to arrive. It was due at four o’clock. She went to Jarvis’s door, but he was not in his room. She had heard nothing of him since his confession of the night before.
Her telephone bell startled her, and she took up the receiver to hear Jarvis’s voice.
“Bambi?”
“Yes.”
“How are you?”
“All right.”
“Don’t you want me to meet the Professor and Ardelia? There’s no need of your going up to Grand Central.”
“I’d rather go thank you, Jarvis. Where are you?”
“At the theatre.”
“Anything the matter?”
“Oh, no. I came to talk to the stage manager.
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