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Nolan bent toward him.
"I've been watching for a girl," he said, "but I don't see her.
Last time I was here I came with Chris. She was his girl."
"Chris!"
"Yes. It stumped me, at first. She came and sat with us, not a
bad little thing, but - Good Lord, Clay, ignorant and not even
pretty! And Chris was fastidious, in a way. I don't understand it."
The ancient perplexity of a man over the sex selections of his
friends puckered his forehead.
"Damned if I understand it," he repeated.
A great wave of pity for Audrey Valentine surged in Clayton Spencer's
heart. She had known it, of course; that was why Chris had gone
away. How long had she known it? She was protecting Chris's name,
even now. For all her frivolity, there was something rather big in
Audrey. The way she had held up at her dinner, for instance - and
he rather fancied that the idea of his going into the army had come
from her, directly or indirectly. So Chris, from being a fugitive,
was already by way of being a hero to his friends.


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