Then Chapin added, helplessly: "But Culver is engaged to my
sister Jean!"
"Jean!" Mrs. Keap exposed her tragic face. "Then--he deceived
_me_! Oh-h! What wretches men are!" The widow commenced to
sob.
Outside came Miss Chapin's voice: "So here you are, Mr.
Covington!" And the next moment she reappeared, dragging the
crippled champion behind her. Thrusting him toward Roberta, she
pouted: "There, Mrs. Keap! I give him back to you."
"Perhaps you'd better go on with your explanations," Chapin
suggested, coldly, to Speed.
"How can I when you won't listen to me? Hear ye! Hear ye! Culver
was engaged to marry Mrs. Keap, but she discovered what a
reprobate he is--"
There was indistinguishable dissent of some sort from Mr.
Covington.
"--and she learned to detest him!"
Mrs. Keap likewise dissented in accents muffled.
"Well, she would have learned to detest him in a short time,
because she's in love with Jack Chapin; so she came to old Doctor
Speed in her troubles, and he promised to fix it all up. Now I
guess you four can do the rest of the explaining.
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