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FIRST AMONG EQUALS
would be wise for you to go home and change your dress if
You are still
planning to go out to dinner."
"Of course, Dr. Drummond," said Simon, checking the name
on the little
lapel badge. "I'll see she's taken care of."
Simon thanked the doctor and then helped Lavinia to the
car before driving
her back to Chelsea Square. Lavinia didn't stop
whimpering all the way
home, and she didn't notice that Simon hardly spoke.
Lady MaxwellHarrington
put her daughter to bed as soon as Simon had told her
what had happened.
When mother and daughter disappeared upstairs, Simon
returned to Beaufort
Street. He removed the little box from his blood-stained
dinner jacket and
placed it by the side of his bed. He opened it and
studied the sapphirc set
in a circle of small diamonds. He was now certain of the
hand he wanted to
see wear the ring.
The next morning Simon telephoned to find that Lavinia
was fully recovered,
but Daddy had thought it might. be wise for her to spend
the rest of the
day in bed. Simon concurred and promised to drop in to
see her sometime
during the evening.
Once Simon had reached his office in the Commons he
phoned St. George's
Hospital, and they told him that Dr. Drummond would be
off duty until later
that afternoon. It didn't take the skill of Sherlock
Holmes to find Dr. E.
Drummond's telephone number in the London directory.
"It's Simon Kerslake," he said when Dr, Drummond
answered the phone. "I
wanted to thank you for the trouble you took over
Lavinia last night."
"It was no trouble, no trouble at all-in fact it was the