The Boy With Wings Author:Berta Ruck General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI THE INVITATION At last six o'clock found her, released from the day's work and back at her Club. But still, still there was no envelope addressed to Miss Gwenna Williams stuck up in the criss-cross tapes of the green-baize-covered letter-board in the hall. She went upstairs rather slowly to take off her hat. On the landing the voice of Leslie Long called to her from the bathroom. " Come in here, Taffy. I'm washing blouses. I want to tell you some news." Gwenna entered the steamy bathroom, to- find her chum's tall figure bent in two over the bath and up to its bare elbows in suds of Lux. " I say, child, you know your locket that you lost at my sister's ? " announced Leslie. " It's all right. It's been found." " Has it? " said Gwenna, not very enthusiastically. " Did I leave it in Mrs. Smith's room ? " " You didn't. You left it in Hugo Swayne's car," said Leslie, wringing out the wet handful of transparent net that would presently serve her as a garment. " That young man came up about half an hour ago to tell you." " Mr. Swayne did ? How kind of him." " Yes, wasn't it ? But not of Mr. Swayne," saidLeslie, wringing. "It was -- just let out the water and turn me on some fresh hot, will you ? -- It was the other one that came; the aviator boy." " What? " cried Gwenna sharply. " Mr. Dampier? " " Yes. Your bird-man. He came up here -- in full plumage and song! Nice grey suit -- rather old; brown boots awfully well cleaned -- by himself; blue tie, very expensive Burlington Arcade one -- lifted from his cousin Hugo, I bet," enlarged Leslie, spreading the bl...« less