"Ah, but this is my own earned money!" Dorothy protested, flushing and
smiling.
Suddenly there came a twinkle into Septimus Rainer's eye. "Well," he
said, "if you're ground down under the heel of a grasping employer,
you're ground down, and you must go to Arcachon. But I shall come,
too."
"Of course," said Tinker. "You're--you're one of the family."
"Thank you," said Septimus Rainer. "I'm told that you English are slow
about it. But when you make a man at home, you do make him at home.
And I've always wanted to be adopted."
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
TINKER DISOWNS HIS GRANDMOTHER
On the eve of their departure for Arcachon, Tinker and Elsie were
sitting in the gardens of the Temple of Fortune, taking a well-earned
rest after a farewell bolt into the Salles de Jeu, in which Elsie also
had played a gallant and successful part, for the somewhat obscure
reason that it was the last bolt: so strengthening to her character had
been companionship with Tinker. She was receiving, with modest pride,
his congratulations on having penetrated deeper than himself, to the
innermost shrine, the Trente et Quarante table, in fact, when they saw
coming towards them a large, majestic, white-haired lady, a small,
subdued, mouse-haired lady, and a man of doubtful appearance.
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