CHAPTER XVI
ARCHIE ACCEPTS A SITUATION
LUCILLE moved her wrist slowly round, the better to examine the new bracelet.
"You really are an angel, angel!" she murmured.
"Like it?" said Archie complacently.
"Like it! Why, it's gorgeous! It must have cost a fortune."
"Oh, nothing to speak of. Just a few hard-earned pieces of eight. Just a few doubloons from the old oak chest."
"But I didn't know there were any doubloons in the old oak chest."
"Well, as a matter of fact," admitted Archie, "at one point in the proceedings there weren't But an aunt of mine in England—peace be on her head!—happened to send me a chunk of the necessary at what you might call the psychological moment."
"And you spent it all on a birthday present for me! Archie!" Lucille gazed at her husband adoringly. "Archie, do you know what I think?"
"What?"
"You're the perfect man!"
"No, really! What ho!"
"Yes," said Lucille firmly. "I've long suspected it, and now I know. I don't think there's anybody like you in the world."
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