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vet
sometimes
when
he
was
at
the
!
the
present
occupant
of
that
of
other
end
of
the
room,
talking
lnifice
that
a
wife
Is
almost
a
neces-
a
low
tone
to
Desslter,
she
would
fancy
mat
he
was
watching
her.
and,
looking
up,
would
find
that
country
wumn
a
week.
Desslter
lit
the
inevitable
Miss
Brown
had
been
busy
among
the
files
in
the
safe.
She
prpducedrO.
little
pile
of
documents
typea
a
heat
tabulation
for
the
sity.
It
would
be
impossible
for
me
to
live
with
an
ordinary
wo
man.
Yours
is
the
type
which
ap-
without
any
sort
of
expression,
i
Pea
to
me.
I
repeat
my
offer.
his
eyes
were
fixed
upon
her.
Mlas
Brown
rote
to
her
feefjj
once
wnen
he
was
confiding
to
one
loosed
appeaungiy
across
tne
Desslter
an
event
of
great
lm
portance,
he
lowered
his
voice,
Desslter,
glancing
up,
followed
the
direction
of
his
eyes.
"My
'
secretary
is
deaf
and
dumb."
he
observed.
Marabels
continued
in
his
usual
tone.
"I
have
appointment
with
Abel
Deane
tonight,
Desslter.
I
want
all
your
Intimate
reports
of
Malakoff.
Bretskopf
and
Krasset."
"They're
pretty
reading,"
Desslter
observed,
as
he
crossed
the
room
toward
Miss
Brown's
desx.
"If
Abel
Deane
is
the
man
I
think
be
is."
Marabels
said,
"hell
agree
to
laving
them
out
of
the-
room
toward
Desslter,
but
his
face
was
averted.
I
am
to
take
it
then
that
you
are
serious?"
she
asked
I
'am
not
a
man,
he
answered,
"who
wastes
or
needs
to
repeat
his
words.
However,
the
occasion
Is
perhaps
unusual,
although
I
had
hoped
that
you
would
have
been
able
to
answer
"All
three
of
which
I
must
respectfully
decline."
There
was
a
moment's
silence.
To.
all
aDDearances
Miss
Brown
was,.now
quite
calm.
She
glanced
at
the
clock,
put
tne
cover
on
ncr
typewriter
and,
moving
across
the
room,
iook
aown
ner
coat
ana
hat;.
"There
Is
nothing
more
I
can
HT-Cokmer-Dessltershe
asked;
"Nothing,
thank
you,"
he
replied.'
lookine
at
her
curiously.
"I
will
not
Insult
my
estimate
,of
your
character.
Marabels
said
f
"by
asking
If
your
decision
Is
final.
You
wm
permit
me
to
say,
now-
;ever,
that
I
regret
It."
'
"I
am
very
sorry,"
Miss
Brown
rejoined,
"wood
night.
And
good
night,
Colonel
Desslter."
"Good
night.
Miss
Brown.
She
closed
the
door:
behind
her
and
.
went
down
the
steps
toward
,
In
his
pocket.
He
glahcT?d
at
Die
the
elcvator
wlth
trembling
knew
?.t
i.,'
..
uj
Outside
In
the
street
Into
which
.
TZ
.
i
m
in
u
i..
he
still
have
five
Macpherepn
intervened
for
the
I
minutes,
passed
wlth
unseeing
eyea
she
first
time
in
the
debate.
!rked
I'pessitor
.with
t
your
iIoib
ofbSlng
tanp"d
i
airv
in
cuun
mwnivcuirin
p.miiau"u,
"uum
iiohtlv
UDon
the
arm
She
hesl-
with
our
friend
Bretskopf,"
he
an-
dress
a
word
or
two
to
your
sec-
taiodT
to
find
Paul
looking
down
nouocea
coiuur.
:
"".
"You
know
your
own
business
best.
I
sunnose,"
Malakoff
remarked
sulkily.
Abel
Dean
rose
to
his
feet.
"The
meeting
Is
over."
he
announced.
"You
anil
I.
Macpher-
son,
arc
for
Downing
Street.
Twlifx.
f
u,
.
.
into
her
face
with
his
usual
boy-
J
Dessiter
looked
at
him
In
sur-
i-v,
in,n.
mn,,,
,,,,,
,,,i
1
"You
forgive
that
I
am
here
to
LJZ
J
SSS;
raect
you?"
he
asked
eagerly.
v
tn
w
"You
can
speak
to
her
whenever,
..Qf
colirBe
1Iftve
blen
wait-
jOU
UKt.
l.)nff9"
,J&.
Ji!1
'"ni
"Barely
half
an
hour.
I
came
I
wimu.
wi
uuu
cjfco
t-ijt
hnennafl
I.PF"
?tnAn
f
su"3rl8
"Do
you
mind
not
trlline
me
QUEER
PROPOSAL
IZZLSTL
.??J!S:
B;
Just
now."
she
interrupted,
"but
The
davs
that
followed
were
thSSJ?'
"SSL
"vo
"eMrer
ana
walk
with
me
until
I
speak,
and
most
exciting
that
Miss
Brown
had
j
'Miss
Brown
"
he'
said
I
have
no"im?-
lit
J
.
ever
known.
She
took
to
com
In?
I
U
.
.11..
.
In
r,ti.uv
,c,
Ul
jrivu
to
Whitehall
an
hour
earlier
WOI
,
MK
mornmg
ana
leaymg
wer
v
His
tone
was
absolute!
matter
ntaht.
but
whenever
she
carte
and
.
.
un
of
fMt
wfls
no
,n
hh.
wh?nrver
she
left
there
wm
an
U.
any
sort
,.
of
.ntv...ra
enthusiasm
jncreaswB
quanuty
ui
wuiis,
w
even
a
gcp
of
fepiin,.
9
'
one.
am
kA
no
niitmiiA
ouwiae
neiP
nam
w
hmb
Tei
pus-
..j
am
vcry
glad
to
hear
you
My
turned
over
narjers
and
nrodueed
,
in
cheeks.
from
its
pronerly
Indexed
pace
"I
don't
understand
you."
,afee
the
report
of
the
particulars
he
de-
faltered.
sired.
Always
he
remained
with
"Then
for
the
first
time
I
-am
the
expression
of
a
sphinx,
scarce-1
disappointed
in
you.
Miss
Brown,"
ly
evet
apeaking,
which
matched
Marabels
went
on.
"My
words
.were
c
miss
urown
s
own
reserve.
pium
rauugn.
nave
never
uwugni
At
such
times
their
eves
never
I
of
marriage,
but
I
shall
be
PrimJ
met.
He
searceiv
ever
even
aa-
uviuusurr
wmun
a
jew
momns
anai
irr
a
sincle
anxious
downward
'frlaiee
Miss
Brown
was
wholly
unable
to
ftTount
for
the
curious
-motion
wnrh
Dosnessfl
her.
Her
knee
were
still
trmbllntc;
she
war,
conscious
that
the
tears
were
The
sublect
matter
of
some
of
JSK
,
?S!
L?;
hnlrnt
agltetlon
which
she
fall-
Uic-
reports
and
correspondence
rZ.
thc
Sni
i
tine
in
thecd-nttoly
undcratand-wlrti
wblch
she
hsn!
to
deal
wm
aualntonce
he
had
ev?
addressed
addressed!
Marabels.
as
a
magnificent
with
scarcely
an
exception
Inlt-
a
"remark
to
her
!
marine,
a
sort
of
mechanical
ialed
and
marked
"for
Mtes
Brown
nvk"
Marabris
T
continued
"P0111
!
had
always
had
the
only."
She
moved
her
dek
and
P0
rotn!ind
admiration.
He
ex-typewriter
..ricthod
ororHne
are
aU
In-
and
intrenched
herself
dS0n,-
of
the
Vf'e
behind
lriUt'd
for
her
a'
"methlng
entlre-In
a
dhtant
corner
of
the
room
dan
therefore
that
I
admire
y
,,t!ride
thw5
n'e"Jt's
r-from
which
place,
she
sometimes
Z
S
nZn
I
ZuS
rcnal
u,e-
why
f,hould
80
the
f"r
ur
f
b'
hl
amaang
deolara-few
watched
with
unseeing
ev
undcretand
that
t:M,ccte(l
favored
caljers
whom
Desslter
aSyJ!
KKclad
i'!"
at"rth'rr
admitted
Into
his
stronghold.
)f
voll
LaA
k
mv
wifp"
;
afterward
a
mystery
to
her.
Lac-
Marabels
was
there
at
lea?t
ZJ?
vl
nnv
ordlmry
explanation,
three
or
four
times
during
the
r
r
aroPPeg
fj18
cigarette
rh
defidod
as
they
nared
Nor-day.
always
with
an
uncanny
gift
rr80t
to
Plck
!t,
UP-
Mls;
thumbcrland
Avenue,
that
it
was
of
selecting
the
Information
nejrons
eyes
grew
larger
and
'because
no
man
before
had
ever
dentred
with
lightnlng-lifce
pre-1
"W.
her
demure
Uttle
mouth
iasred
her
to
marry
him.
dslon
from
a
mass
of
material.
iwa
Pen-
.
expression
was:
i
am
recovered"
she
announc-Ofterr
he
stood
by
Miss
Brown'n
'
"c..
bewildered
surprise
Im-icd
suddenly,
side
while
with
awlft
fingers
she
edia1y
afu?"vai:d
came
a
UtUe;
"Nothing
has
happened.
I
trust,
mtil
ot
color
hcr
to
upset
you?"
,
"KoUjing
that
should
have
upset
me.
It
was
simply
an
over-Trtretaitng
surprise.-
Now
.
tell
me
why
you
came
to
meet
me."
"Can
van
t
i
you
jtuu
guaer
guess?"
he
asked.
I
n
ipsUmePht
dressed
a
direct
remark
to
her.'
It
has
been
suggested
to
me
byimltted
Miss
Frances
Why
I
believe
It
Is,"
she
ad-
'DLffn
siA
Ik
f
m
TlrMim
Via
ntAn
f
vn-uov,
tum
uiunu
tic
w
Cilb
UU,
"will:
you
tome
to
dinner
tonight
and
bring
her."
"Of
course
I
will,"
she
assented
promptly.
"I
know
Frances
would
,
be
Jerribly,
disappointed
if
we
clubs,
though.
Mr.
Paul."
r
'JThai'lls
a
promise.
I
knew
jPflMny
nf
what
was
likely
to
hap-
pcu
uiui,
uigui,
ui
cuurb.
i
am
very,
very
sorry.
It
may
be,
Uftaigh.
for
the
best.
You
have
heard
the
rumors
tonight?"
"I
hear
nothing
but
rumors
and
a
lew
tacts
all
day
long,
Miss
Brown
declared.
"There's
a
late
edition
lust
out
!
which
announces
seml-of
flclally
me
one
way
or
the
other
without
I
that
the
government
has
refused
hesitation."
I
Abel
Deane's
condition
that
one
of
"I
will
try
to
do
so
then."
Miss
these
foreigners
should
be
allowed
Brown
acquiesced.
"I
thank
you
a
place
upon
the
commission.
If
very
much,
but
I
do
not
wish
to
i
It
Is
the
truth,
there
will
be
a
marry
you."
;
crista.
Abel
Deane
will
have
to
Marabels
considered
for
a
moment.
"Is
there
anything
more
I
should
nave
said
any
information
you
choose
between
alienating
his
foreign
supporters
and
seeing
the
whole
scheme
crumble
away.
you
wm
lorgive
mev
but
I
do
desire?
From
my
observation
of
'
not
discuss
these
matters,"
Miss
you
I
had
gathered
that
such
i
Brown
reminded
him
in
her
best
would
be
unnecessary.
I
offer
you
official
manner.
an
assured
nosltion.
a.
cnmfnrtsbW
"Ynu
are
nnltp
rlcrht
nnt
ta
'
oufeide.
fend
secured
them
with
a
home
and
all
the
attentions
of
a
Paul
assented.
"You
must
excuse
rubber
bnd.
Marabels
placed
them
husband.
me
that
I
am
very,
very
interested.
SANTA
CLAUS
WELCOMED
ON
SHIP
v.
SCORES
of
happy
youngsters
received
a
surprise
visit
from
Santa
Claus
on
Saturday
night
on
the
'
Anotmr-TVtnolrlcAn
l!nu
AV.ani
.1
-i
f
.
t
r
n
I..
I
I
Carbed
In
the
traditional
manner,
Santa
dispensed
gifts
to
all
the
boys
and
girls,
travelling
in
the
big
bij
before
vanishing
as
mysteriously
as
he
came.
Those
three
men
who
have
brought
their
millions
over
here
bring
nothing
of
the
spirit
of
Russia.
There
is
nothing
Russian
about
them
except
tneir
Dinn.
Their
discomfiture
here
would
be
a
iov
to
us
because
any
blew
to
the
Russia
of
today
helps
us
forward
toward
the
Russia
of
to-1
morrow."
I
"It
is
quite
natural."
Miss
Brown
conceded
gravely,
"that
you
should
be
Interested
in
anything
which1
has
to
do
with
your
country.
You.
chall
now
tell
me,
if
you
please,!
what
you
are
going
to
offer
us;
for
dinner?"
j
He
laughed
heartily.
I
"Forgive
me
that
I
am
so
garrulous,"
he
begged.
"There
will
be
a
clear
soup-
not
so
bad.
There
!
will
bp
at
least
the
cheese
with
it
to
remind
you
that
if
we
could,
have
afforded
It
it
would
have
been
petitn
mArmlte.
And
then,
there
Is
some
veal.
It
is
very
goodj
veal.
My
lather
usually
grumbles,
i
hut
he
has
dined
oif
It
already
and
he
says
that
it
is
good
veal."!
"Then
there
is
a
compot
of!
fruit,"
Miss
Brown
ventured,
with
a
barely
repressed
smile.
"How
did
you
guess?
he
demanded.
"Bananas
and
oranges
and
thin
slices
of
apples."
wonderiui!
uut
you
see,'
he
went
on
apologetically,
"fruit
is
a
very
difficult
matter,
f
or
twopence
extra
you
can
have
a
small
lug
of
cream.
There
is
no
profit
on
that,
I
cp.n
assure
you,
and
It
!
makes
a
difference."
j
It
sounds
a
moot
delirious
din-
j
ner,"
Miss
Brown
declared.
:.nri
T
am
getnn:;
hungry
talkinp,
about
It.
Ill
farh
Frances
:nU
m
rw
rcly
on
seeing
us
In
trree-quarters
of
an
hour.
But
before
you
go,
Mr
Paul
I
am
going
to
take
a
tax'
from
here-1
have
a
question
to
j
ask
you."
j
They
passed
under
a
gas
lamp,
i
and
Miss
Brown
drew
from
tho
posket
of
her
coat
a
page
from
one
of
the
morning
Illustrated
papers.
"Tell
mc.
Mr.
Paul,
is
that
you
and
your
father?"
She
pointed
to
a
picture
in
the
centre
page.
It
was
a
snapshot
of
Paul's
father
In
full
uniform,
with
a
long
line
of
medals
and
decorations
across
his
chest,
and
by
his
side
Paul,
In
the
white
uniform
of
the
Russian
bodyguard,
also
with
medals
and
decorations.
underneath
was
a
brief
line:
Two
of
our
Russian
guests
leaving
Buckingham
Palace
after
the
Levee
this
afternoon
General
Prince
Serge
Alexis
of
Norgadla,
a
connection
of
the
late
Czar,
and
his
only
son,
Prtnce
Paul
of
Norgadla.
Paul
flushed
a
little
as
he
glanced
at
the
paper.
I
am
very
sorry
that
tne
photo
graphers
were
too
quick
for
us,"
he
said.
"Please
do
not
tell
Frances..
Please
forget
it
yourself
if
you
can.
We
go
once
a
year
to
humor
my
father.
He
thinks
it
is
duts
we
owe
the
family,
we
change
at
a
friend's
house
near,
and
up
till
now
we
have
escaped
discovery.
It
was
most
unfortu
nate."
"Let
me
take
you
a
little
way."
Miss
Brown
begged,
wun
her
foot
on
the
step
of
the
taxi.
But
Paul,
with
his
shabby
bow
ler
hat
in
his
hand
and
his
over
coat
flapping
about
him,
had
al
ready
disappeared
into
the
misty
twmgnt.
tTances
naa
removed
ner
out
door
clothes
and
was
lounging
In
her
dressing
gown,
not
as
usual
upon
the
bed,
but
in
the
one
easy
chair.
An
unopened
evening
paper
my
Dy
ner
side
ana
an
umigniea
cigarette
drooped
irom
ner
lips.
''Hurry
up,"
Miss
Brown
enjoin
cd,
as
he
took
off
her
coat.
"We
are
going
to
dine
with
Mr.
Paul
He
knew
you
were
going
to
be
up
and
he
came,
all
the
way
to
White-
nan
and
waited
half
an
hour
out
side
to
get
me
to
promise."
Frances'
face
softened
for
a
moment,
and
then
she
indulged
in
a
little
grimace.
"Oh,
I
don't
know,"
she
exclaimed
discontentedly.
"What's
the
use?"
"You
don't
know?"
her
friend
repeated.
"Why,
I
thought
you
liked
Mr.
Paul."
Frr.nces,
llo
curled
for
a
mo
ment,
the
light
shone
out
of
her
eyes.
"Of
course,
I
like
Paul,"
she
relocated.
"Any
fool
would.
He's
one
of
the
dearest
beings
alive.
He
makes
any
of
the
other
men
one
meets
seem
absolutely
impossible,
bu
don't
you
see,
Edith,
what's
lh
good
of
it
all?
That
poor
boy,
arrying
the
restaurant
upon
his
i
aek.
suoportlng
his
mother,
fath-
r
and
sister,
and
only
doing
it
by
sheer
slavery!
What's
the
good
c
adoring
him?
What
place
Is
here
for
me
or
for
you
or
for
any
o.
u.-.
in
his
lift,
except
lust
a
lew
moments
of
pleasant
friendship?
And
then
look
here!"
She
flung
the
same
Illustrated
;upr.
which
Miss
Brown
had
seen
p
n
the
table.
A
Prince!"
she
scoffed.
"A
preitv
princess
I
should
make.
ouidn-t
I,
trying
to
live
on
what
"as
left
over
after
Pa-tl
nad
fed
the
family.
Poor
boy,"
she
went
on.
T'd
do
anything
in
the
world
to
:;
him.
give
him
anything
In
the
world
he
asked
for,
but
it
wouldn't
help
either
of
us.
You're
'a
H'Mc
fool.
Edith,
to
keen
on
o'h'
-.ing
me
about
him.
He's
a
great
dal
more
dangerous
to
rtffcj
!ban
all
the
ram
k
lands
in
tne
world
ever
were.
You
don't
know!
how
near
I
was
last
time
I
saw
him
to
throwing
my
arms
round
-
neck
and
telling
him
what
a
e
ar
I
thought
him,
and
asking
v
heiher
there
wasn't
any
way
I
could
make
him
a
little
happier."
Mts
Brown
went
over
and
pas-leed
her
arms
round
Frances'
'
'!iouWcrs.
There
was
sympathy
In
her
tone,
grave
though
it
was.
"And
even
then,
dear,"
she
whispered,
"it
wouldn't
have
been
dangerous
at
all.
Paul
would
have
taken
vou
Into
his
great
arms,
ho
would
have
thought
that
it
was
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1
done."
Frances
sighed.
'That's
the
cruel
part
of
things.
Life's
beastly,
anyway.
I've
played
the
game
up
to
my
twenty-seventh
year,
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they
had
felt
like
that."
Miss
the
onh
tw
,
m
girk
to
be
frank,
and
he
would
Brown
declared,
"you
would
never
I
about
who
hi.
have
led
you
to
his
mother
and
I
have
known
it.
Thev
are
of
the
havr
anvihn
r
ather
und
Introduced
vou
vith
a
Ittle
set
speech
as
his
fiancee
."
"And
they
would
have
erooned."
Frances
murmured,
with
a
wulle,
half
humorous,
half
pitiful,
"and
thought
to
themselves
'another
one
to
feedir
worm
wno
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now
u
mae
suca'
noci
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;
things."
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