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Do you feel as if the roof were moving?" she exclaimed, suddenly clutching hold. Bernadine fell down flat on her face with a dismal howl. "Let's be cats now," said Beth. "I'll say miew-ow-ow, and you oo-oo-owl-hiss-ss-ss." "Don't, Beth. I want to go back." "Come along then," said Beth. "I can't. I daren't move." "Oh, nonsense," said Beth; "just follow me. I shall go and leave you if you don't.
"Ah, my dear Baron, you amuse me, you and the elegant Sogrange Sogrange, who will pull the strings to which you must dance. Do you think that I did not see you both upon the platform, gazing suspiciously at me? Do you think that I did not hear the words of warning you received as clearly as though I had been standing by your side? 'It is Bernadine! Sogrange whispers.
His faint sense of suspicion had deepened into a positive foreboding. He had a reckless desire to stop the car, to descend upon the road, and let the secrets of Bernadine go where they would. Then his natural love of adventure blazed up once more. His moment of weakness had passed. The thrill was in his blood, his nerves were tightened.
"I'm afraid I've a little of your blood in me, after all. Life seems more stirring when Bernadine is on the scene." The shooting party broke up two days later and Peter and his wife returned at once to town. The former found the reports which were awaiting his arrival disappointing. Bernadine and his guest were not in London, or if they were they had carefully avoided all the usual haunts.
I may tell you at once that no sum that could be offered tempted either of these men." "I am delighted to hear it," de Grost replied, "but I must plead guilty to a little temporary anxiety as to their present whereabouts." "At this moment," Bernadine remarked, "they are within a few feet of us; but, as you are doubtless aware, access to your delightful river is obtainable from these premises.
He beckoned his companion to his side and, drawing an electric torch from his pocket, flashed the light into a dark corner behind an immense bin. The forms of a man and a youth bound with ropes and gagged, lay stretched upon the floor. De Grost sighed. "I am afraid," he said, "that Mr. Greening, at any rate, is most uncomfortable." Bernadine turned off the light.
I had her place laid at table, but she never even existed." Peter tore off his coat. "There are the others in the room!" he exclaimed. "We must go back." Sogrange caught him by the shoulder and pointed to a shadowy group some distance away. "We are all out but Bernadine," he said. "For him there is no hope. Quick!" They sprang back only just in time.
It is not honest conspiracy. Is it war, I ask you, to seek to poison the drinking water of an enemy, to send stalking into their midst some loathsome disease? Such things belong to the ages of barbarity. Bernadine has striven to revive them and Bernadine shall die." "It is justice," Peter admitted. "The question remains," Sogrange continued, "by whose hand yours or mine?" Peter started uneasily.
Peter muttered grimly, raising his glass to his lips. Bernadine accepted the challenge. "It is not I, alas! who may call myself Cæsar," he replied, "although it is certainly you who are about to die." Sogrange turned to the man who stood behind his chair. "If I might trouble you for a little dry toast?" he inquired. "A modern, but very uncomfortable, ailment," he added, with a sigh.
There was a loud tapping at the door. Bernadine threw an antimacassar half over the box, but he was too late. De Grost and Hagon had crossed the threshold. The woman stood like some dumb creature. Hagon, transfixed, stood with his eyes riveted upon Bernadine. His face was distorted with passion; he seemed like a man beside himself with fury.
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