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"Listen to me," answered M. Lecoq, "if it is she, manage to make Jenny think that it was you who sent for her; we will seem to have come in by the merest chance." Mme. Charman responded by a gesture of assent. She was going towards the door when the detective detained her by the arm. "One word more.
"I dell you zis," he said, "not to aggustom your minds vid frivolity and lightness, but as a lesson in ze gonstruction of ze langwitch. If you can choke in Charman, you will be able also to gonverse in Charman." "Did the German what's-its-name print your joke?" inquired Coggs.
It had come to be understood that he made it a matter of principle to hide his light under a bushel, so he seldom had to take a new step in positive falsehood. Of course he regretted ceaselessly the original deceit, for Mrs. Charman, a wealthy woman, might very well have assisted him to some not undignified mode of earning his living.
Charman came in just in time to see Jenny leave the room with Goulard. "Lord, what's the matter?" she asked M. Lecoq. "Nothing, my dear Madame, nothing that concerns you in the least. And so, thank you and good-evening; we are in a great hurry." When M. Lecoq was in a hurry he walked fast.
His jewellery, even watch and chain, had long since gone: such gauds are not indispensable to a gentleman's outfit. He now congratulated himself on his prudence, for the meeting with Mrs. Charman had delighted as much as it embarrassed him, and the prospect of an evening in society made his heart glow.
Is it true, as some one told me, that you have been living abroad? So utterly was he disconcerted, that in a mechanical way he echoed the lady's last word: 'Abroad. 'But why didn't you write to us? pursued Mrs. Charman, leaving him no time to say more. 'How very unkind! Why did you go away without a word? My daughter says that we must have unconsciously offended you in some way. Do explain!
And she was not joking, either; for her purse was full of bank notes, and she paid me the whole of my bill. She's a good girl!" added Mme. Charman, as if profoundly convinced of the truth of her encomium. M. Lecoq exchanged a significant glance with the old justice; the same idea struck them both at the same moment.
Charman, our family solicitor, says that it is perfectly in order. The will was made in Paris two years before his death. He went over there on some financial business." "Was Benton with him?" asked Mr. Peters. "No. Benton went to New York about two months before." "H'm! And how soon after your father's return did he come home?" "I think it was about three months.
I always thought him to be on the verge of bankruptcy and that the Manor and the land might be sold up any day. When old Charman, the solicitor, read the will, I found that my father had a quarter of a million lying at the bank, and that he had left it all to me provided I married Louise!" "Well, why not marry her?" queried Brock lazily. "You're always so mysterious, my dear Hugh."
"A Charmans ein Teutscher." "A German ine Tycher is the place you come from, I s'pose?" "Nein ein Teutscher isht a Charman." "Oh, yes! I understand. How long have you been in Ameriky?" "Twelf moont's." "Why, that's most long enough to make you citizens. Where do you live?" "Nowhere; I lifs jest asht it happens soometimes here, ant soometimes dere." "Ay, ay!
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