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"It seems that to-night I must play the marionette to your pulling, Le Brusquet," I laughed as I made way for De Lorgnac; and for once the little man made no reply, but addressing Diane said: "The Queen has already returned, and you will find the salon full, mademoiselle; but before you go give me that hood; it might tell tales. I will see it safely returned."
They talked as lovers will to the end of time in exclamations and the meeting of eyes and little endearments. When Diane and Peter found them on the hilltop, Sheba protested, with her half-shy, half-audacious smile, that it could not be two hours since she and Gordon had left the living-room. Peter grinned. He remembered a hilltop consecrated to his own courtship of Diane.
"If you'd ever seen her, you would know how terrible, how impossible, such a situation is for her. She's the sort of woman who ought to have money who must have money. And so I thought if I came to you " "I'd give her some." "No," Diane said, quickly, with a renewed touch of indignation, "but that you'd help me to do it."
You bein' tired, an' sleppy, an' miser'ble, now mebbe that's jest wot's keppin' him back " Diane shook her head. She saw through his round-about subterfuge, and its kindliness touched her. "No, no, Joe," she said almost tenderly. "Not on your life. You would give me your last crust if you were starving.
I couldn't wait for the slow process of the mails. I cabled this morning to Grimston, one of my Paris partners, to wire me the cause of George Eveleth's death, as officially registered. This is his reply." He held up the envelope Diane had placed on the desk earlier in the evening. "Why don't you open it?" she asked, in a whisper of suspense. "I've been afraid to.
"Do take that ridiculous pipe out of your mouth and say something!" exclaimed Diane restlessly. "You look as if you were smoking a pumpkin! Besides, the supper's all packed up in hot stones and grass to keep it hot. Why moon so and shoot pebbles at the frogs?" "Well," said Philip abruptly, "do you mind if I say that your trip seems a most imprudent venture?"
He was Ronador's cousin, and his flight shifted the regency of the kingdom to Ronador's father." "Yes," said the girl steadily, "that is very clear." "Theodomir married and divorced your mother," said Philip gently. Diane grew very white. "And even yet," she said bravely, "I can not see why we must all be so worked up. There is more?" "Yes.
The oil-lamp seemed to attract his blind attention, and his eyes fixed themselves upon it; but for a moment only. Then they passed on until they settled on the girl. "Where is he?" he asked coldly. "I can hear you breathing. Is he dead?" Diane sprang up and bent over her patient. "No," she said, half fearing that her father's inquiry was prophetic. "He is unconscious from loss of blood. Arizona "
"I'm going first to Mr. Pruyn's, and afterward to Lakefield." "To Lakefield? Then I'll go with you. We could go in the car." Diane negatived both suggestions. The motor might break down, or the chauffeur might lose his way; the train would be safer. If any one went with her, it would have to be Mr. Pruyn.
What is the matter?" Jack explained briefly, in an appealing voice. "I'm awfully sorry for your sake, dear," he added. "We are down to our last twenty-franc piece, but in another fortnight " "Then you won't take me?" "How can I? Don't be unreasonable." "You promised, Jack. And see, I am all ready. I won't stay at home!" "Is it my fault, Diane? Can I help it that Von Whele has left Paris?"
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