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At Villeneuve, where we stopped to bait the horses, we were diverted by a scene characteristic of the country. A bag had just been found on the road by the conductor of the Cette diligence, which drove up to the inn while we were there; and on Durand disowning it, a shabby-looking foot passenger claimed it, but could not establish his plea by identifying a single article.
"Are you a fairy, madame?" "Much more like a witch," she said, with gayety. "You young men, at least, think every old, toothless gray-haired crone like me ready for the stake, you know." "Not when they make such steaks," said Dr. Durand, attacking the dish, with its savory surroundings, before him. "Ah! you make calembourgs, my good doctor. What do you call them, Favraud?
Durand guilty, and so do many others, I fear, in spite of his long record for honesty and uprightness. And why? Because you will not admit the possibility of another person's guilt, a person standing so high in private and public estimation that the very idea seems preposterous and little short of insulting to the country of which he is an acknowledged ornament." "My dear!"
To be necessary to some one, as a nurse is to a patient, seemed to me an enviable fate till I came under the influence of Anson Durand. Then the craving of all women for the common lot of their sex became my craving also; a craving, however, to which I failed at first to yield, for I felt that it was unshared, and thus a token of weakness.
"I hope I have not frightened you," he went on, approaching me with a gentlemanly air. "A little matter has come up concerning which I mean to be perfectly frank with you. It may prove to be of trivial importance; if so, you will pardon my disturbing you. Mr. Durand you know him?" "I am engaged to him," I declared before poor uncle could raise his hand. "You are engaged to him.
"Perhaps, however, it might be as well to propitiate the foreign soldiers. Let us leave something for them," said worthy Monsieur Durand to Madame Durand, his wife; "they will be hungry when they get here, and if they find something ready for them they will be grateful and do no damage."
"I feel " here he again came to a pause "that you should know " "What?" I managed to ask. "That I do not like Mr. Durand and that others do not like him." "Is it because of something you knew about him before to-night?" He made no answer. "Or because he was seen, like many other gentlemen, talking with that woman some time before a long time before she was attacked for her diamond and murdered?"
The tribesmen were now thoroughly disheartened, and on the 21st began to sue for peace. The situation was, however, complicated by the proximity of the Afghan frontier. The western side of the Mamund Valley is bounded by the mountains of the Hindu Raj range, along the summits of which is the Durand line of demarcation with the Amir.
Durand describes, and he found himself burdened with a dastardly crime and with nothing to show for it.
As Filmore Durand went with the Marchesa towards the entrance hall, followed by the young people, he called his man to open the outer door, but almost at the same moment he heard his voice at the telephone; the servant was a Swiss who spoke German, English, and Italian, and had followed the artist for many years. He was evidently answering an inquiry about the Marchesa just as he heard her step.