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I had not been a week in town, had only danced once with my FIANCEE, when, one day, taking a tennis lesson from the great Barre, a forced ball grazed the frame of my racket, and broke a blood vessel in my eye. For five weeks I was shut up in a dark room. It was two more before I again met my charmer.
"I see," said Beale. "You come in here, I repeat, demanding with all the gesture and voice of melodrama, the hiding-place of my fiancée," he enunciated the two last words with great relish "you ask to search my rooms and I give you permission. You lock yourself in through your own carelessness and when I release you you have a revolver in your hand, and are even more melodramatic than ever.
If he had not dreaded making himself absurd, he would gladly have stood forth as the champion of the Sparks, the Wermants, and all the other members of the Blue Band, so that he might give vent to the anger raging in his heart on hearing that odious compliment to Jacqueline. Why was he not old enough to marry her? What right had that detestable Talbrun to take notice of any girl but his fiancee?
He had his fiancée almost in his arms, and yet the stream stopped him. Instantly Cornelia was in laughter. "Oh! My second Leander," she cried, "will you be brave, and swim again from Abydos to Sestos to meet your Hero?" "Better!" replied Drusus, now nettled; "see!" And though the leap was a long one he cleared it, and landed close by the marble nymph.
However, you mustn't mind, because, really, the poor fellow was perfectly mad." "What on earth was it?" asked the young officer, his eyes travelling from the bank-note to his fiancee. "Oh, it was harmless enough, and yet you will confess it was very queer.
He only hoped devoutly that no one in the line knew him ar Billy, and that no one quite knew what had happened. He did not wish to see himself and his fiancée the subject of inch-high headlines in some evening paper figuring as: "Talented young composer and her famous artist lover take poor girl's place in a twenty-five-cent ticket line." He shivered at the thought. "Are you cold?" worried Billy.
Young Tom Marshall, who honored Miss Minion's with his presence, studying the photograph on my bureau one evening, asked me who was "the beauty with the pugree." And when I replied with pride that she was my fiancée he slapped my back in congratulation.
One cannot find it by seeking it; it comes to us when we do not expect it. This project of marriage, conceived in cold blood, which Père Maurice laid before him, the unknown fiancée, and, perhaps, even all the good things that were said of her common-sense and her virtue, gave him food for thought.
But I have not seen her since the death of your fiancée. I have no idea where she is now." "I thought and Mrs. Cairns thought that she would come to you in her distress, or at least communicate her whereabouts." "She has done neither, and I do not know where to address a letter." "What is to be done?" said Giles half to himself and much distressed.
Jean you do not say so?" "But assuredly I say so; nor is that all, Monsieur. On board this yacht was a young and beautiful lady of great wealth and beauty, as well the fiancée, so it is said, of this gentleman who owns the yacht. What is the action of these pirates in regard to this beautiful young lady and her aunt, who also is upon the yacht for the cruise? Do they place these ladies ashore?
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