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"I think so," stammered Irene, who knew all these details, yet did not wish to confess it. "You think so," repeated Louison; "you haven't looked carefully at him?" "I I " stammered the countess, in confusion; "what do you look at me for?" A smile flitted across Louison's lips, but she kept silent, and Irene thanked God, as Madame Ursula now came in and softly said: "Irene, a word."
I hope I shall never see it again!" he growled, unmindful of the pitiless Fates ever spinning the mysterious web of Destiny. "I'll first show up at Berthe Louison's, at No. 9 Rue Berlioz. They shall have my next address given to them as Delhi. The real Major Hawke dives under the troubled sea of Life at Paris, only to emerge at Calcutta! Ram Lal is like all his kind, a coward at heart!
When the receipt for his registered letter was laid away in his pocket-book, Alan Hawke calmly ordered his carriage. "I'll take a brush around town and show them that I am out of all these intrigues," he decided. It was six hours later when he drew up at the Club, having passed Madame Berthe Louison's splendid turnout swinging down the Chandnee Chouk.
It had been the vicomte of whom Aube had been afraid, and with a light heart he left the apartment. "'Marquise, will you be so kind as to sing us a song?" asked Arthur, politely. Louison's modesty began to have a good influence on him, and he already regretted having assisted Talizac in his plan. Louison tuned her instrument and then began to sing a pretty little air.
He forgot the faded complexion, the worn face, the chemically tinted hair and haggard eyes of the broken-down Austrian blonde concert singer, in the exhilaration of Berthe Louison's departure.
With a veiled flattery of the old civilian's wisdom and experience, he referred to his desire to consult him as to a secret journey in the direction of the Pamirs. The opportune windfall of Anstruther's ecarte and Berthe Louison's liberal advance enabled Major Alan Hawke to maintain a dignified and easy port as he wandered through Allahabad.
Rolla and Talizac were now in front of the door which led to Louison's room. The vicomte looked inquiringly at his companion and said: "Open it." "One moment, we are not as far as that yet. Just look at the little one first." With these words Rolla opened a sliding window in the door and stepped back, while the vicomte bent down and looked into the partly lighted room.
Major Hawke brushed by her with a nod and quickly mounted the stair. To his utter surprise, on entering Madame Berthe Louison's apartment, the signs of an approaching departure were but too evident.
Mademoiselle Louison suddenly became an important personage at table, and the journalist began to show her marked attention. The many pretty instances of philanthropy, and Louison's swimming eyes, put the whole company into a quiet, tranquil, benevolent frame of mind, eminently in keeping with the weariness induced by the exertions of the feast.
Keep your mouth shut and you may find your provisional rank confirmed." To Berthe Louison's secret agents, the Grindlay Bank at Delhi, Major Hawke had delivered a sealed envelope. "Use this only at your sorest need. I will see Madame Louison probably before she has any orders for me, as to her private affairs."
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