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Lucille, after all, do you wonder that the police are looking for a woman in black with an ermine toque? What a mercy you wore a thick veil!" She sat down suddenly. "This is hideous," she said. "Think it over," he said, "step by step. It is wonderful how all the incidents dovetail into one another." "Too wonderful," she cried. "It sounds like some vile plot to incriminate me.
In that case she wondered to whom she would like to turn him over. There was her schoolmate and chum, Miss Hamlin. How lucky any man would be to get her, and Harry how would he feel about it? Then, like a cold draught in her brain came the recollection that Lucille and Harry had corresponded all the four years he was at college.
Lady Carey said, with a hard little laugh. "I care so much," Lucille echoed. Lady Carey shook out her amber satin skirt and sat down upon a low divan. She held up her hands, small white hands, ablaze with jewels, and looked at them for a moment thoughtfully. "He was very much in earnest when I saw him at Sherry's in New York," she remarked, "and he was altogether too clever for Mr.
He might have had the tact to go to another hotel. But, after all, I don't suppose it was the poor little fellow's fault. He does whatever his wife tells him to." "We all do that," said Archie the married man. Lucille eyed him fondly. "Isn't it a shame, precious, that all husbands haven't nice wives like me?"
He did none of these things but simply went on as usual, save in one respect. For the first time since the adder episode, he was really happy. If he were at this time a little mad the wonder is that he was still on the right side of the Lunatic Asylum gates. Mad or not, he was happy and the one thing wanting was the presence of Lucille at the fight.
Then she thought about the plans that Brandon had lost at their house in England. They had certainly been stolen, for she could not doubt what he had told her, but it was painful to admit that her father had taken them. She felt dejected and lonely, and while she struggled against the depression Lucille came to say that Jake was waiting below. "Tell him I am not at home," Clare replied.
And, curiously enough, she found that she was not lonely, did not miss New York, and it seemed to her that it was a rather shocking way to feel she did not in the least feel a "lack of woman's nursing, or dearth of woman's tears." She got along excellently without Lucille, Cousin Anna, and the girls in the office.
To Lucille, who knew her lover so well, it seemed that the sight and feel of the worshipped Sword of his Ancestors must bring him comfort, self-respect, memories, thoughts of the joint youth and happiness of himself and her.
God in Heaven he had faced the actual pangs of it once, and escaped he could not face it again he wasn't strong enough ... and the unhappy man sprang to his feet to rush from the room and saddle-up the camel for Life and Lucille and then his eye fell on the Sword, the Sword of his Fathers, brought to him by Lucille, who had said, "Have it with you always, Dearest.
"A second time I pressed the question to know if the contents were true, and he answered, 'Yes', and added that it was not his fault that he did not marry the lady. "'Then you love her still, Bernard? "'Yes, Lucille, but I love you also. "In anger and disappointed love I left him. Of course all plans for the marriage were cancelled at once.
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