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"Quite so," rejoined Jennings dryly, "but she may have come back again. However, the main point is, that Maraquito in some way is working with Mrs. Octagon on this basis to prevent your marriage. In this way they have impressed Miss Saxon that you are guilty, and they have shown her this knife. This evidence she retained in order to save you and at the price of her marriage."
Only of late years did I recognize Maraquito when she came to me for assistance. Her father died and she had no money. I helped her to pay for her dancing " "Oh," said Jennings, recalling the false money, "you paid." "Have you anything to say on that point?" she asked haughtily. "No! No! I merely congratulate you on your generosity." "I could not allow my own niece to starve.
"Oh, she hates you sure enough. But are you not astonished by my news?" "Very much astonished," responded Caranby thoughtfully, "how came it that Selina died and Isabella lived?" "The three met in the unfinished house," explained Maraquito. "I had the story from Emilia myself. There was a quarrel. All three were in love with you.
I am sure she is a relative of Maraquito's." "If she is her aunt, I give you leave to call me a fool," said Caranby, rising. "I know that Emilia told me she had no sister. What will you do next, Jennings?" "I shall see this man who fired the house and try to get at the truth. Then I am having Mrs. Herne watched " "And Maraquito?"
"How I envy the man you leave it with." Maraquito looked down moodily. "He doesn't care for my heart." "What a stone he must be. Now I upon my word I feel inclined to marry and cut my nephew out of the title." "Your nephew," stammered Maraquito, with a flash of her big eyes. "You know him well, he tells me," chatted Caranby garrulously, "a handsome fellow is Cuthbert.
"Of course she would," said Hale weakly, "she hated Miss Saxon because she was engaged to Mallow, the fool. To get her caught, Maraquito jumped up into the sitting-room and rang the bell." "At eleven o'clock?" "Yes, I believe I believe " Hale's voice was getting weaker and weaker. "She did ring bell then closed floor. Servant came I I " he stopped and his head fell back.
Jennings related the episode of the photograph, and the incident of the same perfume being used by Mrs. Herne and Maraquito. Peggy nodded. "I don't see how the photograph connects her with the case," she said at length, "but the same perfume certainly is strange. All the same, the scent maybe fashionable. Hikui! Hikui! I never heard of it."
"It's too long a story to tell. But, first of all, tell me did Maraquito come here to-night?" "No. Are you after her?" "Yes, I know she isn't an invalid." "Ah, she diddled you there," said Hale with another chuckle, "a very clever woman is Maraquito. I wished to marry her, but now I'm done for. After all, I'm not sorry, since my pals are taken.
"Oh, the forgeries. What of them? It's nothing." Basil snapped his fingers. "Maraquito won't mind. But I suppose I'll have to give her up on account of that infernal check. Such a small one as it was too. I wish I had made it one hundred and fifty. I could have done so." In the face of this callous behavior it was sheer wrongdoing to spare the man.
"His price is that I am to marry Juliet." "So that he can marry Maraquito, I suppose. I know that she loves you and that Hale is crazy about her. It's very hard on me," whined the egotistical youth, "for I want to marry her myself, only mother put her spoke in my wheel." "Dare you offer yourself to Maraquito, bad as she is, knowing what you are?" cried Mallow, fairly disgusted.
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