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He let her run on as gaily as she might but steadily, relentlessly he swung the conversation round to her last engagement at the Palaceum. He wanted to see if she would make any reference to the murder at Seven Kings. If he could only bring in old Mackwayte's name, he knew that the dancer must allude to the tragedy. Then the unexpected happened. The girl introduced the old comedian's name herself.
"How on earth did you know that I was at the Palaceum last night?" The Chief smiled grimly. "Oh, that's very simple," he said. "Shall I tell you some more about yourself? You sat..." he glanced down at the desk in front of him,"... in Stall E 52 and, after Nur-el-Din's turn, Strangwise took you round and introduced you to the lady. In her dressing-room you met Mr. Mackwayte and his daughter.
"There was a bit of a row between her and the stage manager last night about her keeping the stage waiting again," he said; "and after lunch today she rang up to say she would not appear at the Palaceum to-night or any more at all! It's very upsetting for us; and I don't mind telling you, gentlemen, that I've been to my solicitors about it..."
"When the war broke out in August, 1914, Madame, after finishing her summer season in Brussels, was resting in her Brussels mansion. What becomes of her? She vanishes." "She told Samuel, the fellow who runs the Palaceum, that she escaped from Brussels!" interposed the Chief. The Frenchman threw his hands above his head. "Escaped, escaped? Ah, oui, par exemple, in a German Staff car.
Ah, Major Okewood!" Nur-el-Din sank into a bergere chair beside her great mirror. "There are too many in this room," she cried, "there is no air! Lazarro, Ramiro, all of you, go outside, my friends!" As Madame's entourage surged out, Strangwise said: "I hear you are leaving the Palaceum, Marcelle!" He spoke so low that Mr. Mackwayte and Barbara, who were talking to Desmond, did not hear.
He stopped a moment, then added abruptly: "We'll go along to the Palaceum to-night, if you like, Desmond," and Desmond joyfully acquiesced. To one who has been living for weeks in an ill-ventilated pill-box on the Passchendaele Ridge, the lights and music and color of a music-hall seem as a foretaste of Paradise.
I want to be amused, mark you, not elevated!" "Nur-el-Din at the Palaceum," replied the reporter. "By Jove, we'll go there," said Desmond, turning to Maurice. "Have you ever seen her? I'm told she's perfectly marvelous..." "It's an extraordinarily artistic turn," said Spencer, "and they're doing wonderful business at the Palaceum.
But the encounter frightened me, and I resolved to break my contract with the Palaceum and bury myself down here in the country. "But somehow Mortimer learnt of my intention. The next night it was the night of the murder he came to the theatre and warned me against trying to elude his vigilance by flight. I have never forgotten his words.
"The Palaceum want me to deputize for Hickie and Flanagan, my dear," he said a little tremulously' "9.40... the second house... it's... it's very unexpected!" Barbara ran up and throwing her arms about his neck, kissed him. "How splendid!" she exclaimed, "the Palaceum, daddy! You've never had an engagement like this before... the biggest hall in London...!! "Only for a night, my dear" said Mr.
Her father's eyes were shining with his little success of the evening: on the way upstairs Fletcher had held out hopes to him of a long engagement at the Palaceum while as for the other, he was radiant with the excitement of his first night in town after long months of campaigning. He was thinking that his leave had started most propitiously.
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