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Madame Patoff stood quite still, her face rigid and drawn, and an expression of horror in her eyes that was bad to see. But I was not alone in coming to Paul's assistance. As I put out my arm to help him to his feet, I saw Hermione's small hands lay hold of him with desperate strength, dragging him from the fatal brink. But Paul was unhurt, and was on his legs in another moment.
I know how very little science knows, and in due time I shall be quite ready to own myself mistaken, if your mother turns out to be perfectly sane." "You are very honest," returned Patoff. "All I want to express is that, although I am grateful to you for taking her home, I think she is quite able to take care of herself.
"I think Professor Cutter knows more already than he will tell you or me" She checked herself, and then continued in a lower voice: "It is prejudice, of course, but I do not like him. I positively cannot bear the sight of him." "I fancy he knows that you do not like him," I remarked. "Tell me, Miss Carvel, do you know anything of the reason why Madame Patoff became insane?
"To my house in Pera!" cried Balsamides to the patient coachman. "Pek tchabuk! As fast as you can drive!" "Evvét Effendim," replied the old soldier, and in another moment we were tearing along the road at breakneck speed. Hitherto Alexander Patoff had been too much surprised and overcome by his emotions to speak connectedly or to ask us any questions.
I never knew what led to the accident." Professor Cutter passed his heavy hand slowly over his thick gray hair, and looked pensively into the fire. "It was simple enough," he said at last. "I was paying our bill to the landlord, and in doing so I turned my back upon Madame Patoff for a moment. She was standing on a low balcony outside the window, and she must have thrown herself over.
"Pardon me," I said, when he had reached this stage. "I do not believe she tried to kill herself." "Why not?" asked Patoff, in some surprise. "I was the man with the rope. Cutter has never realized that you did not know it." Paul was very much astonished at the news, and looked at me as though hardly believing his senses. "Yes," I continued.
In truth, it was horrible enough. Paul and Cutter were very self-possessed, and their first care was to see that all the four ladies were safe. They had Hermione and her mother with them, and, taking the direction of the fountain, they found Chrysophrasia upon the bench where I had left her, in a violent fit of hysterics. Madame Patoff was not there.
"I think murders are so extremely interesting," said she to Patoff. "I always wonder what it must be like to commit one, don't you?" "No," said Paul, quietly. "I confess that I do not generally devote much thought to the matter. Murder is not a particularly pleasant subject for contemplation." "Oh, do you think so?" answered Chrysophrasia. "Of course not pleasant, no, but so very interesting.
"We are nearly the same height, and I am almost as thin as you." "If you would be so very kind as to send for a barber," suggested Patoff. "I have never been allowed one, for fear I should get hold of his razor and kill myself or somebody else." "I will go and send one," said I. "And I will rouse your brother and bring him back with me." "Stop!" cried Balsamides. "You cannot go like that!"
He was incomparably superior to Paul Patoff in powers of mind and in the art of concealment, he was equal to him in the unchanging determination of his will, but he was by far inferior to him in those external gifts which charm the world and command social success.
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