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Its destination was gall and wormwood both to Carmen and her husband. For it fell into the hands of Murad Ault. He coveted it as the most striking symbol of the position he had conquered in the metropolis. Its semi-barbaric splendor appealed also to his passion for display.
What is meant is simply that Murad Ault was fighting for position, and that for some reason, known to himself, Thomas Mavick stood in his way. Mr. Mavick had never been under the necessity of making such a contest. He stepped into a commanding position as the manager if not the owner of the great fortune of Rodney Henderson.
When Ault told his wife what he had done, that sweet, domestic, and sensible woman was very far from being elated. "I am almost sorry," she said. "Sorry for what?" asked Mr. Ault, gently, but greatly surprised. "For the Mavicks. I don't mean for Mrs. Mavick I hear she is a worldly and revengeful woman but for the girl. It must be dreadful to turn her out of all the surroundings of her happy life.
For the very simple reason that, in his heart of hearts, he disapproved of his liaison with Pilar. As he would not give in, the countess resigned herself to what she called his "schoolgirl crotchet," and they traveled together to St. Valery-en-Caux, another little seaside place several hours' journey from Ault. Here they took rooms together at a hotel, and wrote themselves down as man and wife.
The countess' letters were forwarded by the postmistress at Ault under cover to Anne. The only thing that disturbed Wilhelm's peace of mind was the presence of Anne. Her manner was just as impassive, her face as solemn as before, and she never showed that she noticed any change in her mistress way of life.
"Why, my dear, I was engaged in Research; you will be pleased to know. Looking after those ten millions." When the dinner was over, Carmen followed Mr. Mavick to his study. "What is the matter, Tom?" "Nothing uncommon. It's a beastly hole down there. The Board used to be made up of gentlemen. Now there are such fellows as Ault, a black-hearted scoundrel." "But he has no influence.
There seems to have been not the least suspicion in this household that the head of it was a pirate. It must be said that Mavick still looked upon Ault as an adventurer, one of those erratic beings who appear from time to time in the Street, upset everything, and then disappear.
They surprised a crab in the act of shedding his armor show me! A ride on donkeys to a neighboring village reminded him of a students' picnic at Heidelberg tell me about it! Such of his peculiarities of temper as she did not understand, she guessed at and felt with her fine womanly instinct. If at Ault she had been extremely simple in her dress, here she was almost exaggeratedly so.
Nothing was ever heard of him." The advent and rise of Murad Ault in New York was the sort of phenomenon to which the metropolis, which picks up its great men as Napoleon did his marshals, is accustomed. The mystery of his origin, which was at first against him, became at length an element of his strength and of the fear he inspired, as a sort of elemental force of unknown power.
What she did not consider it necessary to explain to him was, that she had palmed off a complete romance upon the Marquise de Henares, to the effect that Wilhelm had saved her life at Ault while bathing, that he was a celebrated German revolutionist, and the future President of the German Republic, to whom she was affording a refuge in her house because, for the time being, he was obliged to be in hiding from the German secret police, and so forth, and so forth.
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