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Updated: June 9, 2025
It seemed very fortunate to Jack Delancy that he should have such a clever woman as Carmen for his confidante, a man so powerful as Henderson as his backer, and a person so omniscient as Mavick for his friend. No combination could be more desirable for a young man who proposed to himself a career of getting money by adroit management and spending it in pure and simple self-indulgence.
The fellow, however, might be a confidential agent of the Government's, who had perhaps found out something about certain mysterious attempts to damage public property. By and by Foster smiled. Carmen had given him a valuable packet to take care of, and now this stranger had asked his help.
And then when evening comes, dear father, you shall sit by me, and tell me of the snow-capped Himalayas, and the wonders of the East Indian world. Or when the lamp is lighted, I will read to you, just as I did to Frau von Trautenau in her dear little nook." "How often you speak of that lady, Carmen! Is she so very dear to you?" asked Mauer.
But I guess, after all as you say that sort's not my line. I'll never come in the light she makes with her shining, and if I should by accident, she wouldn't go shooting any of her starry glances my way." Carmen was vexed again. "I didn't know you were so sentimental, Nick!" He looked half ashamed. "Well, I didn't know I was, either, till it popped out," he grinned.
"I struck her twice over I had taken Garcia's knife, because I had broken my own. At the second thrust she fell without a sound. It seems to me that I can still see her great black eyes staring at me. Then they grew dim and the lids closed. "For a good hour I lay there prostrate beside her corpse. Then I recollected that Carmen had often told me that she would like to lie buried in a wood.
They finished with the school Carmen, and drank to the House's future success. Laughing and singing, they at last made for the dormitories.
I got an answer, which I opened. I'll show it to you, but won't give it up." "You opened it!" she exclaimed. "Do you mean to keep a letter that was sent to me?" "I don't think it was sent to you; that's important." Carmen smiled defiantly and Foster admired her pluck, since it was obvious that he had found out the trick. Still he thought she did not know how important the letter really was.
At this word Laisangy started, and thus confirmed the suspicions of Carmen, who was watching him. He took her hand, and she withdrew it quickly. He had obtained what he desired, and was now ready to depart. "What is he planning?" said Carmen to herself. "Is it really some financial operation, which, of course, I care nothing about, or is it ?" Goutran's name rose to her lips.
Omar respectfully saluted the young girl, and was lost in the crowd. No one noticed him, for there was much excitement over the illness of the great financier. Carmen followed the lacquey with rather too slow a step for the occasion. She was intensely irritated at this new comedy, and she was tempted to cry out to the crowd: "He lies! He has always lied!" Laisangy was lying back in his chair.
Ah, Gontram, how have I struggled with myself before I found courage enough to inform you of this." Carmen had fallen to the floor. Clutching Gontram's knee she wept bitterly. Gontram felt deep pity for her. He placed his hand on her hair, and gently said: "Carmen, the confession I have just heard has shocked me very much; but, at the same time, it has also pleased me.
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