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The admonitory words ended abruptly, for the door of the box reopened and Joe found the Countess Courteau facing him. For an instant their glances met and in her eyes the man saw an expression uncomfortably reminiscent of that day at Sheep Camp when she had turned public wrath upon his brother Jim's head.
He would have followed up his attack only for the lieutenant, who grappled with him. "Here! Do you want me to put you in irons?" Courteau raised himself with difficulty; he groped for the bar and supported himself dizzily thereon, snarling from the pain.
Then she told of her and 'Poleon's trip to the mines and of their success. "Pierce will be at liberty inside of an hour," she declared. "Well, I've learned the truth." Rouletta started; eagerly she clutched at the elder woman. "What? You mean ?" "Yes. I wrung it out of Courteau. He confessed." "It WAS a frame-up a plot? Oh, my dear !" "Exactly. But don't get hysterical. I'm the one to do that.
"Courteau is a rotter, and your affair with his wife explains his animosity." "It wasn't exactly an 'affair, sir." Pierce colored slightly as he went on to explain. "You see, I was perfectly honest. I didn't know there was a count, and when I learned there was I up stakes and ended it. She was the first woman who ever Well, sir, I admired her tremendously. She impressed me wonderfully."
She was sitting on the edge of her bed, staring at the wall, when the Countess Courteau knocked at her door and entered. The women had become good friends; frequently the elder one stopped to gossip. The Countess flung herself into a chair, rolled and lit a cigarette, then said: "Well, I see you and Agnes saved the bankroll again." Rouletta nodded. "Agnes is an awful bluff. I never load her.
"She was deeply indignant and considerably disappointed in me as a man and a father when I refused to quash the entire proceedings and apologize, on behalf of the Dominion Government, for the injury to the lad's feelings. She was actually peeved. What ails her I don't know. Then the Countess Courteau dropped in, and so did that 'lady dealer' from the Rialto. Now you take up his defense."
We will treat my friends, we will gamble here and there, we will watch the shows to an accompaniment of popping corks so that every one shall see us and say: 'Yonder is Courteau and his wife. They have made up and she adores him like a mistress. Parbleu! The man has a way with women, eh! It shall be a great night for me." "Are you really serious?" Courteau stamped his felt-shod foot.
On the very evening that Colonel Cavendish and his wife were discussing Pierce Phillips' affair, Courteau, feeling in a particularly jubilant mood, decided to put the matter to a test; therefore he surprised his wife by walking into her room unannounced. "My dear," he began, "it's high time we had a talk." "Indeed!" said she. "What about?" "About you, about me, about our affairs.
Stepping to the inner door, he spoke to some one, and an instant later the Countess Courteau came forth. Rouletta had not seen the Countess alone since early the previous evening. She went swiftly to her now and placed an arm about her shoulders. Hilda responded to this mark of sympathy with a weary smile. "Well, I had to go through with it to the bitter end," she said, in a low voice.
There was no law whatever in the land save the will of these men; in their hands lay life or death, exoneration or infamy. He searched the faces round about him, but could find signs neither of friendship nor of sympathy. This done, he looked everywhere for a glimpse of a woman's straw-colored hair and was relieved to discover that the Countess Courteau was not in the audience.
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