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Since then, she has lived in the odor of eminent respectability; yet, as I know, always waiting for a victim and always having one. Money is her God." "And, yet, there seems to be nothing in her appearance to suggest such viciousness," said Dehra. "Nothing," I said; "and, hence, her danger and her power." "You knew her when she was Colonel Spencer's wife?"
But, as I looked, they seemed to soften, and I could have sworn that for an instant the Princess Dehra of Valeria smiled at me most sweetly even as once she herself had done. "You seem uncommonly well pleased with the lady," Courtney observed. I handed back the News. "You have not answered my question," he insisted.
"Your Royal Highness honors my country and its army, but through a very unworthy representative, I fear," I said, as I gave her my arm. Then the music began. I have very little recollection of that dance; but I do know that Dehra needed no instruction in our way of doing the two-step; she glided through it as naturally as a Point-girl herself.
"So long as she let my friends alone I cared not what pigeon she plucked. And the very fact that she knew I was in Pittsburgh, was enough to make her shy of anyone I would likely care for." Dehra laughed lightly. "Maybe you were a little bit afraid of her, yourself," she said. "Maybe I was," I admitted; "for she has a fascination almost irresistible when she choose to exert it."
"I am Armand Dalberg's wife" was pounding in my brain. Then I felt a soft little hand slip into mine; a perfumed hair tress touched my cheek; and the sweetest voice, to me, on earth whispered in my ear. "Don't I get my kiss now?" I flung my arm about her and caught her close then loosed her sharply and drew back. "God help me, Dehra, I may not," I said.
"He did not return to Dacca, but I learn from one of his friends to whom he has written several times, and from Father Leclerc, who wrote regularly to Mme. Paindavoine, that they had a villa at Dehra. They selected this spot to live in as it was the center of his voyages; he traveled between the Thiberian frontier and the Himalayas.
"It is because we are so public that you are permitted to sit so near." "Then, why blame me if I take the only opportunities you give me?" I asked. She half closed her eyes and looked at me, side-long, through her lashes. "Have I ever blamed you?" she asked. "Dehra," said I, "if you look at me like that I shall kiss you now." She closed her eyes a trifle more. "Where, Armand?" she said.
I bowed low; yet, not so low, but that I caught the smile Dehra gave me, over her glass, and the sharp glance with which Lotzen noted it. "Is he friend or foe?" I wondered though the answer was evident. Plainly, he was no fool and, therefore, why should he be my friend?
Then, having dispatched Bernheim to the Palace to escort the King and the Princess, I drove to the Metzen, where Gerst piloted me, by private corridors, to the apartments reserved for me, and which adjoined the Gallery. The King and the Princess were the last to arrive. As I greeted them, Dehra detained me. "Shall we be able to see as well as hear?" she asked. "Yes," said I, "if you wish."
This they could have found by ascending to the higher ranges of the great snowy mountains that overlook Nepaul; but as they knew they should also encounter this species near the sources of the Ganges, and as they were desirous of visiting that remarkable locality, they continued on westward through Nepaul and Delhi, arriving at the health station of Mussoorie, in the beautiful valley of the Dehra Doon.
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