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Then I knew that I was on the point of learning a little, at any rate, of the truth. "Mr. Delora has other schemes," Louis said slowly. "So I imagined," I answered. I saw Louis half turn his head. There was no change in his tone nor in his expression. Naturally, therefore, his words sounded a little strangely. "My conversation with monsieur, for the moment, is finished," he said.
Delora Blakely were elected to the Lower House. Altogether there have been thirteen women members of the Legislature. No State has better laws relating to women and children than Utah. It has been difficult to persuade the women to stand for important offices.
Louis' face remained absolutely expressionless. He only shook his head. "Mr. Delora is his own master," he said. "It may suit him to be without mademoiselle, or it may not. Pardon, monsieur!" Louis was gone, but he had left his shadow behind. "He does not think," she murmured, "that I may come!" "Felicia, " I said. "But I did not say that you might call me Felicia!" she interrupted.
Richard Rotherby whom you will doubtless remember, and who speaks most gratefully of your hospitality in Brazil, has sent me a cable on behalf of your brother Mr. Nicholas Delora. It seems that you have not kept him acquainted with your doings here, and that you have failed to make use of a certain cipher that was agreed upon.
With it was coupled an intense curiosity to know the identity of the man who was even now with Felicia! I measured out that quarter of an hour into minutes, and almost into seconds. Then I knocked at the door of the sitting-room, and was bidden enter by Felicia Delora herself. She was alone, but she was dressed for the street, and was apparently just leaving the hotel again.
The commissionnaire pushed open the door, whistle in hand. He looked at me a little curiously. Without doubt he had watched my attempt to speak to Delora. I drew a half-sovereign from my pocket. "Tell me," I said, "do you want to earn that?" He was a German, with a large pasty face and a yellow moustache. His eyes were small, and they seemed to contract with greed as they looked upon the coin.
"There has been no time, though, for his brother to get across from South America." Lamartine smiled. "You are dull," he said. "But watch! What is going to happen now, I wonder?" Delora had risen to his feet. He had the look of a man who has received a shock. He brushed past some people who were taking their places at a table without remark or apology.
"You see I really cannot recognize you in this matter at all. I must find Mr. Delora at once. It is important." "But if he cannot be found?" Louis asked quickly. "Then I think that the best thing I can do," I continued, after a moment's pause, "is to call at the Brazilian embassy."
What I want you to tell me is this, the undertaking in which Mr. Delora is now engaged, is it from a legal point of view a criminal one, or is it merely a matter needing secrecy from other reasons?" Louis stood thoughtfully silent for some few moments. "Monsieur," he said at last, "I will not hide the truth from you. According to the law in this country Mr. Delora is engaged in a conspiracy."
"Why not?" I said. "Mr. Delora comes here with an introduction which precludes my criticising his friends or his connections, however strange they may be, but it is very certain that you ought not to be left here alone to rely upon the advice of a head-waiter, to be practically at the beck and call of men of whose existence you should be unconscious.
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