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'He has not; and Uncle Aribert is in a deuce of a stew about him, and telegraphing all over Europe. Altogether, things are working up pretty lively. 'Do you really think, Dad, there was anything between Jules and poor Mr Dimmock? 'Think! I know! I tell you I saw that scamp give Dimmock a wink last night at dinner that might have meant well! 'So you caught that wink, did you, Dad?
In a few minutes a message came from the inspector requesting Mr Racksole to be good enough to come to him on the first floor. Racksole went. In the ante-room, where the body of Reginald Dimmock had originally been placed, were the inspector and Prince Aribert, and two policemen. 'Well? said Racksole, after he and the Prince had exchanged bows. Then he saw a coffin laid across two chairs.
At present, of course, Prince Aribert is nominally heir to the throne, but as no doubt you are aware, the Grand Duke will shortly marry a near relative of the Emperor's, and should there be a family Mr Dimmock stopped and shrugged his straight shoulders. 'The Grand Duke, he went on, without finishing the last sentence, 'would much prefer Prince Aribert to be his successor.
The one difficulty which Racksole experienced after the demise of Jules and it was a difficulty which he had, of course, anticipated was connected with the police. The police, very properly, wanted to know things. They desired to be informed what Racksole had been doing in the Dimmock affair, between his first visit to Ostend and his sending for them to take charge of Jules' dead body.
'For instance, he added, 'I perceive that this window is broken, badly broken, and from the outside. Now, how could that have occurred? 'If you will kindly hear reason, Mr Racksole, said Dimmock in his best diplomatic manner, 'I will endeavour to explain things to you.
'And you are sure that you would not like first to be conducted to your apartments? 'Not yet. I will wait till Dimmock comes; he cannot fail to be here soon. 'Then we will have tea served in father's private room the proprietor's private room, you know. 'Good! he said.
I will go and look after my hotel' And soon afterwards he disappeared. Nella and Mr Dimmock sat together on the terrace, sipping iced drinks. They made a handsome couple, bowered amid plants which blossomed at the command of a Chelsea wholesale florist. People who passed by remarked privately that from the look of things there was the beginning of a romance in that conversation.
You ought to have guessed that it isn't etiquette to inquire about the size of a German Dukedom. 'I am sure, said Dimmock, with a polite smile, 'that the Grand Duke is as much amused as anyone at the size of his territory. I forget the exact acreage, but I remember that once Prince Aribert and myself walked across it and back again in a single day.
He never for an instant questioned her right to possess her own friends; he had always left her in the most amazing liberty, relying on her inherited good sense to keep her out of mischief; but, quite apart from the wink, he was struck by Nella's attitude towards Mr Dimmock, an attitude in which an amiable scorn was blended with an evident desire to propitiate and please.
'Then the Grand Duke cannot travel very far within his own dominions? You may say that the sun does set on his empire? 'It does, said Dimmock. 'Unless the weather is cloudy, Nella put in. 'Is the Grand Duke content always to stay at home? 'On the contrary, he is a great traveller, much more so than Prince Aribert.
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