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"I cannot explain to you its exact nature, but it is in connection with the most wonderful organization of its sort which the world has ever known." "The 'Double-Four," she murmured. "Attached to the post is a princely salary and but one condition," Monsieur de Founcelles said, watching the girl's face. "The condition is that Mr. Ruff remains a bachelor." Violet nodded.
A sudden illuminating flash of horror told her the truth. She closed her eyes and tried to run from the room. "I will not be told," she screamed. "I will not hear. I do not know who you are. I will live a little longer." "Madame," De Grost said, "the Double-Four wages no war with women, save with spies only. The spy has no sex.
The world of criminals is still at our beck and call, we still claim the right to draw the line between moral theft and immoral honesty, but to-day the Double-Four is concerned with greater things. Within the four walls of this room, within the hearing of these my brothers, whose fidelity is as sure as the stones of Paris, I tell you a great secret.
A man unshaven, terrified, with that nameless fear in his face which one sees reflected in the expression of some trapped animal stood there looking out at them. "'Double-Four'!" the doctor said, softly. "Go back into the room, please. Antoine will kindly leave us." "Who are you?" the man gasped. "'Double-Four'!" the doctor answered. "Obey me, and be quick for your life! Strip!" The man obeyed.
"You need not trouble to assume that most disconsolate of expressions, my dear Baron," she assured him. "Your reputation as a man of gallantry is beyond question; but remember that I know you also for the most devoted and loyal of husbands. We waste no time in folly, you and I. It is the business of the Double-Four." Peter was relieved, but his innate politeness forbade his showing it.
"It will be best for you," he said, "not to notice him. Of course, his presence here may be accidental. He has a perfect right to enter any society he chooses. At the same time, I am uneasy." She understood in a moment. "The Clenarvon diamonds!" she whispered. He nodded. "It is just the sort of affair which would appeal to the 'Double-Four," he said.
Don't you understand that it is the gambler's instinct the restless desire to be playing pitch-and-toss with fate, with honor, with life and death, if you will that brings such as myself into the ranks of the 'Double-Four'? It is the weariness which kills, Peter Ruff. One must needs keep it from one's bones." "Marquis," Peter Ruff answered, "I do not profess to understand you.
"During these four years when you, my friend, have been growing turnips and shooting your game, events in the great world have marched, new powers have come into being, a new page of history has been opened. As everything which has good at the heart evolves toward the good, so we of the Double-Four have lifted our great enterprise onto a higher plane.
"For the rest, I will admit that I am puzzled," Peter said. "I need to think. I have the glimmerings of an idea no more." "You will act? It is an affair for us for the Double-Four?" "Without a doubt an affair and a serious one," Peter assured her. "I shall act; exactly how I cannot say until after to-morrow." "To-morrow?" she repeated, inquiringly.
"I claim my rights as a corresponding member of the Double-Four," the newcomer declared. "My friend the Count von Hern finds menace to certain plans of ours in your presence upon this steamer. Unknown to him, I come to you openly. I claim your aid, not your enmity." "Let us understand one another clearly," Sogrange said. "You claim our aid in what?" Mr.
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