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I decided to come this way round to see if I could change my luck. That underground passage depresses me." Draconmeyer moved up a couple of steps. He was quite himself now, grave but solicitous. "Lady Hunterleys," he said, "I am sorry, but there has been a little accident. I am afraid that your husband has been hurt. If you will come back to your room for a minute I will tell you about it."
She was sitting up now in an easy-chair. Once more, at the sound of the knock, she looked towards the door eagerly. Her face fell when Draconmeyer entered. "Have you heard anything about Henry?" she asked anxiously. "He came back a few minutes ago," Draconmeyer replied, "and has gone out again." "Gone out again?" Draconmeyer nodded. "I think that he has gone round to the Club.
Very likely she would be able to pay the whole amount back in a day or two. If Henry minded, well, it was his own fault. He should have been different. "You put it so kindly," she said gratefully, "that I am afraid I cannot refuse. You are very, very considerate, Mr. Draconmeyer. It certainly will be nicer to owe you the money than a stranger."
The girl had reappeared and was poising herself upon her toes. The leader of the orchestra summoned Coulois. "I must dance," he announced. "Afterwards I will return." He leapt lightly to his feet and swung into the room with extended arms. Draconmeyer looked down at his plate. "It is a risk, this, we are running," he muttered.
"Your opinion of me is such that I hesitate to proceed at all in the matter which I desired to discuss with you." "That," Hunterleys replied, "is entirely for you to decide. I am perfectly willing to listen to anything you have to say all the more ready because now there can be no possibility of any misunderstanding between us." "Very well," Mr. Draconmeyer assented, "I will proceed.
Presently she rose to her feet. "I suppose," she said, "that I am very foolish to allow myself to be upset like this." "It is quite natural," Draconmeyer assured her soothingly. "What you should try to do is to forget the whole circumstance. You sit here brooding about it until it becomes a tragedy. Let us go down to the Club together. We shall probably see your husband there." She hesitated.
The commissionaire, with his little group of satellites, stood sunning himself on the lowest step, a splendid, complacent figure. There was no sign there of the horror that was hidden within. Even while he looked up at the windows he felt a hand upon his arm. Draconmeyer had caught him up and had fallen into step with him. "Well, dear philosopher," he exclaimed, "why this subdued aspect?
I see you wearing jewels in public of which you were certainly not possessed a few months ago, and which neither your fortune nor mine " "Let me set your mind at rest," she interrupted icily. "The pearls are not mine. They belong to Mrs. Draconmeyer." "Mrs. Draconmeyer!" "I am wearing them," she continued, "at Linda's special request.
"The chief reason for that estrangement is that I forbade her your house or your acquaintance." Draconmeyer was a little taken back. Such extreme directness of speech was difficult to deal with. "My dear Sir Henry," he protested, "you distress me. I do not understand your attitude in this matter at all." "There is no necessity for you to understand it," Hunterleys retorted coolly.
Everything that I had hoped for seems to be happening to-day. You have found out Draconmeyer, we have checkmated Mr. Grex, I have drunk the health of Felicia and David Briston " "Felicia and David Briston?" she interrupted quickly. "What do you mean?" "You knew, of course, that they were engaged?" he explained.
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