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"I know he did admire her," said Miss Brewer, "but he has not been here since his brother's death. He is a rich man now." "Yes, he is but that will make no change in him in certain respects. Douglas Dale is a fool, and will always remain so. Madame Durski has completely captivated him, and I am perfectly certain he would marry her to-morrow, if she could be brought to consent."
He lost no time in presenting himself. He endeavoured to stifle all emotion to conquer the impatience that possessed him; but he could not. Madame Durski was seated by one of the windows in the drawing-room when Mr. Dale was announced. She received her lover with every appearance of affection, and with an emotion which she seemed only anxious to conceal.
So far as I can secure you from even the possibility of misfortune, I will do it. I have brought a solicitor here to-day, in order that he may read you a will which I have this morning executed in your favour." "A will!" repeated Madame Durski; "you are only too good to me. But there is something horrible to my mind in these legal formalities." "That is only a woman's prejudice.
"No, Sir Reginald, it is a stern reality," answered Madame Durski, laying her hand on the bell. Her summons was speedily answered by Carlo Toas. "Carlo, the door," she said, quietly. The baronet gave her one look a dark and threatening glance and then left the room, followed by the Spaniard, who conducted him to his cab with every token of grave respect.
"Put what interpretation you please upon my words," he said, "but recognize the facts. There is a strict alliance, if you prefer that phrase, between me and Sir Reginald Eversleigh, and his present intimacy, with his seeming devotion to Madame Durski, prevents him from carrying out the terms of that alliance to my satisfaction. I am therefore resolved to break off that intimacy.
Dale never saw me," said Victor, "and I know not whether he was thoroughly aware of the absurdity, the insanity of this woman's accusations. At all events, I don't wish to recall any unpleasantness to his mind, and therefore I venture to propose that I should visit here, and be introduced to him as Mr. Carton. The fraud is a very harmless one; what do you say, Madame Durski?"
"Not even to the woman who loves you, and whom you profess to love?" said Victor, with a sneer. "What a noble-minded creature you are, Sir Reginald Eversleigh a pattern of chivalry and devotion! However, Madame Durski must remain; that is essential to the carrying out of my plans. If you will not find the money, I know who will."
Paulina Durski is dead!" "Dead!" "Yes. There was a quarrel, yesterday, between these two and he left her. I found her this morning dead! I have told him all the part I have played at your bidding. I shall tell it again in a court of justice, I pray God!" "You can tell it when and where you please," replied Victor, with horrible calmness. "I shall not be there to hear it."
"I bled pretty freely on several occasions when you and I played ecarte; and I have not forgotten the figures on the cheques I had the pleasure of signing in your favour. No, my dear Eversleigh, although I consider Madame Durski the most charming of women, I don't feel inclined to go to Hilton House again."
After the opera Sir Reginald and Hector Leonce accompanied Madame Durski to her apartments in the Rue du Faubourg, St. Honore; and there the baronet beheld higher play than he had ever seen before in a private house presided over by a woman.
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