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"I am not quite contemptible as a lady-artist," I heard her say to Mr. Engelman; "and I should so like to make some little studies of these beautiful old rooms as memorials to take with me when I am far away from Frankfort. But I don't ask it, dear Mr. Engelman. You don't want enthusiastic ladies with sketch-books in this bachelor paradise of yours. I hope we are not intruding on Mr. Keller.
Engelman, enveloped in clouds of tobacco-smoke, enjoyed in silence the composing influence of his pipe. I said, "Yes, sir," and "No, sir," at the right intervals in the flow of Mr. Keller's eloquence. At this distance of time, I cannot pretend to report the long harangue of which I was made the victim. In substance, Mr.
At any sacrifice of her own feelings, she was prepared to do it." I interrupted him again, eager to hear the end. "And she found the bottle?" I said. "She found the bottle," Mr. Engelman resumed. "I can show it to you, if you like. She has herself requested me to keep it under lock and key, so long as it is wanted in this house."
And why had she declined to despatch her letter to him, when the opportunity offered of sending it by the boy? Troubled by the doubts which these considerations suggested, I committed an act of imprudence I replied so reservedly that I put her on her guard. All I said was that I supposed Mr. Engelman agreed with Mr. Keller, but that I was not in the confidence of the two partners.
When I opened my bedroom door the next morning, the widow and Mr. Keller were on the landing outside, and those were the words exchanged between them. Mr. Keller approached, and spoke to me. "What do you know, David, about the disappearance of Mr. Engelman?" "Disappearance?" I repeated. "I was with him yesterday evening and I bade him good-night in his own room."
And all the time some devilish spirit of distrust kept whispering to me, "Don't believe her; she has her motive!" Are you sure, David, it is only a little illness that makes her shut herself up in her room, and look so frightfully pale and haggard? Do you know anything about her affairs? Engelman is rich; Engelman has a position.
Minna took her mother's hand. I alone sat undemonstrative, with my sympathies in a state of repose. Frau Meyer again! Nothing but the influence of Frau Meyer could have hardened me in this way! "I have entreated our sweet friend not to leave Frankfort in despair," Mr. Engelman explained in faltering tones.
At the same moment, the door was opened by the sour old housekeeper, frowning suspiciously at the two elegantly-dressed ladies whom she ushered into the room. But Minna took my arm. I had no choice but to follow Mr. Engelman and her mother when they left the room. Minna spoke to me as confidentially as if I had been her brother.
Engelman lit his pipe, and waited in silence until the good eating and drinking had done their good work. "Now carry your mind back to last night," he began. "You remember my going out to get a breath of fresh air. Can you guess what that meant?" I guessed of course that it meant a visit to Madame Fontaine. "Quite right, David.
Engelman forbade me to remove the stopper. It was very important, he said, that no air should be admitted to the bottle, except when there was an actual necessity for administering the remedy. "I took it away with me the same night," he went on.
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