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Considering all the circumstances, it would be no great strain upon the credulity to picture Fluette, driven to desperation, ridding himself of the foe that had hounded him to ruin. There was nothing else for me to do except follow all these avenues to the end; but whichever was the right one, that end must be bitter. I met the piteous look in Genevieve Cooper's eyes, and my heart sank.
Her lip curled and her eyes flashed. "You would weave a rope about Royal's neck!" "I would not," I emphatically disputed. He don't know now " She broke in, leaning with intense eagerness across the chair-back. "Then why is he in prison?" There was a note of triumph in her voice, as if she had me cornered. "Miss Fluette," I replied earnestly, "will you listen to me for a few minutes?
It is needless to dwell upon the scene in Alfred Fluette's study; I shall take up merely such details as constitute an integral part of this memoir, and hurry along. After Genevieve had led Belle away, Mr. Fluette quickly mastered himself. The bitter moment of the confession once passed, it seemed as if his mind had been relieved of a great burden, and he talked to me with comparative unreserve.
I bluntly demanded. "Griggs Samuel B. Griggs." "I think, Mr. Samuel B. Griggs if you really want to know that you 're a damned idiot." But one's memory is apt to play strange and unaccountable tricks, and mine is no exception. The best mental image I can recall is distorted, all out of drawing, as the artists say; I can see only Belle Fluette.
"Then you know of the contest several years ago in London for its possession," Maillot pursued; "how Mr. Fluette coveted it for his collection, and how my uncle thwarted his efforts to obtain it. Mr. Fluette is very determined, and when his purpose is once set, it is not an easy matter to change or sway it.
Unless I was very much mistaken, the abrupt lowering of her voice which accompanied this question, the sudden narrowing of her eyes, betokened a strong dislike for the secretary. So, then, Miss Fluette was acquainted with him, was she? "Yes, he's here," Maillot absently replied. Then a swift look a flash of understanding passed between the two girls.
Burke and Maillot arrived while I was thus engaged, and before I had time to enter the library the front door opened to admit a party of three Miss Cooper and Miss Fluette, who were accompanied by a handsome, dignified man with white hair and a closely trimmed beard which he wore parted in the middle and brushed straight back. Instinctively I knew this man to be Alfred Fluette.
Fluette, I saw the jurors exchange questioning glances with one another; and then, as the enmity and ill feeling between the two men became more and more apparent, the six faces gradually came to assume expressions of open incredulity. If the young lawyer remarked the effect of his testimony, which he could scarcely help doing, the circumstance seemed not to dismay him in the least.
Their manner toward his niece underwent a sudden transformation; their attitude became more respectful. Miss Cooper was dismissed, and Maillot was recalled. He denied any formal engagement between himself and Miss Fluette; but it soon became apparent, both from his manner and her growing vexation, pretty precisely what the relations between them really were.
"'Young man, said he, in another wrathful outburst, 'I certainly admire your cheek advising me in my own house, too as to my treatment of my own family! "For a second or two I returned his infuriated look; and then, resolved not to stand there bandying words nor to be led into a quarrel with him, I said: "'I 'm sorry, Mr. Fluette more than I can express that you feel towards me as you do.
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