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"What did he mean by saying that he had seen you before?" he asked. "Just that. He had. I remembered him perfectly. He's the Marquis de Folligny." "Pierre de Folligny!" in amazement. "Not Olga's Pierre de Folligny?" "The same. I knew him instantly. I met him in London, at an evening garden party. That is why I didn't want you to make any trouble." "De Folligny! I have met him.
He took two or three turns, his brows serious, and then came and stood near her at the mantelpiece. "You must straighten things out, Olga with De Folligny," he muttered. "It will ruin her, if he speaks you know what New York is. Gossip like that travels like fire. And she doesn't deserve it not that. You've told me that you don't believe in her innocence, but at heart I think you do. You must.
There was no one he paused, his brow clouding. De Foligny! Had De Folligny learned who Hermia was? Had Olga found out about the companion in his automobile at Verneuil? He waved the thought away. De Folligny was on the other side of the ocean. The psychological moment for Olga's revelation had passed.
It was true; and plainly to be seen that the gentleman was Pierre de Folligny. Philidor watched them uncertainly. A joke passed, they both laughed and the Frenchman indicated his quivering machine hard by. Then it was that Philidor went forth across the square, his brow a thundercloud. The girl cast a glance over her shoulder in his direction and then followed the Frenchman to his machine.
He followed it to its end, emerging presently on a country road which took the line of the railroad to the South. He did not know where he was going, and did not much care so long as he was doing something. His stride lengthened, his jaw was set, his gaze riveted on the spot where his road entered the forest. It would have fared ill with De Folligny if they had met at that moment.
"You see Olga was too busy with her own affairs. She has a Frenchman in tow this season she's brought him here with her florid, blonde, curled and monocled, the Marquis de Folligny " "Pierre de Folligny!" "You know him?" "Yes er slightly." She had babbled her gossip so lightly and rapidly that this last piece of information had not given him the start its significance deserved.
She laughed at him. "Naturellement." The car had begun to move. "One moment, Monsieur " De Folligny only smiled, put on the power and in a moment was speeding down the cobbled street, leaving Philidor staring after them, his head full of wild thoughts of pursuit, the most conspicuous dolt in all Verneuil. But he did not care.
It was Hermia, not De Folligny who was to blame Hermia, the mad, the irrepressible, whom he had roused from her idyl in their happy valley and driven forth, tte baisse, upon this fool's errand Hermia the tender, the tempestuous, the gentle, the precipitate, because of whose wild pranks he, John Markham, Dean of the College of Celibates, now stalked the highroads of France, the victim of his own philosophy.
A wagon? Or was it a motor? This was the way De Folligny had come, for there had been no turnings. He hurried on, his gaze on the distant object which grew nearer at every step. He was sure of one thing now, that the object had not moved of two things that it was not a motor. And yet there was something familiar about it.
"Not to speak of what you saw at Alenon." "Yes. I promise that," she said slowly at last. "Or let De Folligny speak?" Another silence. And then from thinned lips. "I I will use my influence to keep him silent." The firmness of her tone assured him. He caught up her hands and pressed them softly to his lips. "I knew you would, Olga. I knew you were bigger than that.
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