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"I am afraid to-night it's going to be rather a difficult job." "I always feared it would be," Hunterleys agreed. "Frenhofer tells me," Roche continued, "that for some reason or other their suspicions have been aroused up there. They are all on edge. You know, the house is cram-full of men-servants and there are to be a dozen of them on duty in the grounds.
Filled with such thoughts, Porbus said to the old man, "Is it not woman for woman? Poussin lends his mistress to your eyes." "What sort of mistress is that?" cried Frenhofer. "She will betray him sooner or later. Mine will be to me forever faithful." "Well," returned Porbus, "then let us say no more.
Astonished at the beauty of the young girl, whose eyes were still wet with tears, he caught her all trembling by the hand and led her to the old master. "There!" he cried; "is she not worth all the masterpieces in the world?" Frenhofer quivered. Gillette stood before him in the ingenuous, simple attitude of a young Georgian, innocent and timid, captured by brigands and offered to a slave-merchant.
They stopped before the figure of a woman, life-sized and half nude, which filled them with eager admiration. "Do not look at that," said Frenhofer, "it is only a daub which I made to study a pose; it is worth nothing. Those are my errors," he added, waving his hand towards the enchanting compositions on the walls around them.
The splendor of the stuff attracted the attention of the emperor, who, wishing to compliment the old drunkard, laid a hand upon his shoulder and discovered the deception. Frenhofer is a man carried away by the passion of his art; he sees above and beyond what other painters see.
"Can it be," said Gillette, looking steadily at Poussin and at Porbus, "that I am nothing more than a woman to him?" She raised her head proudly; and as she glanced at Frenhofer with flashing eyes she saw her lover gazing once more at the picture he had formerly taken for a Giorgione. "Ah!" she cried, "let us go in; he never looked at me like that!"
The yacht is to be hired for a week, or longer if necessary, and used only to-night. Behold the wonderful good-fortune of the affair! It is I who have been selected by my master to proceed to Monaco to make arrangements with the German, Herr Schwann. I am on my way there at the moment." "A yacht?" Hunterleys repeated. "There are wonderful things to be thought of," Frenhofer asserted eagerly.
"I must," Roche replied. "Frenhofer wants me to give up the roof idea, but there is nothing else worth trying. He brought a fresh plan of the room with him. There it lies on the table. As you see, the apartment where the meeting will take place is almost isolated from the rest of the house. There is only one approach to it, by a corridor leading from the hall.
"Oh! the old dragon has guarded the entrance. His treasure is out of our reach. I have not waited for your wish or urging to attempt an assault on the mystery." "Mystery! then there is a mystery?" "Yes," answered Porbus. "Frenhofer was the only pupil Mabuse was willing to teach.
He wore no collar, and the remainder of his apparel was negligible. "A bottle of your best brandy," Frenhofer ordered. "The best, mind, Père Hanaut." The man's acquiescence was as amiable as nature would permit. "Monsieur will excuse me," Frenhofer went on, as the door was once more closed, "but these people have their little ways.
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