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The girl's attitude had changed; he was not blind and could not fail to note it. For the present, however, he smothered his own interests and strove with all his strength to advance a solution of the problems before him. He was specially desirous to furnish important information for Peter Ganns on his return.
Peter Ganns did not lack this perspicuity. It was visible in his big face to any student of physiognomy. He smiled with his mouth, but his eyes were grave never ironical, never satirical, but always set in a stern, not unkindly expression. They were watchful yet tolerant the eyes of one versed in the weakness as well as the nobility of human nature.
I am almost inclined to send Ernesto to see if all be well with him and report that all is well with me." He rambled on and presently went out upon his balcony and looked across to Bellagio. Then he appeared to forget Signor Poggi for a time and presently ate a little of the store of food brought back in secret by Mr. Ganns on the previous night.
"Providence is, I think, upon our side, pretty one," he began, "for my amazing friend, Peter Ganns, who designed to visit me in September, has already arrived in England; and when he hears of this ugly sequel to the story I confided in his ears last winter, I am bold to believe that he will hasten to me immediately and not hesitate to modify his plans.
I can trust you; and you must trust me and Mark here till to-morrow night. You'll soon be at peace again with your troubles ended." Albert thanked Ganns and expressed his satisfaction that a conclusion was in sight. "I have seen through the glass darkly," he told them. "Indeed I cannot say that I have seen through the glass at all.
Having reached this conviction, his reconstruction of each event threw added light; but even so it must have been a spark of prodigious inspiration that identified in Doria the vanished Cornishman. Ganns is a great man on his own plane.
"But now I see more clearly and believe that it is only by faith in our Maker that we can understand ourselves. 'Better' is ever the enemy of 'good, and 'best' is a golden word only to be used for martyrs and heroes." "Men do their best for two things, Albert," replied Mr. Ganns.
Presently he indicated an aspect of her own position arising from his words on the previous night. "Did it ever strike you that it was a bold thing to marry within little more than nine months of your first husband's disappearance, Mrs. Doria?" he asked. "It did not; but I shivered when I heard you talking yesterday. And call me 'Jenny, not 'Mrs. Doria, Mr. Ganns."
"I have only thought of Giuseppe Doria in connection with myself, never in connection with Uncle Bendigo and Uncle Albert. Uncle Bendigo died if he is dead before I consented to marry Doria before he asked me to do so. But keep my mistake from my uncle. I don't want him to know I'm miserable." "You must decide where to put your trust, my dear," answered Mr. Ganns.
In seemly, splendid fashion she passed and it shall not be recorded that the man this glorious woman loved made an end of his days with less distinction and propriety. To die on the gallows is to do what many others have done; I will condescend to no such ignominy. Ganns understood me well enough for that.
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