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That happens with women sometimes. I want to warn you of a great danger that threatens you, Maxine. Perhaps, late as it is, I could save you from it if you'd let me." "Save me from what?" I asked temporising. "You're very mysterious, Count Godensky. And I'm Mademoiselle de Renzie except to my very intimate friends." "I am your friend, always.
But you do believe, just because you love me I see it in your face, and thank God for it. So I'll tell you this. Count Godensky hates me, because I couldn't and wouldn't love him, and he hates you because he thinks I love you. He " I paused for a second. A wild thought had flashed like the light of a beacon in my brain.
I exclaimed. "You say you want to be my friend, yet you seem to think I am a kleptomaniac. I can't imagine what I should want with any dry old document out of the Foreign Office, can you?" "Yes, I can imagine," said Godensky drily. "Pray tell me then. Also what document it was. For, joking apart, this is rather a serious accusation."
I have an idea that this man, who's well known in Paris society, proposed to Mademoiselle de Renzie, refused to take no for an answer, and bored her until she perhaps was goaded into giving him a severe snub. Godensky is a vain man, and wouldn't forgive a snub, especially if it had got talked about. He'd be a bad enemy: and Mademoiselle seems to think that he is a very bitter and determined enemy.
He meant to send a challenge to Count Godensky. I must prevent him from doing that. "No, Raoul," I said, as if he had finished his sentence, "you musn't fight. For my sake, you mustn't. Don't you see, it's just what he'd like best? It would be a way of doing me the most dreadful injury. Think of the scandal. Oh, you will think of it, when you're cooler.
If Godensky knew, as he may have known since he seemed to know all my movements perhaps he thought that I was seeing Raoul for the last time, and sending him away from me for ever. But, though the game was not in my hands yet, the treaty was; and I had made up my mind to defy Godensky. I had almost promised that, if he held his hand, I would give Raoul up; and never have I broken my word.
"The same English friend whom you would have liked to see arrested early last evening on a ridiculous, baseless charge," I flung at him. "You look surprised. But you are not surprised, Count Godensky except, perhaps, that I should guess who had me spied upon at the Élysée Palace Hotel. A disappointment, that affair, wasn't it? But you haven't told me your news." "It is this: That Mr.
"You don't believe then," I asked, "that Godensky has had any hand in the disappearance of the treaty?" "I would believe it, if it weren't for the necklace being put in its place.
"For God's sake, give me back my faith in you, if you can," he said. "It's death to lose it. I came here wanting to die." "After you'd killed me, as you said?" "Perhaps. I couldn't keep away. I had to come. If you have any explanation, for the love of Heaven, tell me what it is." "You know me, and you know Godensky yet you need an explanation of anything evil said of me by him?"
He called, and was let in by mistake while Raoul was with me, and, just as he must have seen by our faces that there was something to suspect, so I saw by his that he did suspect. Oh, a hateful person! I've refused him three times. There are some men so vain that they can never believe a woman really means to say 'no' to them. Count Godensky is one of those, and he's dangerous, too.
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