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At their head and forefront I could see the moonlight glitter on his watch-chain, which lay in a most favourable position for lunar reflection stood the newly elected Member for Stoneleigh, Mr Alderman Stridge. Simultaneously there was a knock at the door, and the hall-porter of the hotel appeared. "Mr Stridge's compliments, sir, and he would like to have a word with you."
Clo helped her into the long gray coat which covered her evening dress; and the two stole out of the flat like flitting shadows. They went down in the elevator, but the hall-porter was off duty for the night, having left a young understudy in charge. The girls walked fast to the nearest taxi stand, Clo trying not to breathe hard and so remind Angel of her weakness.
Immediately I arrived at my brother's hotel I rang up the hall-porter of the Milan and informed him of my whereabouts. Afterwards Ralph and I between us concocted a cable to Dicky, for which I was thankful that I had not to pay. I had now taken Ralph into my entire confidence, and I found that he took very much the same view of Delora's behavior as I did. This is what we said, Have seen Delora.
I did not reach my hotel till past midnight, but this was not late for Naples, and the curiosity of the fat French hall-porter was not so much excited by the lateness of my arrival as by the disorder of my apparel. "Ah, Heaven!" he cried; "that monsieur the distinguished should have been in such a storm all unprotected! Why did not monsieur send for his carriage?"
The gorgeously liveried hall-porter nodded familiarly to the artist, whom he had seen for several seasons selling his work on the landing, and made a good-natured comment on his "luck" in having secured the patronage of a rich English "Milor," but otherwise little notice was taken of the incongruous couple as they passed up the stairs to "Milor's" private rooms on the first floor, where, as soon as they entered, Blythe shut and locked the door.
"Yes," the hall-porter declared a few seconds later, "two gentlemen have just gone out in a hurry. They said they were late for an appointment, and had to make haste." "Did you recognise them?" asked the manager. "I've seen them here once or twice before," was the porter's reply, "but I know nothing about them." The manager looked at Bob in despair. "You see how it is, sir.
On the evening of this nocturne the well-known circular entrance-hall of the Majestic, with its tessellated pavement, its malachite pillars, its Persian rugs, its lounges, and its renowned stuffed bears at the foot of the grand stairway, was for the moment deserted, save by the head hall-porter and the head night-porter and the girl in the bureau.
A glance into the vestibule of the hotel revealed Cynthia, in motor coat and veil, giving some instructions, probably with regard to letters, to a deferential hall-porter. Walking rapidly round the front of the car, he caught Marigny's shoulder with his left hand.
Then I turned away, full of my own sad thoughts, and strolled in the falling twilight beside the grey sea. Just before dinner, after re-entering the hotel, I wrote a note and gave it to the hall-porter to send to the Signorina. "The Signorina and the Signora have left, Signore. They went down to the boat for Naples half an hour ago." I tore up the note, and next day left Palermo.
Idly glancing up and down the autographed pages of the hotel register, as his fingers half-mechanically turned leaf after leaf backward, Langholm's eye had suddenly caught a name of late as familiar to him as his own. It was the name of John Buchanan Steel. And the date was the date of the Minchin murder. The hall-porter was only too ready for further chat.
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