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And now he felt that his only hope of safety was in Micheline's love for him. But first of all he must go and see if Herzog had returned, and ascertain the real facts of the position in regard to the Universal Credit Company. Herzog occupied a little house on the Boulevard Haussmann, which he had hired furnished from some Americans. The loud luxury of the Yankees had not frightened him.
They had almost reached it when a smash of glass at the far end of the laboratory whipped them round, in keener terror. Staring, wild-eyed, they beheld the crouching figure of Herzog. Running, even as he cringed, he had upset a glass retort, which had shattered on the concrete floor. And as he ran, he screamed: "They're in! They're coming! Quick the steel vaults! Let me in, there! Let me in!"
"The knowledge of inevitable and pressing danger which threatens Serge." "A danger! Of what kind?" "Compromised by Herzog, he is at the mercy of my husband, who has sworn to ruin him." "Your husband!" "Yes, he is his rival. If you could ruin me, would you not do it?" said Jeanne. "You!" retorted Micheline, passionately. "Do you think I am going to worry about you? Serge is my first thought.
Just now I'm enlarging my place, and I got contracts to make and new people to hire. I hope you ain't got no law suits nor nothing." "Law suits ain't in my line, Mr. Herzog," Leon said. "Once in awhile I change my working people, too. That's why I come here." "Sometimes you change 'em for the worse, Leon," Herzog commented, indicating Abe Potash's effective ad with a stubby forefinger.
And now he felt that his only hope of safety was in Micheline's love for him. But first of all he must go and see if Herzog had returned, and ascertain the real facts of the position in regard to the Universal Credit Company. Herzog occupied a little house on the Boulevard Haussmann, which he had hired furnished from some Americans. The loud luxury of the Yankees had not frightened him.
He must be calm; must pass the insult, smooth the situation and remain employed there. "I I beg pardon," he managed to articulate, with pale lips that trembled. He wiped the beaded sweat from his broad forehead. "Excuse me, Mr. Herzog. I you startled me. What's the trouble? Any complaint to make? If so, I'm here to listen." Herzog's teeth showed in a rat-like grin of malice.
It was only fair that it should cost them something. Herzog uttered his tirade with all the charm of which he was capable; he looked to the right and to the left to notice the effect. He saw nothing but constrained faces. It seemed as if they were expecting some one or something. Time was passing; ten o'clock had just struck.
Cayrol was too much engaged with the new anxieties which Herzog caused him, to look after his wife, and left her quite free to amuse herself. Besides, he had not the least suspicion. Jeanne, like all guilty women, overwhelmed him with kind attentions, which the good man mistook for proofs of love.
Pierre and Marechal had come nearer, and Madame Desvarennes, profiting by this mingling of groups, introduced the men to each other. On hearing the name of Pierre Delarue, Herzog looked thoughtful, and asked if the young man was the renowned engineer whose works on the coast of Africa had caused so much talk in Europe?
But the thought of giving up his liberty, and again subjecting himself to Madame Desvarennes's protection was like the lash of a whip, and he blushed for having hesitated. Herzog looked at him, and, smiling in a constrained way, said: "You, too, may give up the affair if you like. If I share it with you it is because you are so closely allied to me.
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