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Something in the old man's tone made him a bit wary. "Maybe it's just a hoax," he thought to himself. Aloud he said, "it was outlawed, of course?" "Oh, yes," replied the old man, "it would doubtless have been so regarded by any other debtor. But I rowed across to Doveness one day and took the note to the new ironmaster, who admitted at once that it was good.
Upon seeing this I fell into a great rage, without exactly knowing why. "This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehood a poor hoax the lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-liner of some wretched concoctor of accidents in Cocaigne. For my own part, I intend to believe nothing henceforward that has anything of the 'singular' about it."
To the truth of this observation the burgomaster assented, and the matter was therefore at an end. Not so, however, rumors and speculations. The letter, having been published, gave rise to a variety of gossip and opinion. Some of the over-wise even made themselves ridiculous by decrying the whole business; as nothing better than a hoax.
I reckoned that she would be fully three minutes going, questioning, finding out that the whole thing was a hoax, and running back to the dressing-room three minutes in which to open the chest, extract the bracelet and, incidentally, anything else of value there might be close to my hand.
Like fairy tales they have a place of their own in art. One of the prettiest of these is Les Dames Vertes, in which the fable seems to lead us over the borders of the supernatural; but the secret of the mystification, well kept till the last, is itself so pleasing and original that the reader has no disappointing sense as of having had a hoax played upon his imagination.
"I think it's an anonymous skit by way of a hoax." "Most likely it is. There's no taking you in." "What makes me think that is that it's so stupid." "Have you received such documents here before?" "Once or twice, anonymous letters." "Oh, of course they wouldn't be signed. In a different style? In different handwritings?" "Yes." "And were they buffoonery like this one?"
"Ah! that's the point," cried the clerk. "To hoax the travellers and have a bit of fun I told them a lot of stuff about Egypt and Greece and Spain. As I happened to be wearing spurs I have myself out for a colonel of cavalry: pure nonsense!" "Tell me," said Moreau, "what did this traveller you take to be Monsieur le comte look like?"
"I will tell you later why I feel desirous to know the truth of all this." "You shall know it," said Vandenesse. "If you stay masked I will take you to supper with Nathan and Florine; it would be rather amusing for a woman of your rank to fool an actress after bewildering the wits of a clever man about these important facts; you can harness them both to the same hoax.
Oddly enough, the other could not get away from his original impression. The clothes, the way the man wore them, the clarity of his eyes, the abundant health that was expressed by the tone of the skin, derided such a possibility as the cablegram made manifest. He forced the smile back to his lips. "Are you sure you're not hoaxing me?" "No. I am the victim of the hoax," enigmatically.
"No, my dear friend," said he drily, "it was not Lord Grey but to continue he had got a letter from him, dated from Paris, stating his surprise that you had never joined them there, according to promise, and that they knew your cousin Guy, and a great deal of other matter I can't remember so what does all this mean? Did you hoax the noble Lord as well as the Horse Guards, Harry?"
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