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Be my friend, and trust me with Zoe." He turned and twisted it in his mind, and resolved on a bold course. He would go to Homburg, and get that sum by hook or by crook out of Ina Klosking's winnings. He took Fanny into his confidence; only he substituted London for Homburg. "And oh, Miss Dover," said he, "do not let me suffer by going away and leaving a rival behind." "Suffer by it!" said she.
He must send somebody to Homburg, or abandon all thought of his money. Why abandon it? Why not return to Ina Klosking? His judgment, alarmed at the accumulating difficulties, began to intrude its voice. What was he turning his back on?
She sprang up, and a convulsive shudder shook her from head to foot. "Raymond is dead!" she faltered. "Alas! yes, madame. Struck with death at the very moment he was repairing to the appointment you had given him at the Hotel de Homburg."
Among other friends whom I discovered at Monte Carlo, I may mention a certain family whom I had once known well at Homburg, but had never seen again till now a father, a mother, and an eminently beautiful daughter. Their home at Monte Carlo was a villa, small, but so curtained with velvet that it looked like a French jewel box. It was smothered in Banksia roses, and it overlooked the sea.
Sally was too tired to rub the windows and declare how far they were from home, and the dancers endured their discomforts almost in silence; even the embroidered waistcoat occasionally ceased to talk about Homburg; and in all the extreme bitterness and greyness of a March morning they pulled up before the door of the Manor House. "I beg of you not to make a noise.
In this, properly worked, lies a fortune at Homburg, where the play is square. Red gains once; you back red next time, and stop. You are on black, and win; you double. This is the game, if you have only a few pounds. But with five hundred pounds you can double more courageously, and work the short run hard; and that is how losses are averted and gains secured.
'This striped one seems a little looser, he said; or, 'If you'd let out the trousers at the bottom, I think they would do. But in the end all he got from the box was two pairs of pink silk pyjamas, the Homburg hat, several pairs of gloves, spats, and gaiters, and half a dozen neckties that no one else would wear.
Fullaway, I don't know if you know this gentleman his name's well enough known, anyway. This gentleman is Mr. Chilverton, the famous New York detective. Chilverton Mr. Fullaway, Mr. Allerdyke." Fullaway and Allerdyke both looked at the man in the Homburg hat with great interest as they shook hands with him.
The shade from the plane-trees fell on his neat Homburg hat; he had given up top hats it was no use attracting attention to wealth in days like these. Plane-trees! His thoughts travelled sharply to Madrid the Easter before the War, when, having to make up his mind about that Goya picture, he had taken a voyage of discovery to study the painter on his spot.
And while he was thinking these things, Evelyn was telling him that Lady Duckle had met Lady Mersey at Homburg, and had gone on with her to Lucerne, where they hoped to meet Lady Ascott. "You are going to shoot with Lord Ascott next month?" she said, and looking at him she wondered if their relations were after all no more than a chance meeting and parting.
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