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Why, the Ghetto could not even realize such indifference to the heavenly tribunals so busily decreeing their life-or-death sentences! Barstein raised his glass. 'Here's a happy new year, anyhow! he said. The three men clinked glasses. Rozenoffski drew out a hundred-lire note. 'Send that to the poor devil, he said. 'Oho! laughed Schneemann. 'You still believe "Charity delivers from death!"
Still, if she should find out that she, Bettina, had betrayed her! Was a hundred-lire note worth the risk of losing her mistress? She began to think deeply. At length she shook her head sorrowfully. "No, signore. I dare not." "But a hundred lire!" "Ah, no, no!" Bettina put her hands over her ears. "Then I shall follow you step by step, all the day long."
Find out yourself." So Merrihew, hopeless and subdued, went into the room designated, saw the cigars taken out and weighed, took the bill and presented it with a hundred-lire note at the little window in the off-room. The official there pushed the money back indifferently. "Française, Monsieur, française!" Merrihew blinked at him. What was the matter now? Was the note bad?
"You might make the attempt, just to see what I should do." Merrihew stood watching them, having lost interest in the doves. "Supposing I should drop a hundred-lire note, accidentally, and walk away?" Hillard twisted the ends of his mustache. "But first I should have to tell you, accidentally, where my mistress is?" "That, of course." "A hundred-lire note!"
The six hundred dollars in express company checks and the three hundred-lire bills were all the money the unhappy Mellin had in the world, and until he could return to Cranston and go back to work in the real-estate office again, he had no prospect of any more. He had not even his steamer ticket.
Well, I must be saved too! And he threw down another hundred-lire note. To the acutely analytical Barstein it seemed as if an old superstitious thrill lay behind Schneemann's laughter as behind Rozenoffski's donation. 'You will only make the Luftmensch believe still more obstinately in his Providence, he said, as he gathered up the New Year gifts.
The next morning, however, his valet brought her a letter from him, which contained the amount of his debt in Italian hundred-lire notes, accompanied by a very cool excuse. Wanda was satisfied, but she wished to find out who the lady was, in whose company she constantly saw Don Escovedo. "Don Escovedo." An Austrian count, who had a loud and silly laugh, said: "Who has saddled you with that yarn?
To Bettina this was an enormous sum in these unfortunate days. Her resolution wavered. "A hundred-lire note!" She felt that she could make no strong defense against such an assault. Hillard drew the note from his pocket and crinkled it. "A new dress and bits of lace." Bettina saw duty one way and avarice the other. Her mistress would never know.
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