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"After I've sent my cable I'm off to Belgrade for a week, at any rate," Dorward answered. "I hear the women are forming rifle clubs all through Servia." Bellamy smiled thoughtfully. "I know one who'll want a place among the leaders," he murmured. "Mademoiselle Idiale, I suppose?" Bellamy assented. "It's a queer position hers, if you like," he said. "All Vienna raves about her.
Mademoiselle Idiale, with the aid of one of the two maids who were traveling with her, was able to make a sufficiently effective toilette. At a few minutes before the time for luncheon, she walked down the corridor and recognized Von Behrling, who was sitting with his companions in one of the compartments. "Ah, it is indeed you, then!" she exclaimed, smiling at him.
"Mademoiselle Idiale is waiting for you, sir," he announced at once. "Will you be so good as to come this way?" Laverick followed him. She was sitting at the same table as last night, but she was alone, and it was laid, he noticed with surprise, only for two. "You have treated me," she said, as she held out her fingers, "to a new sensation.
We two, we love them, perhaps, as you do, but there is a place and a time for them, and it is not now. Our mission is too serious." "Well, well!" Von Behrling exclaimed impatiently, "what is all this? What do I do wrong? What have you to say against me? If I talk with Mademoiselle Idiale, it is because it is the natural thing for me to do.
"If he goes to Mademoiselle Idiale's," Streuss repeated slowly, "there is still a chance for us!" Laverick, in presenting his card at the box office at Covent Garden that evening, did so without the slightest misconception of the reasons which had prompted Mademoiselle Idiale to beg him to become her guest. It was sheer curiosity which prompted him to pursue this adventure.
"I will sign a draft for you here, and I will undertake to bring you the money, or honor it wherever you say, within twenty-four hours." "I cannot decide so quickly," said Bellamy, shaking his head. "Mademoiselle Idiale and I must talk together first. I am not sure," he added, "whether I might not find a higher bidder." Streuss laughed mirthlessly. "There is little fear of that," he said.
"You see, we are all so tired of it." "I think it is ripping," Bellamy declared. "I shall have the pleasure again directly," he added, with a bow. The two men crossed the room. "What the dickens does Mademoiselle Idiale want with me?" Laverick demanded. "Does she know that I am a poor stockbroker, struggling against hard times?" Bellamy shrugged his shoulders.
She looked at him with a piteous little smile. "The last two nights you have spoiled me," she said. "I have so many evil thoughts and I am afraid to go home." "I am sorry. If I could think of anything or anywhere " "No, you must take me home, please," said she. "It was selfish of me. Only Mademoiselle Idiale is such a wonderful person. Do you think that she will want you every night?"
Women of her position, as you may understand, have to be exceptionally careful. It would be a very serious matter indeed if she were unable to sing to-night." "I am exceedingly sorry to hear it," Laverick answered. "In that case, I will call again when Mademoiselle Idiale has recovered." "By all means, my dear sir!" Mr. Lassen exclaimed. "Many times, let us hope.
There was nothing of the accuser in her countenance; a gentle irony was its most poignant expression. "Is this a fairy tale, Mademoiselle Idiale?" She shrugged her shoulders. "It might seem so," she answered. "Sometimes I think that all the time we live two lives, the life of which the world sees the outside, and the life inside of which no one save ourselves knows anything at all.
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