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Presently she will make a report, and the whole issue will remain with her. Immelan knows this and pays her ceaseless court. My impression, however, is that his influence is waning. I believe that to-day he is terrified at the bare reflection of how much Naida Karetsky knows." "You believe that she does know exactly what is intended?" Nigel asked. "I am perfectly certain of it," Jesson replied.
I am going to tell you that of all the women in the world, Naida Karetsky is the most likely to make you happy." Nigel drew himself up a little stiffly. "One does not discuss these things," he muttered. "May I call that a touch of insularity?" Prince Shan pleaded, "because there is nothing else in the world so wonderful to discuss, in all respect and reverence, as the women who have made us feel.
Her eyes, rather heavily lidded, were a deep shade of violet. Her mouth was unexpectedly soft and red. "Ah, my friend, no wonder you ask!" Karschoff declared with enthusiasm. "That is a woman whom you must know." "Tell me her name," Nigel persisted with growing impatience. "Her name," Karschoff replied, "is Naida Karetsky.
Such eyes, Maggie, and the slimmest, most wonderful figure you ever saw!" "Who was the cat?" Maggie enquired with asperity. "She is Russian. Her name is Naida Karetsky. Karschoff introduced me." Maggie was suddenly serious. There was just a trace of the one expression he had never before seen in her face fear lurking in her eyes, even asserting itself in her tone. "Naida Karetsky?" she repeated.
The box was suddenly invaded. Karetsky reappeared with several other men. In the rear of the little procession came Immelan. His face darkened as he recognised Nigel. Naida looked across at him with a slight frown upon her forehead. "You have changed your mind?" she remarked. "I thought you were for Paris to-night?" "A fortunate chance intervened," Immelan replied. "Fortunate?"
"At least one should be grateful," he conceded a moment later, "for the distinction such a woman as Naida Karetsky brings into a room like this. Our Bond Street lament finds its proof here. Except for their clothes so ill-worn, too, most of them the women here remind one of Blackpool, and their men of Huddersfield. I am inclined to wish that I had taken you to Soho." Nigel shook his head.
"I can't be responsible, directly or indirectly, for a political flirtation," Chalmers grumbled. "Besides, why should there be any politics about it at all? Mademoiselle Karetsky is quite attractive enough to turn the head even of a seasoned old boulevardier like you, Prince." "That young man," Karschoff said deliberately, "will find himself before long face to face with a blighted career.
Yet supposing that this new wonder had not come into his life, that Immelan had been a shade more eloquent, had pleaded his cause upon a higher level, that Naida Karetsky also had formed a different impression of the world which he was studying so earnestly, what a transformation he could have brought upon this light-hearted and joyous scene!
"There are degrees and conditions of fools," his daughter declared calmly. "A man with a perfectly acute brain may have simply idiotic impulses towards credulity, and a credulous man is always a fool. Anyhow, I know what Paul wants." There was a knock at the door. Karetsky opened it and stood aside to let Nigel pass in. Naida held out her hand to the latter with a smile.
One is Immelan and the other Naida Karetsky." "It seems to me," Maggie said, "that if that is so, the place for us is where those two people are. What is the importance of Kroten, Mr. Jesson?" "Kroten," Jesson replied, "is the second of what I have seen referred to in a private diplomatic report, written in an enemy country, as the three mystery cities of the world.
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