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Updated: May 26, 2025
"I do not understand," he said, extending the paper for her inspection. Neither did she at first. "Karloff has not done this," went on her father, "for it shows that he has had it discounted at the bank. It is canceled; it is paid. I did not have twenty thousand in the bank; I did not have even a quarter of that amount to my credit. There has been some mistake.
This service was a test of his ability to pass through a room without knocking over taborets and chairs. Another time they met, when Betty and the two of them took a long ride. Karloff did notice how well the groom rode his mettlesome mount, being himself a soldier and a daring horseman. Warburton had some trouble.
Some men would have demanded indignantly to know how she had learned these things; not so the count. "There is time to retrieve. Go to the colonel frankly, pay his debts out of your own pockets, then tell the girl that you love her. Before you tell her, her father will have acquainted her with his sin and your generosity. She will marry you out of gratitude." Karloff spun on his heels.
I do not love Karloff, I never could love him; but I like him, and liking him, I feel called upon to defend him. You! The Girl: And why not? That is what I wish to know: why not? The Woman: My dear, you do not love him. That is all I wished to know.
Then he chid himself for the feeling he had against the Russian. Karloff had a right to love this girl, a right which far eclipsed his own. Karloff was Karloff; a handsome fellow, wealthy, agreeable; while James was not James, neither was he wealthy nor at present agreeable. A man can not sigh very well on horseback, and the long breath which left Warburton's lips made a jerking, hissing sound.
Karloff rested his hands on the table and inclined his body toward the colonel. "Listen to me," he began. "There is in every man the making and the capacity of a great rascal. Time and opportunity alone are needed and a motive. The other night I told you that I could not give up your daughter. Well, I have not given her up. She must be my wife." "Must?" The colonel clenched his hands. "Must.
The blind envy those who see, the deaf those who hear; what one does not want another can not have. Karloff loves you, but you do not love him. Poor, happy, unconscious, motherless child! If only I had the power to stay the blow! ... Who can it be, then, that she loves? She adores Karloff, and I never suspected it! I shall begin to hate him. How well women read each other!
What passed between them I gathered from bits recently dropped by Warburton. "Good God, Karloff, what a net you have sprung about me!" said the colonel, despairingly. "My dear Colonel, you have only to step out of it. It is the eleventh hour; it is not too late." But Karloff watched the colonel eagerly. "How in God's name can I step out of it?"
I can imagine no sorrier picture than that of this loving, tender-hearted, wretched old man as he sits there, waiting for Karloff and the ignominious end. Fortune gone with the winds, poverty leering into his face, shame drawing her red finder across his brow, honor in sackcloth and ashes!
As they seldom addressed a word to me, I soon became absorbed in the passing scene. I was presently aroused, however. "Mr. Henderson, Count Karloff," Miss Annesley was saying. I haven't the remotest idea if it means anything in the Russian language. "Charmed!" The count's r's were very pleasantly rolled.
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