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"Stupid of me, but I simply can't think what it could have been." "I can now." Karslake looked askance at Sofia. "Since I've heard so much Chinese spoken by the servants now I come to think of it" Sofia's eyes grew bright with triumph "I'm sure it must have been Chinese you were speaking to the man I mean." "Impossible," Karslake pronounced calmly. "But you do know Chinese, don't you?"
Nevertheless, there were times, far too many of them, too, when of a sudden Victor would forsake his occult preoccupations and, unceremoniously upsetting whatever arrangements Sofia might have made with Mrs. Waring or Karslake, would find other pleasures of his own invention for her to share with him alone: long motor jaunts through the English countryside, apparently his favourite recreation; a box all to themselves at a theatre, where Victor would sit watching the girl with a fascination only rivalled by her fascination with the traffic of the boards; curiously constrained little dinners
Aside from such visitations, however, the great world coldly passed the café by; although it couldn't complain for lack of patronage, and in fact prospered exceedingly if without ostentation on the half-crowns of loyal Soho and more fickle suburbia. The Sohobohemian on its native heath and the City clerk on the loose, however, were not prone to such vestments as young Mr. Karslake affected.
In two or three places there are smudges where the powder-blackened finger and thumb held the sheets momentarily. I would give much to own it, but Tejada will not give it up without Bass's permission, and Bass has gone to the Klondike. As to Karslake himself.
But in either case I am not understandable to myself. How, then, be understandable to others? If these sheets of paper, this incoherence, is ever read, the others will understand it about as much as the investigating hawk. But none the less be it of record that I, Karslake, SAW. It reads like Revelations: 'I, John, saw. It is just that. There is something apocalyptic in it all.
The car shot away and rounded into the cross street before the bobby could collect himself enough to look at its license plate. He made after it, but when he had reached the corner it had turned another and was lost. At the second turning Karslake looked round from the window with a reassuring laugh, and settled back beside Sofia. "So that ends that!" She stared wide-eyed through the shadows.
"And one thing more: I am forgiven? You are not cross with me?" "Why should I be?" "Because of what happened this afternoon when I scolded Karslake for making love to you." "Oh," said Sofia with a good show of indifference she was so tired "that!"
If you'll overlook the informality, my name's Karslake, Roger Karslake, Princess Sofia, and I'm taking you to your father." This startling announcement Sofia received without comment and with a composure quite as surprising. The life which had made her what she was, a young woman singularly unillusioned, well-poised, and well-informed, had brought out in her nature a strong vein of scepticism.
Sometimes I think the East has never had a secret he doesn't know." He paused and drew nearer, with added earnestness in his regard. "Princess Sofia," said he, diffidently, "if I may say something without meaning to seem disrespectful " Perplexed, she encouraged him with one word: "Please." "I'm afraid," Karslake ventured, "you will have many strange experiences in this new life.
But if Karslake translated Victor's message, as edited by the hand of Nogam, it was to a wire as deaf as it was dumb.
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