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"Yes I have reasons for not caring to quarrel with Keralio just now." She looked up quickly. "Why? What is that man to you? He's your fencing master, I know, but that's no reason for making a friend of him. I never understood why you associated with him. He is so different to you." Her husband smiled.
Yet, in what position was he to frustrate Keralio in any of his schemes? He had him in his power; he was completely at his mercy. He allowed him to masquerade in New York as the millionaire, but he was the real master of the Traynor home. Even now, François might be spying on their actions, eager to report to the arch conspirator. Rising from the chair, he lifted her to her feet.
She swept away from him with the dignity of an offended queen. The silence was deadly. All one heard was the silk rustle of her gown as she moved across the floor. "It's my say," exclaimed Ray. "I lead with trumps," said Steell. "Signor Keralio has to go. Isn't it too bad!" Mr. Steell and Dick rose and bowed politely. There was nothing to be done.
These would-be Lotharios might as well have tried to set an iceberg on fire. Quietly, but firmly and in unmistakable terms, she let them understand that they were wasting their time and their ardor thus quenched, one by one they dropped away and left her in peace. Only Signor Keralio had persisted.
Then suddenly he asked: "When did you leave the house?" "This afternoon at three o'clock." "When did Mrs. Traynor return from Philadelphia?" "Yesterday furious at the hoax played upon her? Miss Dorothy is perfectly well " Keralio smiled. "Of course. I sent that telegram." The valet grinned. Admiringly, he exclaimed: "You are admirable! Quel homme, mon dieu, quel homme!"
When he's drunk you can't do anything with him. He's getting ugly about ze diamonds." Steell nudged his fellow eavesdropper. "Did you hear that?" he whispered. "He spoke of diamonds!" Keralio was heard bursting into a peal of savage laughter. "Getting ugly is he? What does he want?"
He called at your house to-day, but you had just left, so he called on me. You have not seen him since he sailed away three months ago on the Mauretania." She listened bewildered. Her color came and went. What did he mean? Could it be possible that no, had not Keralio said he was dead? Trembling with suppressed emotion, she whispered: "Tell me what is it tell me "
Paying no heed to the compliment, Keralio went on: "What did Handsome say?" "He is puzzled himself and can't understand. Everyone's up in the air. They think it is a discharged maid who did it for spite." "The next time Mrs. Traynor receives a sudden message about her baby it will not be a hoax." The valet looked up in surprise. "What do you mean?"
When she had disappeared, Steell turned to his hostess and said: "Have you seen Signor Keralio lately?" "Hardly you know I dismissed him from the house." The lawyer sat thoughtfully drumming his fingers on the table. Musingly, he said: "Somehow I have a hunch that that fellow knows something about the diamonds. Does Kenneth ever see him?" "I asked him the other day. He said he did not."
To-night, Keralio was perhaps more anxious than at any time to discourage callers especially should they happen to be inquisitive secret service agents. Another few days and he would have nothing more to fear. The presses would soon have completed their work and $500,000 worth of as fine a $10 counterfeit as ever deceived a bank teller would be ready for distribution.
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