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"I shall remember." "Then we should be glad of the explanation," said Ward, resting his arms on my table and leaning across it toward Keredec. "We should, indeed," I echoed. "It is simple," began the professor.
Up-stairs the curtains were carefully drawn across all the windows of the east wing; little leaks of orange, here and there, betraying the lights within. Glouglou, bearing a tray of covered dishes, was just entering the salon of the "Grande Suite," and the door closed quickly after him. "It is to be supposed that Professor Keredec and his friend are fatigued with their journey from Paris?"
"In heaven's name," gasped Miss Elizabeth, seizing her cousin by the arm, "come into the pavilion. Here's the whole world looking at us!" "Professor Keredec " Mrs. Harman began, resisting, and turning to the professor appealingly. "Oh, let him come too!" said Miss Elizabeth desperately. "Nothing could be worse than this!"
"I think it is DONE! And ha! my dear sir, if it SHOULD be, this big Keredec will not have lived in vain! It was a great task I undertake with my young man, and the glory to see it finish is almost here. Even if the danger should come, the THING is done, for all that is real and has true meaning is inside the soul!"
"I would burn my hand from my arm and my arm from my body," he went on, with the same wild intensity, "rather than trouble her or frighten her, but I couldn't help speaking to her any more than I can help wanting to see her again the feeling that I MUST whatever you say or do, whatever Keredec says or does, whatever the whole world may say or do. And I will!
How do I know? The young, always they believe they are the only ones who were ever young! Ho, ho, ho! Come, we shall make those lessons very easy to-night. Come, my friend! How could that big, old Keredec know of such things? He is too old, too foolish! Ho, ho, ho!"
Harman, unnoticed by me I was watching the Spanish woman had descended the steps and had passed Keredec, walking straight to Mariana. I leaped down after her, my heart in my throat, fearing a thousand things. "You must not talk like that," she said, not lifting her voice yet every one in the courtyard heard her distinctly. "You can do neither of us any harm in the world."
"I think," said Madame Brossard, "I think one would call her Spanish, but she is very fat, not young, and with a great deal too much rouge " She stopped with an audible intake of breath, staring at my friend's white face. "Eh! it is bad news?" she cried. "And when one has been so ill " Keredec checked her with an imperious gesture. "Monsieur Saffren and I leave at once," he said.
You can imagine about how competent such a man as Keredec would be to deal with the situation. In the mean time, his ward is in so dreadful a state of horror and grief I am afraid it is possible that his mind may really give way, for it was not in a normal condition, of course, though he's perfectly sane, as I tell you.
I began, a little later. "Monsieur, they did not seem fatigued," said Amedee. "But they dine in their own rooms to-night." "Every night, monsieur. It is the order of Professor Keredec. And with their own valet-de-chambre to serve them. Eh?" He poured my coffee solemnly. "That is mysterious, to say the least, isn't it?" "To say the very least," I agreed.
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