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Brott, come this way with me." Lucille sank into a chair with a little murmur of relief. The Prince led Brott into another room, and closed the door carefully behind him. "Mr. Brott," he said, "can I speak to you as a friend of Lucille's?" Brott, who distrusted the Prince, looked him steadily in the face. Saxe Leinitzer's agitation was too apparent to be wholly assumed.
"If I were a younger man," he murmured to himself, "I might believe that this woman was really in earnest, as well as being Saxe Leinitzer's jackal. We were friendly enough in Paris that year. She is unscrupulous enough, of course. Always with some odd fancy for the grotesque or unlikely. I wonder " He pulled the check-string, and was driven to Camperdown House.
And, further, though I regret the apparent inhospitality of my action, my finger is now, as you see, upon the bell, and I venture to wish you all a very good-morning. Groves," he added to the servant who answered the door, "the Prince of Saxe Leinitzer's carriage is urgently required." The Prince and Lady Carey descended the broad steps side by side. She was laughing softly but immoderately.
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