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Logotheti, having meanwhile made the upper door perfectly secure, descended by the open staircase to the hall, and sent the first footman he met to call the butler, with whom he said he wished to speak. The butler came at once. 'Lady Maud asked me to see those three men, said Logotheti in a low tone. 'Mr.
Madame De Rosa watched him in silence, but Margaret paid no attention to what he was doing, for she was accustomed to see Mrs. Rushmore do the same thing. The taste of servants for liqueur and cigars is quite irreproachable; they always take the best there is. A few minutes later the three were on their way to Versailles, and before long Logotheti put Margaret down at Mrs.
The author's large, grave features relaxed in a smile of amusement as he nodded his approval of the plan. 'We do not represent the press, answered the man. 'Ah! Indeed? How very odd! But of course Logotheti pretended to understand suddenly 'how stupid of me! No doubt you are from the bank. Am I not right? 'No. You are mistaken. We are not from Threadneedle Street.
But Constantine Logotheti shrugged his shoulders and said it was a mere copy, nothing but a clever facsimile, carved and chipped and stained by a couple of Italian marble-cutters, whose business it was to manufacture antiquities for the American market and whom any one could engage to work in any part of the world for twenty francs a day and their expenses.
One day Logotheti gave him a cigarette more than usual, as an experiment, but he went to sleep almost immediately, sitting up in his chair. The opium, as a moderate substitute for liquor, temporarily restored the habitual tone of his system and revived his natural self-control, and Logotheti soon gave up the idea of extracting any secret from him in a moment of garrulous expansion.
A moment later she was driving away at a smart pace, sitting bolt upright and looking straight before her, her lips pressed tight together, while Lushington walked briskly in the opposite direction. It had all happened in a moment, in a sort of despairing hurry. Constantine Logotheti had at least two reasons for not going out to Versailles as soon as Mrs. Rushmore signified her desire to know him.
I should have to find some other way. 'Shall we go on? Margaret asked. 'I shall be late for the rehearsal. 'Give it up, suggested Logotheti calmly. 'We'll spend the morning at St. Cloud. Much pleasanter than tiring yourself out in that wretched theatre! I want to talk to you. 'You can talk to me when I am not singing. 'No.
She wondered very much what his nationality might be, for his accent had told her that he was not French. After a little pause he turned his head quietly and spoke to her. 'Our friend's introduction was a little vague, he said. 'My name is Constantine Logotheti. I am a Greek of Constantinople by birth, or what we call a Fanariote there.
'Yes. Surely you know that in France young people are often engaged to be married when they have never seen each other at all. 'That is arranged for them by their parents, objected Margaret. 'Whereas we can arrange the matter for ourselves, Logotheti said. 'It's more dignified, and far more independent. Isn't it? 'I suppose so I hardly know. 'Oh yes, it is! You cannot deny it.
But Logotheti, who knew something of men, and had dealt with some very accomplished experts in fraud from New York and London to Constantinople, had his doubts about the truth of what he had heard, and understood at once why the usually reticent American had talked so much about himself.
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