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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Try to be pleasant for once in your life. Better let me talk to him." But at this suggestion Mrs. Knight flared up angrily. "You stay where you are!" she snapped. "I know how to handle rich people." "Mathilda," he shouted, as she hurried from the room, her slippers slapping loosely, a discolored wrapper clutched over her bony chest, "when he talks about Lorelei, cry for him.
The clouds which had here gathered among the hills now came over the river, and the rain cleared the deck of its crowd of admiring tourists. As we were approaching Lorelei Berg, I did not go below, and so enjoyed some of the finest scenery on the Rhine alone. The mountains approach each other at this point, and the Lorelei rock rises up for four hundred and forty feet from the water.
Lorelei would have preferred a different location, not particularly desiring to be near Lilas; but there was no time in which to look about, and the necessity that faced her made any assistance welcome. Without more discussions she agreed, and the two girls rode up-town together.
With Bob and Lorelei estranged, a divorce would follow, and divorces were profitable. A divorce, moreover, would open the way for a second inroad upon the Wharton wealth, for with Lorelei's skirts clear Jim could proceed with a larger scheme of extortion, based on the Hammon murder.
There is a later and more popular legend of the Lorelei than the foregoing. According to this tale Lorelei was a maiden of surpassing beauty who dwelt in the town of Bacharach in medieval times. So potent were her attractions that every gallant on whom her eye rested fell hopelessly in love with her, while her ever-widening fame drew suitors in plenty from all parts of the country.
There was a brief scuffle, a whirl of flying arms, then Bergman's voice rose in a strangely muffled howl, followed by nasal curses. With a bellow of anguish he suddenly ceased his struggles, and Lorelei saw that Bob was holding him by the nose.
Thompson-Bellaire beckoned, and Wharton came forward, his eyes fixed gloomily upon Lorelei. "You rascal! So THIS is how you waste your evenings. I AM surprised, but, now that we've caught you, won't you join us?" Wharton glanced at the four pawns and hesitated. "It's long past nine; I'm afraid the boys will be late for school."
Lorelei herself occupied no mean station in the new scheme, for at least she shared the confidence of the nurse and the doctor, and ranked above the cook and the housemaid, but not so Bob. Somewhere at the foot of the list he found his own true place. Now, strange to say, this novel arrangement was extremely agreeable to the deposed ruler.
Not yet, at least. I can't see HIM go to jail." "Jail? There won't be any jail to this there never is. Jarvis will have to settle for the sake of the rest of us." Hammon's limousine rolled in under the porte-cochere, and a moment later the owner appeared with Lilas. Lorelei stared at her friend in genuine surprise, for it was obvious that Lilas was deeply agitated.
He " She dropped her hands in a gesture of resignation. "What's the use? You know the kind of man he is." "Go on." Lilas began to weep silently, rocking her body to and fro. "It's just my luck when I had another chance, too! I don't care for my own sake, but I do love Lorelei; and you've certainly been a prince, Bob." "Good Lord! Max can't insist on your giving yourself up. Why, that's absurd!"
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