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He stared before him with wide-opened eyes and began to cough and to choke as if suffocating dying. Sir Brian Malpas leapt to his feet with an exclamation of concern. His visitor weakly waved him away, gasping: "It is nothing... it will... pass off. Oh! mon dieu!"... Sir Brian ran and opened one of the windows to admit more air to the apartment.
"There was no such there as one named Bruno de Malpas, I suppose?" asked Licorice, with assumed carelessness. "No, there was no knight of that name." But in her heart Belasez felt that the name belonged to the priest, Father Bruno. A few more questions were asked her, of no import, and then they rose.
He sat down and propped the letter against the inkstand and stared at the address in her careless hand: "The Right Honourable Sir Cloud Malpas, Baronet." She had written the address in full like that as a last stroke of sarcasm. And she had not even put "Private." He was dizzy, nearly stunned; his head rang. Then he rose and went to the window.
The introduction from Sir Brian Malpas had worked wonders, without doubt; and his own intimate knowledge of the establishment adjoining the Boulevard Beaumarchais, far from arousing the suspicions of Gianapolis, had evidently strengthened the latter's conviction that he had to deal with a confirmed opium slave.
Mr. discovered this fact in an old memoir of the ancient and once famous family to which the young knight Albert belonged, and which came, alas! to so shameful an end, the Fletwodes, Barons of Fletwode and Malpas. What a triumph over pretty Lily Mordaunt, who always chose to imagine that the tomb must be that of some heroine of her own romantic invention!
Belmont are now writing a new melodrama, and as they have both been travelling, but not together, I expect that these telegrams relate to that melodrama. Did you suppose that safe-burglars wire their plans to each other like this? He waved the telegram with a gesture of fatigue. Silly, ruined Nina made no answer. 'Do you ever read the papers the Telegraph or the Mail, Miss Malpas? 'N-no, sir.
"Then hear the truth, Bruno de Malpas; and if it well-nigh break an old man's heart to tell it, it is better that I should suffer and die for God's sake than that I should live for mine. On one point, Licorice deceived thee to the last. And until now, I, even I, have aided her in duping thee.
'Calls himself, Miss Malpas? 'Here's one of the telegrams. Mr. Reuben read it, looked at little Nina, and smiled; he never laughed. 'Is it possible, Miss Malpas, said he, 'that you don't know who Mr. Belmont and Mr. Pank are? And then, as she shook her head, he continued in his impassive, precise way: 'Mr. Belmont is one of the principal theatrical managers in the United States. Mr.
Mr. discovered this fact in an old memoir of the ancient and once famous family to which the young knight Albert belonged, and which came, alas! to so shameful an end, the Fletwodes, Barons of Fletwode and Malpas. What a triumph over pretty Lily Mordaunt, who always chose to imagine that the tomb must be that of some heroine of her own romantic invention!
"Worse!" Licorice seemed wide awake enough now. "Why, what could there be worse, unless she had married a Christian, or had abjured her faith?" "Wife, this is worse. She has seen him." "De Malpas?" The name was almost hissed from the lips of Licorice. "The same. It was to be, Licorice. Adonai knows why! But it is evident they were fated to meet." "What did the viper tell her?"
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