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Maxine exclaimed. "It will be better to do so. I know that it will make it easier for you to help me. The document you were bringing me was a treaty a quite new treaty between Japan, Russia and France: not a copy, but the original. England had been warned that there was a secret understanding between the three countries, unknown to her. There was no time to make a copy.
You're shocked to hear what my inner life has been?" "If I were shocked, no doubt the feeling would be more than half conventional. One hardly knows how conventional one's opinions are until one stops to think," said I. "Once, I gloried in the work," Maxine went on. "But that was before I fell in love. You and I have played a little at being in love, but that was to pass the time.
It was often nine o'clock before the last straggling diner, sprawling on the parlour davenport with his evening paper and cigar, departed, leaving Maxine to pick up the scattered newspapers, cigarette butts, ashes; straighten chairs, lock doors. Then the dishes. The dishes! When Arnold Hatch asked her to go to a movie she shook her head, usually. "I'm too tired. I'm going to read, in bed."
"A personage, yes," the boy admitted, "but that is not the point. The point is that he was a man of ideas, who understood the body and the soul. A man who trained a child in every outdoor sport until it was one with nature, and then taught it to entrap nature and bend her to the uses of art. He was very great my father!" "He is dead?" "Yes; he is dead. He died the year before Maxine married."
Accordingly I waited, and it was well I did, for as they reappeared in three or four minutes they could not have gone far enough to be out of sight from the gate. "There's witchcraft in it," Maxine said, as she and her lover passed within a few yards of me, where I hid behind a little arbour. Du Laurier's answer was lost to me, but his voice sounded despondent.
Even in the hallway of Blake's house she did not stop to question, but mounted the stairs and knocked upon his door, regardless of the stormy beating of her heart, the faintness of anticipation that encompassed her. A moment passed a moment or a century; then he was before her, appealing to the innermost recesses of her being. He stared at her, as one might stare upon a ghost. "Maxine!"
"Have I misjudged you?" Max nodded seriously. "You have. She has made me realize." "Ah! That was like her!" It was Blake's turn to walk to the window; and the boy, watching him eagerly, was unable to place the constraint that suddenly tinged his voice, suddenly veiled his manner. "Ned," he was urged to say, "tell me! Has she brought us nearer together my sister Maxine?"
"Unless? but I know what you mean to threaten. You repeat yourself." "Not quite, for I have new arguments, and stronger ones. I want you, Maxine. I mean to have you or I will crush you, and now you know I can. Choose." I sprang up, and looked at him. Perhaps there was murder in my eyes, as for a moment there was in my heart, for he exclaimed: "Tigeress! You would kill me if you could.
Never had I been caught in a situation which I liked less than finding myself, long after midnight, locked by Maxine de Renzie into her boudoir, while within hearing she did her best to convince her lover that no stranger had come on her account to the house.
I had turned it on in more than one place: and a sudden, brilliant illumination showed me a tall Commissary of Police, with two little gendarmes looking over his shoulder. I threw a glance at Maxine, who was still veiled, and was relieved to see that she had found some means of putting the letter-case out of sight.
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