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"Then, if I were you," Duncan said, "I should make a point of ascertaining, if you can, the personality of this Madame de Melbain." Wrayson nodded. "I shall see her, of course," he said, "and I will do so." "My own idea," Duncan said deliberately, "is that it is in connection with her presence here that the landlord of the inn and the villagers have received these injunctions about strangers.
Louise lives always in the shadow of some mystery, and when I, who surely have the right to know her secrets, beg for her confidence, she refuses it." "And what is it that you wish me to do?" Madame de Melbain asked softly. "To use your influence with Louise," Wrayson pleaded. "Let her give me her confidence, and let her accept from me the shelter of my name."
Even their footsteps fell noiselessly upon the spongy turf. Wrayson spoke at last. They had fallen sufficiently far behind the others to be out of earshot. "Do you know what Madame de Melbain has been saying to me?" he asked. Louise turned her head a little. There was the faintest flicker of a smile about her lips. "I cannot imagine", she declared, looking once more straight ahead.
If Madame de Melbain had anything to say to him, he preferred to afford her the opportunity of an attentive silence. "Louise and I," Madame de Melbain continued, "were school friends. So you see that I have known her all my life. She has had her troubles, as I have! Only mine are a righteous judgment upon me, and hers she has done nothing to deserve.
Wrayson, that I ask you a question. Do you care for her?" "I do!" Wrayson answered simply. "You wish to marry her?" "To-morrow, if she would!" Madame de Melbain leaned a little forward. Her cheeks were still entirely colourless, but some spark of emotion glittered in her full dark eyes. "You will be alone with her presently. Try and persuade her to marry you at once.
Wrayson had an idea, and acted upon it promptly. "Madame de Melbain," he said, "I believe that you have some influence with Louise, I am sure that you are one of those who sympathize with the unfortunate. Can't I bespeak your good offices?" She lowered her parasol to the ground, and leaned a little forward upon it. Her eyes were fixed steadily upon Wrayson. "Go on," she said briefly.
Madame de Melbain reeled and would have fallen. Then for a moment events seemed to leap forward. White and fainting, she lay in the arms of the man who had sprung to her succour, yet through her half-opened eyes there flashed a strange and wonderful light a light of passionate and amazing content.
Louise decided to go and see this man Barnes, to make her way, if she could, into his flat, to search for and, if she could find them, to steal these letters. She carried out her purpose or rather her attempted purpose. The rest you know, for it was you who saved her!" "The man," Wrayson said hoarsely, "was murdered." Madame de Melbain inclined her head. "So I have understood," she remarked.
Louise and Madame de Melbain were talking earnestly together in a corner, and from the look that the latter threw at him as they entered, Wrayson was convinced that in some way he was concerned with the subject of their conversation. It was a look deliberate and scrutinizing, in a sense doubtful, and yet not unkindly.
Louise signed to him to be silent. "Amy was with me when the letters came," Madame de Melbain continued. "She left at once for England to see this man. The sum he demanded was impossible. All that she could do was to ask for time, and to arrange to pay him so much a month whilst we were considering how to raise the money. He accepted this, and promised to keep silence.
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