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We'll ask if there is any mail for Kitty Killigrew." But there wasn't, nor had there been; and the name was not on the forwarding books. "Looks as if your Kitty were the needle in the haystack." "Hang the luck!" Merrihew jammed his hands into his pockets and sulked with the world. "It is evident that Kitty will not have you." "Cut it!" savagely.
Merrihew leaned against the wall, uneasy and wishing himself anywhere but here. Tender and generous, he hated the sight of pain. They were talking in Italian, but intuitively he translated. What a devil of a world it was! Giovanni made his daughter sit down again, patted her cheeks, then pushed his friends into another room, closing the door.
Sometimes he rode past the Villa Ariadne, but he never stopped. He could not bring himself to enter those confines again alone. In the meantime he had received a cable from Merrihew, stating that he and Mrs. Merrihew would be at home after September. He read the line many times. Good old Dan! He was right; it took patience and persistence to win a woman.
She took the card from Kitty's fingers, tore it into many pieces and flung them over the wall. "We have been betrayed!" she cried, a storm in her eyes. "Betrayed?" O'Mally looked at Smith; Hillard stared at Merrihew; Kitty regarded La Signorina with wonder. "Betrayed? In what manner?" asked Hillard. "Her Highness has had no hand in this. I know. Some one with malice has done this petty thing."
Which of the two meanings she offered him was lost upon Merrihew; he saw but one, nor the covert glance, roguish and mischievous withal. "Come, let us be sensible for ten minutes." Merrihew laid his watch on the bench beside him. Kitty dimpled. "Don't you love it in Florence?" she asked. "Oh, yes," scraping the gravel with his crop. "Hillard says I'm finishing my bally education at a canter.
So, with the inevitable black cigar between his teeth, Merrihew sauntered off toward the billiard-room, while Hillard picked up his letter and studied it. His fingers trembled slightly as he tore open the envelope. The handwriting, the paper, the modest size, all these pointed to a woman of culture and refinement. But a subtle spirit of irony pervaded it all.
The soubrette and the prima donna! He closed the shutters, for the Neapolitan is naturally a thief, and an open window is as large as a door to him. He packed his cases, and this done, went to bed. For a time he could hear Merrihew in the adjoining room; but even this noise ceased.
No, the official there told him, he had not noticed the lady in the veil. So many passed; it was impossible to recollect. And Merrihew found him sitting disconsolately on the barricade. "I hope you are perfectly satisfied," said Hillard, with an amiability which wouldn't have passed muster anywhere. "Oh, I'm satisfied," answered Merrihew.
I am a man not to be held in the leash of an adventure like this; but she held me. How? By the hope that one day I might see her face, with no veil of mystery to hold her off at arm's length." Merrihew was greatly excited. He was for ordering a second bottle, but Hillard stayed him. "By George! And you are sure that it was at the Sandfords'?" "I am positive.
Merrihew had never heard of the town of Ventimiglia, which straddles the frontiers of France and Italy. As they were boarding the train they noticed two gentlemen getting into the forward compartment of the carriage. "Humph! Our friend with the scar," said Hillard. "We do not seem able to shake him." "I'd like to shake him. He goes against the grain, somehow." Merrihew swung into the compartment.
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