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You're engaged to Norvin Blake." "Oh, yes, among the others." Bernie was too miserable to voice the indignation which such flippancy evoked in him. He merely said: "Norvin isn't like the others. It's different with him; he compromised you," "Yes. It was rather nice of him, but do you think he'll care to continue our engagement after this?" "Oh, he's known about Felicite for a long time.
They dragged him, still protesting, from his den as dogs drag an animal from its burrow. But Norvin had learned something. That momentary wavering glance, that flitting light of doubt and fear, had told him that to the cobbler the name of Cardi meant something real and terrible. Back at headquarters O'Neil had further information for him. "We've got Larubio's brother-in-law, Caspardo Cressi.
I'm giving this box-party for you, Myra Nell." "Oh, you could come, too." "I respect the law," Norvin told her; but Lecompte continued to complain. "I don't see what you're doing here at this time of day, anyhow, Blake, Have you no business responsibilities?" "I'm a member of the Contagion Club; I've a right to be here."
The first of these carried a shotgun, which dropped into the gutter as he slipped and fell. The weapon and the suit of clothes Normando had worn were produced and identified. It transpired that this witness knew Paul Rafiro well, and for that reason had refused to tell what he knew until Norvin Blake had come to him and forced the words from his lips.
He is a greater scoundrel than that Judas. Perhaps you you are a great friend of the family perhaps you might force the wolf to disgorge. Eh? What do you say? A word would do it. You will save his life in all probability." "Very well, I'll speak to him, and meanwhile here is something to please you." Norvin handed the old ruffian a gold coin, greatly to his delight.
The Colonel extended his hand, and Norvin took it, feeling some relief in the knowledge that there was at least one man close to the girl upon whose caution he could rely and upon whose good offices he could count. He had grown to like the soldier during their brief acquaintance, and the fact that Neri knew and appreciated the situation helped to reconcile him to the thought of going away.
He was full of the gossip of the countryside, moreover, and Norvin learned much of interest about Sicily and the disposition of her people. One phenomenon to which the good man referred with the extremest wonder was Blake's intimacy with a Sicilian nobleman.
All in all, therefore, the little man was in an agreeable frame of mind to-day as he strolled up Canal Street, nodding here and there to his acquaintances, and turned into Blake's office. He entered without announcing himself, and Norvin greeted him cordially.
"Where is Madame la Branche?" Norvin asked. "Asleep. And Cousin Montegut is playing solitaire in the library." "Then who has the smallpox?" "The cook! They took her screaming to the pest-house an hour after I came. I shall be the next victim; I feel it. We're shut up here for a week, maybe longer. Think of that! There's nothing to do, nobody to talk to, nothing to look at.
While she seemed wholly admirable, she exercised a damnable effect upon Norvin. He was tortured by a thousand devils, he was possessed by dreams and fancies hitherto strange and unrecognized. The nervous strain began to tell in time; he slept little, he grew weary of the struggle, things became unreal and distorted.
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