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"All right; that's fixed. By the way, Pietro, did you ever see the princess?" Pietro looked into the bowl of his pipe. "No; she not come here; never." "Hum! I should, if I owned a place like this." "Trouble." "Trouble? How?" "I not know. But trouble she come bime-by." "Rats!" There was not a cloud in the sky, so far as O'Mally could see. And what trouble could possibly befall them?
"O'Mally, what's your opinion?" "On what?" "La Signorina," said Worth. "What about her?" "What do you think of her? She's not one of us; she belongs to another class, and the stage is only an incident." "Well, I don't know what to think. I've pumped Killigrew, but she seems to be in the dark with the rest of us.
They might be vain and artificial and always theatrical, but there was nevertheless a warm and generous heart beneath. "Thank you," she said quietly. "If I lose your money we will all go to Florence. I have another plan, but that will keep till this one under hand proves a failure. None of you shall regret your confidence in me." "Pshaw!" said O'Mally. "Nonsense!" said Smith.
No one can call me a coward." "O'Mally!" "That's all right, Worth," said O'Mally. "I wouldn't turn back now for sixty-seven jails. You need not join." "I shan't desert you in a strait like this," remarked Worth quietly. "Only, I think La Signorina rather cruel to force such a situation upon us, when it was entirely unnecessary. Put me against the correspondence."
They had now lived in the Villa Ariadne for two weeks, a careless, thoughtless, happy-go-lucky family. The gossip might have looked askance at them; but La Signorina would not have cared and the others would not have thought. Every afternoon at two o'clock O'Mally and the ancient gardener would get together and give each other lessons, the one in English and the other in Italian.
O'Mally paled slightly. "That," touching his cap respectfully, "is her Highness, La Principessy d' Monty Bianchy, the owner of the Villa Ariadne." Ha! He had them here. The tourists stared at the balcony. A real live princess! They no longer regretted the two lire fifty. This was something worth while. "We did not know that the princess lived here." "It is but a temporary visit.
"If it's a plan which needs no investments, all well and good. But, on my word, I wouldn't dare advance another cent." Smith's brow wore many wrinkles. "Nor I," said O'Mally. "Positively, no," added Worth. O'Mally mused. "A bill from your tailor will reach you here in eight days, but money! Looks as if they had sent it via Japan."
I should have known nothing about it if it hadn't been for old Pietro." "What has happened?" asked Merrihew. "Enough," said O'Mally laconically. He directed his next words to La Signorina. "You are sure of this friend of yours, the princess?" "Certainly," answered La Signorina, her astonishment increasing. "She gave you the right authority?" "Absolutely," more and more astonished.
And no letters at Cook's this morning." "Oh, if worst comes to worst, the American consul will forward us to New York. I'm not going to borrow any trouble." And Worth in his turn found employment in the carpet patterns. Presently he got up briskly. "I'm going down to the office." "Bureau," corrected O'Mally. "Bureau. There might be a note or something." Worth smiled.
Come, Kitty, we must be going. I know that I can rely upon you gentlemen to enter with full spirit into the adventure." "We are all crazy, but who cares?" O'Mally cried. But he trembled in his boots, and thought vainly of a certain comfortable chop-house on old Broadway. The three men bowed ceremoniously.
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