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You have heard of Madame Omber, eh?" Now by Roddy's expression it was plain that, if Madame Omber's name wasn't strange in his hearing, at least he found this news about her most surprising. He was frankly staring, with a slackened jaw and with stupefaction in his blank blue eyes.
"First you must see me home to save my life, and then you tell me your inclinations consign me to a premature grave. Is there an explanation, possibly?" "On your person," said the Count, sententious. "Eh?" "You carry your reason with you, my friend in the shape of the Omber loot." "Assuming you are right "
He had probably been followed and seen to enter; or else the girl had been caught attempting to steal away and the information wrung from her by force majeure.... Moreover, he could hear two more pair of feet tramping through the salons. Pending the arrival of these last, Madame Omber said nothing more.
For the present, however, Lanyard wasn't taking any. He met that challenge with a look of utter stupidity, folded his arms, lounged against the desk, and watched Madame Omber acknowledge, none too cordially, the other sergent's query. "I am Madame Omber yes. What can I do for you?" The sergent gaped. "Pardon!" he stammered, then laughed as one who tardily appreciates a joke.
Hedin was no unwelcome guest in the houses of gentlefolks, and he was often seen at the judge's and the pastor's omber parties. And for all this Bjarne Blakstad only hated him the more.
Come on then, that mirth may be used, let the Cards also be brought in sight; which formerly, out of a Puritanical humour, ought not to have been seen in a house; nay, not so much as to have been spoken of; but now every one knows how to play artificially at Put, all Fours, Omber, Pas la Bete, Bankerout, and all other games that the expertest Gamesters can play at.
Indeed, he had prided himself on conducting his operations with a degree of circumspection unusually thorough-going, even for him. Yet he was unable to rid himself of those misgivings roused by De Morbihan's declaration that the theft of the Omber jewels had been accomplished only at cost of a clue to the thief's identity.
He caught her quick glance of enquiry, and met it with a confident nod as he placed between them the morocco-bound jewel-case. "In London, yesterday," he said quietly, "I brought off two big coups. One was deliberate, the other the inspiration of a moment. The one I'd planned for months was the theft of the Omber jewels here."
It is the age of omber, of sonnets to Chloe's false ringlets, of odes to red heels and epics to lap dogs, of tinseled struttings in gilded drawing-rooms.
I can't imagine how you reckon to declare yourself in on the Omber loot." "All in good time: if you were wise, you'd hand the stuff over to me here and now, and accept what I chose to give you in return. But inasmuch as you're the least wise of men, you must have your lesson." "Meaning ?" "The night brings counsel: you'll have time to think things over.
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