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Cassy laughed. "I had some yesterday with Ma Tamby. They did not seem to agree with her. She became very noisy about a Mrs. Beamish. Who is she?" "Mrs. Beamish?" Paliser repeated. He also had forgotten. But, with a click, memory raised a latch. From behind it the lady emerged. "Oh, she's a cousin of mine."
To her the dream had been the dream of a dream, realisable only on the top rungs of the operatic ladder, which, later, she felt she was not destined to scale. None the less there are dreams that do come true, though usually, beforehand, there is a desert to cross. "I wonder if I might have a cavatina?" Paliser asked, rising and moving to her. Cassy shrugged.
"You are and, incidentally, I am." Cassy withdrew her hand. "I suppose you think you are a host in yourself." "Merely the most fortunate of mortals," replied Paliser, who could be eighteenth-century when he liked, but who seldom bothered to keep it up. Already he had been doing a little inventorying on his own account. The basilica frock did not say much and what it did say was not to his taste.
Over the hill the true knight was hastening and Margaret knew, as we all know, what happened then. It is a very pretty story, but it can be equally sad to a sorrowing girl who has no true knight, or who had one, and who found that he was neither knightly nor true. Paliser misconstrued her silence.
In the present rites, that which wearied Paliser was the recital of the reason of the broken engagement. It was broken, that was the end of it, an end which, in ordinary circumstances, he would have regretted. Ordinarily it would have made the running too easy. The hurdles were gone. There were no sticks, no fences. It would not even have been a race, just a canter.
The fact annoyed and in vexation she piled it on. "Afterward, in this very room, I taxed him with it and he admitted it." What a lie! thought Paliser, who specialised in that article. But, a second thought prompting, he wondered whether it were a lie. His knowledge of Cassy refuted it. At the same time, where women are concerned, you never know. One thing, however, he did know.
Long since, perhaps, at some court of last resort, the Paliser Case had been decided. On the morrow, Jeroloman waited on his client, who received him in the library, an agreeable room in which there was nothing literary, but which succeeded at once in becoming extremely unpleasant. M. P. was in tweeds. When his late lamented departed this life, he wore crêpe on his hat for ninety days.
Flicking his ashes, he looked about and saw two hands, between which, he also saw, he was entirely free to pick and choose. One hand, slight and fragile, was Cassy Cara's. The other, firm and virile, was Lennox'. Lennox had threatened. He had been acidly murderous. He had a motive. He had the opportunity. He knew where Paliser would be. He had been supplied with a seat in that box.
Then suddenly behind her blue smock came a gnawing. She thought she would ask Paliser to have somebody fetch her a sandwich, two sandwiches, or else some bread and butter, but, now that she looked for him, he had gone. She got up, crossed the room and sat down on another chair which was black, probably ebony.
The opera was Aïda. Paliser came in during the third act. The house then is brilliant. But during the fourth the duo in the crypt it is dark. It was then that he was done for and with what is assumed to have been a stiletto. To cut out the account, Jones turned in search of a dagger, long, thin, wicked, which, one adventurous night in Naples, he had found just in time in his back.
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