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That Ravengar was absolutely sincere in his desire to marry Camilla he did not doubt, and he fully shared the frenzied man's determination that Camilla should not marry Francis Tudor. But beyond this Hugo did not go. He certainly did not go so far as to believe that Camilla had ever formally engaged herself to Ravengar.
As you tempted me into the vault, so I tempted you here on your way to the vault. 'But she is alive all the same! Ravengar persisted. 'It is the fact that she is not dead that makes me less unwilling to die, for a word from her might send me to a death more shameful than the one you have so kindly arranged for me.
It was indeed Louis Ravengar. Dishevelled, fatigued, and unstrung, he formed a sinister contrast to Hugo, fresh from repose, cold water and music, and also to the spirit of the beautiful summer morning itself, which at that unspoilt hour seemed always to sojourn for a space in the belvedere.
Still, Ravengar happened to be the man I wanted to deal with, and so I didn't let any stupid resentment on my part stop me from dealing with him. He was a scoundrel, but he played the game, I may incidentally mention. I venture to give this frank opinion about one of your most important clients, because he'll be dead before you read this, Polycarp. At least, I expect so.
You talk like a man at his wits' end. There was a silence. 'I am a man at his wits' end, Ravengar murmured, half sadly. 'I trusted that girl. She knows all my secrets. 'What secrets? asked Hugo, struck by the phrase. 'My business secrets, of course. What else do you fancy? 'My fancy is too active, said Hugo, with careful casualness. 'It runs away with me.
You have corrupted many of my servants to-day. But you didn't corrupt all of them. And because you didn't, because you couldn't, I am alive. You would like to know how I got out. But you will never know, Ravengar. You will die without knowing. Ravengar put his hands in his pockets. 'I can only assume that you are going mad, Owen, said he. 'I have long guessed that you were.
After that Ravengar had pestered her to marry him had even said that he would be content with a purely formal marriage; had offered her enormous sums to agree to his proposal; and had been constantly repulsed by her. She admitted to me that he had appeared to be violently in love with her, but that his motive in wanting marriage was to prevent her from giving evidence against him.
And Hugo did not feel inclined to ask questions; he preferred to reconnoitre in person. He was Hugo before he was Camilla's lover. He would be a tradesman for yet another ten hours. He had a duty to London.... Then Ravengar wandered into his thoughts and confused them. Just as he was assuming his waistcoat, Simon entered. 'Mr. Galpin, sir. 'And who the d -l is Mr. Galpin? asked Hugo. 'Mr.
Ravengar happens to be a client of mine, but after to-night he will be so no longer. What he wants done in this flat I cannot guess, but it's an absolute certainty that you're in for three years' penal, my friend. 'Let me pass, the man repeated, lifting his jaw, 'or I'll blow your brains out! He produced his revolver. 'Oh no, you won't, said Polycarp coldly. 'You daren't.
She then told me, after confessing that she had caught Ravengar hiding in the dressing-room, and had actually suspected that I had been in league with him against her, that long ago she had by accident seen Ravengar commit a crime. She would not tell me what crime; she would give me no particulars. Still, I gathered that, if not actually murder, it was at least homicide.
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