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Updated: May 1, 2025
The Telemachus came to her moorings in the Tagus, at which for the present we may leave her, on the morning of the day that was to close with Count Redondo's semi-official ball. Lady O'Moy had risen late, taking from one end of the day what she must relinquish to the other, that thus fully rested she might look her best that night. The greater part of the afternoon was devoted to preparation.
I have more than once been upon the point of doing so the last time was that night on the balcony at Count Redondo's. I would have spoken then; I would have taken my courage in my hands, confessed my unworthiness and my love. But I was restrained because, although I might confess, there was nothing I could ask.
Five days had elapsed since the ball at Count Redondo's, where Sir Terence had surprised the pair together in the garden and his suspicions had been fired by the compromising attitude in which he had discovered them. Tremayne's frank, easy bearing, so unassociable with guilt, had, as we know, gone far, to reassure him, and had even shamed him, so that he had trampled his suspicions underfoot.
O'Moy thought of them as he had seen them in the garden on the night of Redondo's ball, remembered the air of transparent honesty by which that damned hypocrite when discovered had deflected his just resentment. Oh, there was no doubt that the treacherous blackguard had been subtle. But by God! subtlety should be repaid with subtlety!
"But meanwhile, on your life, not a word to any one. You understand?" "Of course I understand, my poor Dick." She stooped to kiss him. But he was fast asleep already. She went out and locked the door, and when, on the point of setting out for Count Redondo's, she returned the bunch of keys to Bridget the key of the alcove was missing.
I found him at Redondo's ball last week in the uniform of a Portuguese major, and through him I was able to track down Souza's chief instrument I discovered them closeted with him in one of the card-rooms." "And you didn't arrest them?" "Arrest them! I apologised for my intrusion, and withdrew. La Fleche took his leave of them.
In a small room of Count Redondo's palace, a room that had been set apart for cards, sat three men about a card-table.
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