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Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, sitting down in the back part of the automobile, with the blanket around them, got through pretending they were asleep on a make-believe ship, and "woke up." They had felt the car moving, but they thought nothing of this, for they imagined Mr. Reinberg was taking them to their house so they might ask their mother if they could go for a ride.
I hope that I have not unwillingly been the cause of any unpleasantness?" Mrs. Van Reinberg was a little embarrassed. She hesitated, and dropped her voice a little in answering me. "Since you have mentioned it, Mr. Courage," she said, "I will treat you confidentially. Mr. de Valentin has shown a desire to become an admirer of my stepdaughter.
Courage," she said, "I think it only right that I should let you know that Mr. de Valentin strongly objects to your presence at our meeting to-night." "I am very sorry to hear it," I answered. "May I ask upon what grounds?" "He seems to imagine," she declared, "that you are not trustworthy." Mr. de Valentin hastily intervened. "My dear Mrs. Van Reinberg!" he exclaimed.
"As regards the latter," I said after a pause, "I can not take you seriously. Besides, it is very unlikely that my servant would accompany me to Lenox. If my presence there would be an embarrassment, I really do not see why Mrs. Van Reinberg asked me." "She did so thoughtlessly," Mr. de Valentin answered. "Her reasons were tolerably clear to me, perhaps to you.
On the contrary, Mr. de Valentin has assured us that his scheme has a little more than the moral support of your government." Mr. de Valentin intervened with a little gesture of excitement. "No!" he exclaimed, "I do not. I must not go so far as that. I do not mention any government by name." "Quite right," Mr. Van Reinberg assented, "but the fact's there all the same.
"My husband's cheque is ready," the lady at his side answered quickly. "I guess the Prince can have it right now, if he chooses." "And mine!" five other ladies declared almost in a breath. Mr. Van Reinberg smiled. "Then I guess the deal is fixed," he remarked. A dark-haired, little woman, sitting at my right hand, leaned forward towards Mr. de Valentin.
I asked anxiously. "No! not that," she answered. "Of course, you are right. Only I have been a little mad, and I dreamed a beautiful dream. It is all impossible, of course; but I don't feel like bridge or my stepmother's questions. Say I am coming up again. It will save trouble!" I played bridge later with Mrs. Van Reinberg for a partner.
She accepted my escort to the door, and bade Mr. de Valentin a cold good-night. "I hope you will understand, Mr. Courage," she said, as we shook hands, "that I shall expect you at Lenox. You won't disappoint us?" "There isn't the faintest chance that I shall do so, Mrs. Van Reinberg," I answered. "I have the best of reasons for wishing to come." She smiled at me encouragingly.
Consequently, when she swept out on to the sunny piazza, where a little party of us were busy discussing our plans for the day, we all turned towards her expectantly. We might propose, but Mrs. Van Reinberg would surely dispose. We waited to hear what she might have to say. "I want to talk to Mr. Courage," she declared. "All the rest of you go away!" They obeyed her at once.
Nevertheless, when Abe caught sight of Mr. Griesman lolling in one of the hotel's capacious fauteuils he quickly looked the other way and passed on to the clerk's desk. Then he asked in a loud tone for Mr. Elkan Reinberg, of Boonton, New Jersey; and, almost before the clerk told him that no such person was registered, he turned about and recognized Mr. Griesman with an elaborate start.
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