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We were alone in less than a minute. Mrs. Van Reinberg established herself in a low wicker chair, and I took up my position within a few feet of her, leaning against the wooden rail. "I am entirely at your service, Mrs. Van Reinberg," I declared. "What is it to be about Adele?" "No! not Adele," she answered. "I leave you and Adele to arrange your own affairs.
Van Reinberg alone I have been able to offer the name she desired. That, I think, you will none of you object to, for it is through Mrs. Van Reinberg that you are all here to-night. For the rest, I have taken five of the great names of France, of whom to-day there are no direct descendants. It is for you yourselves to say how these shall be allotted."
"Paris, to me, means the Grand Hotel, the American bar, the telephone and an interpreter. Mrs. Van Reinberg will stay at the Ritz. I guess I sleep there and that's all. No! sir!
There was an intense silence, and then a perfect babel of exclamations. "Marquise de Lafoudre! My, isn't that fine!" "Comtesse de St. Estien! Well, I declare!" "Comtesse de Vinoy. Say, Richard, are you listening? Madame la Comtesse de Vinoy. Great, isn't it!" Mrs. Van Reinberg smiled upon them all the well-satisfied smile of one whose guerdon is deservedly greater than these.
I drew it from my pocket. Guest came and looked over my shoulder. Half-way down the list he pointed to a name. "Mr. de Valentin and valet!" he murmured. "That is our friend. I recognize the name. He has used it before! Now let us see." Again his forefinger travelled down the list again it paused. "Mrs. Van Reinberg, and the Misses Van Reinberg!
Van Reinberg turned away with a laugh, and settled herself down into the little nest of rugs which her maid had prepared. "You young people can walk about, if you like," she said. "I am going to be comfortable. My cigarette case, Annette, and electric lamp. I shall read for half an hour." She dismissed us all. Adele and I moved away as though by common consent.
"Most certainly I am, Mr. Van Reinberg," I declared, "with one reservation, and that is that nothing is proposed which is inimical to my country. I presume that I may take that for granted?" "You may," Mr. Van Reinberg answered shortly. "We are not such fools as to run up against the old country.
Gradually the situation became clear to me. Mrs. Van Reinberg desired to reserve the whole interest of Mr. de Valentin for herself and her daughters; he, on the other hand, had shown signs of a partiality for Adele. The fates were certainly working for me. On the third night out we were all together on deck after dinner. I was standing near Mrs.
She rebuked me with a glance, which was also wonderfully sweet. "Some one will hear you," she whispered. I shook my head. "Every one is too busy talking about the mysteries to come," I declared. She shrugged her dazzlingly white shoulders. "Perhaps even you," she murmured, "may take them more seriously some day." A few minutes later Mrs. Van Reinberg rose.
Van Reinberg," I said slowly; "but you must please remember that I am an Englishman." "Oh! we don't want to hurt your old country," she declared. "I consider that for all the talk about kinship, and all that sort of thing, she treats us I mean women like myself disgracefully. But that's neither here nor there. I've finished with England for the present.
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