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"It was not my affair, and in your position I can conceive that there may be many reasons for your desiring to travel incognito." He smiled a little wearily. "Yet it would tax your ingenuity, I imagine," he continued, "to account for my travelling in company with Mrs. Van Reinberg and her daughters." "It is not my affair," I answered.
"His scheme is ingenious enough," I said, "and I believe it is quite true that there are a great many people in France who would be glad to see the Monarchy revived. They are a people, too, whom it is easy to catch on the top of a wave of sentiment. But, so far as I can see, there are at least two things against him." "I trust," Mr. Van Reinberg murmured, "that they are big enough."
"I can assure you, Mrs. Van Reinberg " I began. "Now listen here, Mr. Courage," she interrupted. "I'm not the sort of woman to complain at what I don't try to alter. What's the good of having a husband whose nod is supposed to shake the money markets of the world, if you don't make use of him?" I nodded sagely. "You are quite right," I said.
The Prince's identity was an open secret, but his incognito was jealously observed. "I wonder," she said slowly, looking for the first time directly towards me, "whether you have ever seriously considered the question of the American woman such as myself, for instance!" I was a little puzzled, and no doubt I looked it. Mrs. Van Reinberg proceeded calmly.
"You're not lost," Mr. Reinberg said, laughing again. "You're quite a way from home, though, for I have been going very fast. But I'll take care of you. Now let me see what I had better do. I have to go on to Wayville, and I don't want to turn around and go back with you youngsters. And if I take you with me your folks will worry. "I know what I'll do.
Answer your own question, Mr. Courage! It should not be an impossible task." Six ladies leaned forward in their places, and looked at me with flashing eyes. It was a suitable triumph for Mr. de Valentin. And yet I knew now all that I desired. Dimly I began to understand the great plot, and all that it meant. Mr. Van Reinberg looked across the table. "Well, Stern?" he asked.
Reinberg laughed again. "And have you been in there ever since?" he asked. "Yes," Bunny replied. "We were playing steamboat, and we lay down to go to sleep while we went over the make-believe ocean waves. Then, when we woke up, and couldn't see our house " "Or any houses," added Sue. "Or any houses," Bunny went on, "why why, we thought we were " "Lost!" exclaimed Sue. "We don't like to be lost!"
Courage, but I hope you'll believe me when I tell you this: I'd sooner chuck ten or twenty millions into the Atlantic than be mixed up with this affair." "I believe you, Mr. Van Reinberg," I answered. He drew a sigh of relief. I think that my assurance pleased him. "Tell me now," he said; "you are a man of common sense. Is that fellow a crank, or is he going to pull this thing off?" I hesitated.
Bunny and Sue did not have time to pay a visit to their Uncle Henry, but Mr. Reinberg bought them each an ice cream soda, so they had a fine time after all. Then came a nice ride home. "Well, well!" cried Mrs. Brown, when Bunny and Sue, their cheeks red from the wind, came running up the front walk. "Well! well! But you youngsters do have the funniest things happen to you!
I should like to say, however, that it would give me very much pleasure to be admitted to your conference, and any advice I might be able to offer as an impartial person would be entirely at your service." Mrs. Van Reinberg whispered for a moment with her husband, who then leaned over towards me. "Mr. Courage," he said, "I believe you to be a person of common sense.
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