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"I deny nothing," said Susie, proudly, and she looked the duchess unflinchingly in the face. Cranford walked straight over to the Prince of Markeld. "Wasn't it Miss Rushford who told you?" he asked. "No, it was the note," answered the Prince, fiercely.
"Wait a minute," interrupted Rushford. "Don't go too fast. Come here, Susie, and help me to understand." Could Sue, as she came forward, have seen the gaze which Prince Frederick bent upon her, her heart might have relented a little toward him; but she did not see she had eyes only for her father. "Now go ahead," said he, when he had his arm safely around her, "and be careful, sir," he added.
Rushford signed his name mechanically, dropped a franc into the itching palm, and waited till the messenger went out. Then he looked at the address on the envelope. It was: Proprietor Grand Hôtel Royal, Weet-sur-Mer. "Well," he said, "it's mine I guess there's no question of that I'm the proprietor pro tem," and he tore the envelope open. A low whistle escaped him as he read the message.
"I'll attend to all that," and he beckoned to Pelletan with his finger and whispered a rapid sentence in his ear. "What did you say to him, dad?" inquired Sue, gazing in some astonishment after their host's retreating coat-tails. "I told him to go 'way back and sit down," answered Rushford, going calmly on with his meal. "Dad, is it true that Lord Vernon is to arrive to-morrow morning?"
"I was told this afternoon," added Rushford, grimly, "that he was probably staying here at my expense." "Eet iss not so!" cried Pelletan, his eyes flashing. "I pay for heem efery tay I charge myself mit' twenty franc for hees account." "But what on earth for?" demanded Rushford. "What have you done robbed a bank or committed murder?"
Rushford dropped into one of the two chairs, got out a cigar, lighted it, and sat for some moments looking around at this wilderness of gimcracks. "Pelletan, you're a humbug," he said at last. "You came to me yesterday and said your last franc was gone." "Unt so it wass, monsieur." "But this collection ought to be worth something." "Monsieur means t'at it might pe sold?" "Undoubtedly."
Rushford would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father's, as well as insure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushford if she could." The egocentric worldliness of this is superb.
And I've been rather itching to apply my boot to his coat-tails. I thought he was a cheap actor a ten, twenty, thirty, as we say in America. Do you suppose Pelletan knows him?" "Oh, undoubtedly! He's probably boarding him for nothing. These French police have a way with them." Rushford bit his moustache savagely and resolved to have an explanation with Monsieur Pelletan. The car stopped.
Come forward, Tellier." "Oh, I understand," and Rushford laughed, not pleasantly. "No, I didn't tell you, Susie," he added, catching his daughter's astonished glance. "It was merely an escapade of mine. I was bored, and so I arranged with Pelletan to have a little fun by backing the hotel for a month Pelletan had reached the end of his resources.
"The only title we Americans care about," responded Rushford, slowly, "is that of gentleman. My daughter's husband need have no other but he must have that. We don't give our daughters away, sir, as I've already explained to " Susie pinched his arm viciously in an agony of alarm. Then she pulled his head down to her, her eyes shining, and whispered a quick sentence in his ear.
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