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He was my discovery and I believed in him. How was it? "The men that breed from them they traffic up and down, but cling to their cities' hem as a child to the mother's gown." Not so E. Rushmore Coglan. With the whole world for his My meditations were interrupted by a tremendous noise and conflict in another part of the cafe.
You mean well, I daresay. But you have no sense. None at all. Margaret laughed and took the opportunity of the lull in the battle to escape to her own room. A moment later Mrs. Rushmore followed her and knocked at the door. 'I'm sure you've had nothing to eat all day, she called out anxiously, before Margaret could answer.
Rushmore; but as the proposal tempted her she found it easy to tell herself that since she was a real artist she could go where she pleased, that people would gossip about her wherever she went, and that what she did was nobody's business. And surely, for an artist, Madame De Rosa was a chaperon of sufficient weight. Moreover, Margaret was curious to see the place where the man lived.
'He used to be always so well dressed! said Mrs. Rushmore to Margaret in an audible whisper. Lushington winced visibly, but as he was not supposed to hear the words he said nothing. William had worked down to the knees of his trousers, which he grasped firmly in one hand while he vigorously brushed the cloth with the other.
To have gone back now would have been to gainsay every instinct and every aspiration she felt. She told Mrs. Rushmore this, as quietly as she could. 'You're quite mad, said Mrs. Rushmore. 'You may say what you please. I maintain that you are quite mad. 'I can't help it, Margaret answered without a smile.
Rushmore could not help looking at it, and in her prim way she wondered how any man who was not an adventurer or a sort of glorified commercial traveller could carry such a thing. There was an unpleasant fascination in the mere look of it, and she watched it move instead of answering. 'Yes? said Logotheti, looking up interrogatively. 'What shall we say?
For the girl herself found it hard to believe half of what the prima donna had told her, and was far from believing that she was on the eve of signing her first engagement. Madame Bonanni had breakfasted at half-past eleven, but Mrs. Rushmore lunched at half-past one, and Margaret found her at table with Lushington and three or four other people who had dropped in.
Logotheti had not made his appearance after all, but the young archæologist had brought assurances that the financier would be honoured, charmed and otherwise delighted to be presented to Mrs. Rushmore within a day or two, if convenient to her. So it happened that Logotheti made his first visit after Lushington had left Versailles.
There were people coming to luncheon, and it was just possible that she might be one of them; but if she was not, and if the others came and found such a person there, how truly awful it would be! Thus the footman reflected as he stood in the doorway, listening to Madame Bonanni's voluble French speech. As she paused for a moment, he heard some one on the stairs. It was Mrs. Rushmore herself.
Finance amuses him now and then for a while, and he has been tremendously lucky. They consider him one of the important men in the money market, don't they? The question was directed to the French artist. 'Certainly they do! replied the latter, with alacrity. 'I have painted his portrait. 'I should like to know him, said Mrs. Rushmore.
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