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Updated: June 11, 2025
The English servant who opened the door was in distress of mind when he saw her, for since he had served in Mrs. Rushmore's very proper household he had never seen anything like Madame Bonanni as she stood there asking for Miss Donne, and evidently not in a mood to be patient. He was very much inclined to tell her that she had mistaken the house, and to shut the door in her face.
The prospect of obtaining a considerable sum for Margaret, at the very moment when the girl had made up her mind to support herself as a singer, was in itself very tempting; and as it presented itself just when the horrors of an artistic career had been brought clearly before Mrs. Rushmore's mind by the newspaper paragraph, she did not hesitate a moment.
She wondered what the two men were saying now that they were alone together, and she turned her head to look over the back of the phaeton, but a turn of the road already hid the motor car from view. Meanwhile Mrs. Rushmore's face showed that she still insisted, and Margaret had to say something. As she was a truthful person it was not easy to decide what to say, and while she was hesitating Mrs.
'The Signora, said Logotheti, 'says she will come and lunch with me. Will you come too? I daresay we shall find something ready, and then, if you like, I'll run you out to Mrs. Rushmore's in the motor car. Margaret hesitated a moment, and looked from one to the other.
Logotheti smiled. 'Now you understand why I smooth my hair and dress like a tailor's manikin, he said quietly. 'It's enough to cow a mob, isn't it? 'Do you know, I'm not sure that I don't like you better so. You're more natural! 'You're evidently not timid, he answered, amused. 'But you can fancy the effect on Mrs. Rushmore's nerves, if she had seen me.
Either Alvah Moon had lost confidence in his chances and had sold the invention to some greenhorn for anything he could get; or else some one else had been so deeply interested in the affair as to risk a great deal of money in it. Mrs. Rushmore's gleam of intelligence was a comet; but her comet had two tails, which was very confusing.
I don't want to be unkind, but I daresay you have made yourself think all sorts of things. She felt that this was a great concession, to a Greek and an adventurer. 'Excuse me, said Logotheti quietly, 'but we are talking at cross purposes. What I have to say concerns Miss Donne's financial interests her fortune, if you like to call it so. Mrs. Rushmore's suspicions were immediately confirmed.
Rushmore's gate, starting to take Madame De Rosa back to Paris, as soon as the girl had gone in. Neither of them said much on the way, and the motor stopped again in the Boulevard Malesherbes. Madame De Rosa thanked Logotheti, with an odd little smile of intelligence. 'Take care! she said, as they parted, and her beady little black eyes looked sharply at him.
He must have had a sound heart and a strong head, for he did not desist from his occupation for many hours, though he had not eaten anything particular at breakfast, at Mrs. Rushmore's, and nothing at all since. The afternoon was wearing on when he knocked the ashes out of his pipe very carefully, laid it in its place, rose from his seat and uttered a single profane ejaculation. 'Damn!
Rushmore would exhibit herself to the astounded public if she carried out her threat. If Mrs. Rushmore's logic was faulty and the language of her argument vague, her instinct was keen enough and had not altogether misled her.
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