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Updated: June 18, 2025
"And inasmuch as that hundred you sent me has been pretty well shattered," he concluded, "suppose you call in your cold-hearted manager who refused me alms on your credit, and give him orders to honour my sight-drafts.
The viscount had but to send a trusty man with a vehicle, and the lady could meet him at a station of the Outer Circle Railway and thence proceed to a main station for Havre or Marseilles, as they selected. The famous sight-drafts were safe on Gratian's person.
After a while, when the modern Attila has swept over France, perhaps we will like to come and view the ruins and fill our gallery with the art-treasures which the impoverished defeated ones will gladly sell." "A large sum!" repeated the woman, frowning as her thoughts concentrated. "Enormous! I have been changing it into sight-drafts, and we can put on our wings at a moment's notice."
In her pocket was the real case of the sight-drafts for which she had palmed a duplicate filled with cut paper, upon the unlucky viscount. She was rich enough to make a home wherever money reigns a broad enough domain. The arrival of her relative and the summons to his sick-bed made her pause in her movements suddenly altered by the death of the viscount.
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