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"I will correct you if it is necessary." "Very well," he answered. "I will tell the story, and a pitiful one it is. This boy is watched, as we all know, for, owing to my folly in ignoring his antecedents, a great trust has been reposed in him. News was brought to me that he had been seen with his father and Mrs. Smith-Lessing in Gattini's Restaurant.
The safe was practically empty. "They were there this morning," I said. "It was arranged that I should examine the contents of the safe the first thing, and take any finished work over to the War Office. Do you remember who has been in the room to-day, sir?" "Yourself, myself, and the woman whom you brought here an hour or so ago." "Mrs. Smith-Lessing?" I exclaimed.
You can be amiable if you like, you know, and you can be very much the other thing." "I will try," I assured her, "not to be the other thing." She smiled. "And tell me all about Braster." "There is not much to tell," I answered. "I have been hard at work all the time, and I have scarcely seen a soul." "The woman Mrs. Smith-Lessing?" "She left Braster before you.
"After that admission, do you still deny that you told Mrs. Smith-Lessing, or whatever the woman calls herself, the code word for that safe?" "Most certainly I deny it," I answered firmly. "The two things are wholly disconnected." The Duke sat down heavily in his chair. I knew very well that of the three men he was the most surprised.
"The choice," Ray repeated, glancing at his watch, "is yours, but the time is short." "I will go," Blenavon said. "I was off in a day or two, anyway. Of what you suspect me I don't know, and I don't care. But I will go." Ray put his watch into his pocket. He turned to Mrs. Smith-Lessing. "Better come too," he said quietly. "You have no more chance here. Every one knows now who and what you are."
"You will see that my visiting her does not prejudice me further with the Board, sir?" I ventured to say. "You can take that for granted," the Duke said. So that afternoon I called at No. 29, Bloomsbury Street, and in a shabby back room of a gloomy, smoke-begrimed lodging-house I found my father and Mrs. Smith-Lessing. He was lying upon a horsehair sofa, apparently dozing.
May I know is it any secret why you were with her?" "It is no secret at all, Lady Angela," I answered. "I was sent to fetch her by your father." "By my father?" she repeated incredulously. "Do you mean that she is in this house?" "Certainly," I answered. "Your father is anxious, I believe, about Lord Blenavon. It occurred to me that he perhaps hoped to get news of him from Mrs. Smith-Lessing.
If he guesses who you are he will come and speak to you and you are better apart." It was too late. With fascinated eyes I watched him leave his place and come towards us. I was absolutely powerless to move. Mrs. Smith-Lessing had left the outside chair vacant. He sank into it and leaned across the table towards me. "It is Guy," he said in a shaking voice. "I am sure that it is Guy.
"You, too, are getting suspicious," I declared. "The Prince and Mrs. Smith-Lessing are a strong combination." "Be careful then that they are not too strong for you," she answered, smiling. "I have heard a famous boast of Mrs. Smith-Lessing's, that never a man nor a lock has yet resisted her."
"I should be glad," he said, "if you would arrange for me to have an interview with her." "An interview with Mrs. Smith-Lessing!" I repeated incredulously. The Duke inclined his head. "There are a few questions," he said, "which I wish to ask her." "I can give you her address," I said. "I wish you to see her and arrange for the interview personally," the. Duke answered.
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