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We lunch here and we promenade in the places frequented by those of a similar station to our own, and behold! we know no one. We are lookers on. Perhaps, for a long time, it might gall. For a brief period there is a restfulness about it which pleases me." "I should have liked," Peter murmured, "an introduction to the lady in the blue hat." "You are a gregarious animal," Sogrange declared.
He is dining now three places behind you to the right, with a young lady who has been making flagrant attempts at flirtation with me, notwithstanding my gray hairs." "Your reputation, my dear Peter," Sogrange murmured "As a decoy," Peter interrupted, "the young lady's methods are too vigorous.
An hour or so later, the Marquis de Sogrange and Peter, Baron de Grost, took their leave of New York. They chose a hotel on Broadway, within a stone's throw of Rector's.
"Is that necessary?" he asked. "I fear that it is," Sogrange replied. "We had a brief meeting of the executive council last night, and it was decided, for certain reasons, to entrust this task into no other hands. You will smile when I tell you that these accursed pamphlets have found their way into the possession of many of the rank and file of our own order.
"Personally, I am losing my curiosity." "Guess you won't have to wait very long," the man replied, with meaning. The room was suddenly invaded on all sides. Four doors, which were quite hidden by the pattern of the wall, had opened almost simultaneously, and at least a dozen men had entered. This time both Sogrange and Peter knew that they were face to face with the real thing.
"Isn't this a little exceeding the usual exercise of our powers?" Peter asked slowly. "No such occasion as this has ever yet arisen," Sogrange reminded him. "Bernadine has fled to this country with barely an hour to spare. His offence is extraditable by a law of the last century which has never been repealed. He is guilty of treason against the Republic of France.
"Look at him the man whose might is greater than any emperor's. There is no haven in the universe to which he does not hold the key. Look at him master of the world!" Peter shivered. There was something depressing in the sight of that mournful procession. "He neither smokes nor drinks," Sogrange continued. "Women, as a sex, do not exist for him. His religion is a doubting Calvinism.
"My friend," he murmured, "you bluffed fairly well, but you were afraid. Oh, how I smiled to see your fingers close round the butt of that revolver!" "What about you?" Peter asked, gruffly. "You don't suppose you took me in, do you?" Sogrange smiled. "I had two reasons for coming to New York," he said. "One we accomplished upon the steamer. The other was " "Well?"
Besides, although I could manage myself very well, you would be an exceedingly awkward subject. Your tall and elegant figure, your aquiline nose, the shapeliness of your hands and feet, give you a distinction which I should find it hard to conceal." Sogrange smiled. "You are a remarkably observant fellow, Baron. I quite appreciate your difficulty.
He did not even know that the Marquis was possessed of estates! "Somewhere about seven millions of francs," Sogrange declared. "There are few men in Paris more extravagant than I, and I think that we Frenchmen know what extravagance means. But I cannot spend my income. Do you think that it is for the sake of gain that I have come across the Channel to add the Clenarvon diamonds to our coffers?"
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