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Order me some coffee, and give me a cigarette, my friend. I have something else to say to you." He obeyed her, and she leaned back in the high chair. "Listen to me," she said. "I have nothing whatever to do with you and Lucille. I suppose you will get your revenge on Souspennier through her. It won't be like you if you don't try, and you ought to have the game pretty well in your own hands.
His clerk laid the message down on the table before him. "Here is the despatch, Mr. Mace," he said, "and here is the translation." "English Ambassador demands immediate explanation of arrest of Duke Souspennier at Waldorf to-night. Reply immediately what charge and evidence. Souspennier naturalised Englishman." Mr. Mace sprang to his feet with an oath.
Celeste, who was waiting for him, glided at once to his side. "Monsieur!" she whispered. "I have been here for one hour." He nodded. "Well?" "Monsieur le Duc has arrived." The Prince turned sharply round. "Who?" "Monsieur le Duc de Souspennier. He calls himself no longer Mr. Sabin." A dull flush of angry colour rose almost to his temples. "Why did you not tell me before?" he exclaimed.
"I should like, Souspennier, to express to you my regrets that I was ever induced to become connected in any way with proceedings which must have caused you a great deal of pain. I beg you to accept my apologies." "I do not blame you, Duke," Mr. Sabin said. "My one desire now is to wrest my wife away from this gang. Can you tell me whether she left alone or with any of them?"
"The first is that in a friendly way, and of course under the inviolable law of secrecy, you explain to me for what part Lucille is cast in this little comedy; the next that I be allowed to see her at reasonable intervals, and finally that she is known by her rightful name as Duchesse de Souspennier." The forced urbanity which the Prince had assumed fell away from him without warning.
The Prince shrugged his shoulders. "By whom? Ah, how your story would excite ridicule. I seem to hear the laughter now. No, my dear Souspennier, you would bargain for me with Lucille. Look below. Are we likely to part with her just yet?" In a corner, behind a gigantic palm, Lucille and Brott were talking together. Lady Carey had drawn Opperman a little distance away.
"I am a little puzzled," he admitted, "as to this shall I not call it self-assertiveness? on the part of my good friend Souspennier." "I will make it quite clear then," Mr. Sabin answered. "Lucille, will you favour me by ringing for your maid. The carriage is at the door." The Prince held out his hand. "My dear Souspennier," he said, "you must not think of taking Lucille away from us."
"Your taste," he remarked a little spitefully, "would be considered a trifle strange. Souspennier carries his years well, but he must be an old man." She sipped her wine thoughtfully. "Old or young," she said, "he is a man, and all my life I have loved men, strong men.
The man took out his book. Mr. Sabin, who was sitting in an easy-chair, turned sideways towards him. "The Duchess of Souspennier was staying here last week," he said. "She left, I believe, on Thursday or Friday. Can you tell me whether her baggage went through your hands?" The man set down his hat upon a vacant chair, and turned over the leaves of his book.
"It must be entirely as you wish," Mr. Sabin answered. "I am at your service now or later." The Prince rose to his feet. "Monsieur le Due de Souspennier," he said, "what are we to conclude from your presence here this evening?" "It is obvious," Mr. Sabin answered. "I claim my place amongst you." "You claim to be one of us?" "I do!"
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