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"You shall have carte blanche in any Fifth Avenue shop to the amount of $1.75." "Will you be ready in time?" she laughed, looking around with dismay at the litter of open trunks. "I won't, if you stay here chattering like a magpie." "What time does the steamer sail?" "Eleven o'clock," said Helen. "We're all coming to see you off. Mr. Steell told me that he's coming, too."
Steell could prevent her the young girl had opened the front door. Now there was no way of preventing Helen knowing. The best thing was to prepare her gently. "My dear Mrs. Traynor I didn't tell you the trouble just now. There has been a little trouble. The Abyssinia " Helen gave a cry of anguish. "I knew it! I knew it! Kenneth is dead!" "No, no, my dear lady.
Anyhow, I want to talk to you just a little matter of business that's all!" Steell laughed, and, dropping into a chair, took the cigar which Mr. Parker held out. Turning to his host, and clapping him genially on the back the president exclaimed: "Go and talk to your wife, old man. You've left her alone long enough." "All right I will," replied the gambler, not sorry of any excuse to get away. Mr.
Could the inmates have taken alarm? All at once they heard people talking. Instantly, Steell recognized the voice of Keralio. He was questioning someone, no doubt the valet. They listened. "Well, did you carry out my orders?" "Oui, monsieur, ze last of ze ten-dollar bills has been passed. I have ze money here." "I did not mean that," broke in Keralio impatiently. "I mean as regards the child "
Ray returned to the attack, while Helen, amused, rose from the piano and went over to listen to the argument. "I mean that a person we know well may suddenly cease being that person and assume a personality entirely different." Mr. Steell laughed derisively. "Does the patient change her or his skin?" "No, the change is wholly mental.
"Who are all these other people," interrupted the miner, "that man Steell " "Yes, that is so. You must know everyone. You must make a study of each, so as to avoid making bad breaks. Monsieur Steell is a lawyer. He's in love with madame's sister, Miss Ray. You've known him all your life, went to school with him, and all that sort of thing. Say 'yes' to everything he says.
Steell, and taking refuge at the far end of the room sat down at the piano, and began to play softly a Chopin nocturne. Waving the newcomer to a seat, Mr. Parker offered him a cigar, which the fencing master, with a courteous bow, asked his hostess' permission to smoke. "By all means," she said, "and with your permission I'll leave you gentlemen alone a few moments. I have a letter to finish.
When he's drunk you can't do anything with him. He's getting ugly about ze diamonds." Steell nudged his fellow eavesdropper. "Did you hear that?" he whispered. "He spoke of diamonds!" Keralio was heard bursting into a peal of savage laughter. "Getting ugly is he? What does he want?"
"It must be a terrible life!" said Steell, as he lit another cigar. The host emptied his glass and again refilled it before he answered: "It's a life of a dog not of a human being. The toil is incessant, the profit doubtful. You starve to death: good food is unprocurable save at prohibitive prices. One sleeps practically in the open, save for such rude shelter as each man can make for himself.
It was with great satisfaction that I secured the discharge of one such man a few years ago, and I only regret that it was not in my power to have carried the matter so far that he might have spent a few years in prison. The present agent of the Blackfeet, Major George Steell, is an old-timer in the country and understands Indians very thoroughly.
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