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"You or our East Orange friend might have been killed, it is true, but Voles could not have carried the girl off so easily." Carshaw promptly regretted his bitter comment. "I'm sorry," he said, "but you cannot realize what all this means to me, Steingall." "I think I can. Cheer up; your car is easily recognizable. We have a cyclist known to this young lady in close pursuit.
Try as she might, she dreaded every such incident as the preliminary to a stormy interview with her father. "Unless I am greatly mistaken, ma'am," interposed Uncle Horace blandly, "this will be a waiter coming to tell us that supper is ready." As usual, he said the correct thing, and Steingall drew Hermione aside while the table was being spread for the feast.
I hope to have the honor of toasting your wife before I go to bed." Curtis smiled at that, but made no reply, the moment being inopportune for explanations, but Devar murmured, as they crossed the lobby with Steingall and the clerk: "That uncle of yours is a peach, John D. He points the moral like a Greek chorus." "I fear he will regard me as a hare-brained nephew," said Curtis.
"Thank you, I said that about the year 1907," said Quinny, while Steingall gasped and nudged Towsey. "That is the tragedy of life, not the tragedy of art, two very different things. An artist has need of ten, fifteen, twenty women, according to the multiplicity of his ideas. He should be always violently in love or violently reacting." "And the wife?" said De Gollyer. "Has she any influence?"
No one will say a word if you hug her as hard as you like." Carshaw, agreeing to aught but delay, promised ruefully not to interfere. When the river police were at hand a nod brought several powerfully built officers closing in on the main gangway of the Wild Duck. The police-captain, in uniform, accompanied Steingall on board. A deck hand hailed them and asked their business.
"I suppose I must not ask questions," he said with a quizzical look into the extraordinary eyes which had earned the chief of the Detective Bureau the picturesque description coined by an enthusiastic reporter. "No need," said Steingall. "Unless you are fed up with excitement, I purpose taking you and Mr. Devar down town again, just as soon as Evans has stopped slinging ink.
We debated the point during a whole day, but some enterprising agent settled it for us by exhibiting a catchy sign 'Why not see America? And we both cried 'Why not? Mr. Devar senior, who has what you call a pull in such matters, has secured us the use of a railway president's car for the trip, and a whole lot of friends join us at Chicago. Can you come, too?" Steingall shook his head.
The license was in Hunter's possession was he bringing it to someone named de Courtois? Or was he masquerading under an alias?" "Answering your second question, I imagine not. I have the best of reasons for believing that Jean de Courtois exists. I wish now I hadn't. Don't you see, Steingall, I am in a deuce of a fix? I married the lady under a misapprehension.
When I reached home after seeing Winifred fixed comfortably in Miss Goodman's, I opened a letter from my lawyers, requesting an interview on another matter, of course. Meaning to marry Winifred, if she'll take me, I thought it wise to tell them something about recent events." Steingall carefully chose a cigar from a box of fifty, all exactly alike, nipped the end off, and lighted it.
A taxi was waiting there, and he gave the driver the address of the police headquarters downtown, but re-directed him when they were safe from pursuit, and the three, so oddly assorted as companions, arrived at the Plaza within a minute of the two young men. Steingall went straight to the telephone room, and Curtis ascended to his suite of apartments.
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