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"No, no, I'm afraid I must ask you to excuse me there, Mrs. Van Stuyler," said Redgrave, with a change of tone which Miss Zaidie appreciated with a swiftly veiled glance. "You see, I have placed myself beyond the law. I have, as you have been good enough to intimate, abducted to put it brutally two ladies from the deck of an Atlantic liner.
As she said afterwards, she felt just like a bottled volcano which would like to go off and daren't. About two minutes of somewhat surcharged silence passed. Mrs. Van Stuyler sipped her coffee in ostentatiously small sips. Lord Redgrave took his in slower and longer ones, and helped himself to bread and butter. Miss Zaidie appeared perfectly contented with her contemplation of the clouds.
But to the shocked senses of Mrs. Van Stuyler the present adventure appeared a great deal more terrible than that. Both Zaidie and herself had sprung to their feet as soon as the upward rush of the Astronef had slackened and they were released from their seats.
The excitement of the upward rush, and what was left of the momentary physical fear, had flushed her cheeks and lighted her eyes. Even Mrs. Van Stuyler thought her looking, if possible, more beautiful than she had done under the most favourable of terrestrial circumstances.
"I beg your pardon?" said Lord Redgrave as he put the tray down on the table. "What Miss Rennick means, Lord Redgrave," interrupted Mrs. Van Stuyler, struggling out of her paralytic condition, "and what I, too, should like to say, is that under the circumstances " "You think that I am not as penitent as I ought to be.
Further, in doing so I have selfishly spoiled the prospects of one of the ladies. But, seriously, I really must go to Washington first " "I think, Lord Redgrave," interrupted Mrs. Van Stuyler, ignoring the last unfinished sentence and assuming her best Knickerbocker dignity, "if you will forgive me saying so, that that is scarcely a subject for discussion here."
Captain Hawkins looked up and said rather seriously: "Then, my Lord, I presume you don't know " "Don't know what?" "That Miss Rennick is crossing in the care of Mrs. Van Stuyler, to be married in London next month." "The devil she is! And to whom, may I ask?" exclaimed his lordship, pulling himself up very straight. "To the Marquis of Byfleet, son of the Duke of Duncaster.
He paused for a moment and then, looking straight into Zaidie's eyes, he added: "The one condition I make is that the vote shall be unanimous." "Under the circumstances, Lord Redgrave," said Mrs. Van Stuyler, rising from her seat and walking towards him with all the dignity that would have been hers in her own drawing-room, "there can only be one answer to that.
Paul and Minneapolis, and northward to Portland and Seattle, southward to San Francisco and Monterey, then eastward again to Salt Lake City, and then, after a leap across the Rockies which frightened Mrs. Van Stuyler almost to fainting point and made Zaidie gasp for breath, away southward to Santa Fé and New Orleans. Then northward again up the Mississippi Valley to St.
"That you were ever in love with, eh?" said Mrs. Van Stuyler with a snap in her voice. "Is that so? Ah, I begin to see something now." "And I think, if you possess your soul in patience, you will see something more before long," snapped Miss Zaidie in reply.
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