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I scent amusement in this adventure, which I have decided to undertake. With your permission I will see these girls and quickly decide their fate. Should they prove not too dreadfully outré you may look to see them my especial protégés." "I leave all to your discretion, Diana," returned Von Taer, with a sigh. "If, in the end, some of the more particular venture to reproach them."
She understood that in the girl were capabilities for good or for evil, as she might be led by a stronger will. And, musingly, Diana wondered who would lead her. As for Louise, she was enraptured by her distinguished visitor's condescension and patronage, and her heart bounded at the thought of being admitted to the envied social coterie in which Diana Von Taer shone a bright, particular star.
I'm not to be bribed." "Have you really a warrant for my arrest?" "I've carried it since Friday. It's no use, Mershone, the game's up and you may as well grin and bear it." Mershone was about to reply when the door opened and Diana Von Taer came in with a swift, catlike tread and confronted him with flaming eyes. "You coward! You low, miserable scoundrel!
He disliked to ask favors at any time and now felt that he had confided himself to the mercy of this callous aristocrat and met with a distinct rebuff. But he had done it for the sake of his beloved nieces and they would never know what humiliation this unsatisfactory interview had cost him. Diana Von Taer can not be called a type. She was individual.
John Merrick would be of the right sort; but the age is peculiar, and one cannot be too cautious in choosing associates. If Miss Merrick had run away from her home and friends, Miss Von Taer was in no way responsible for the escapade. And now, if Miss De Graf had nothing further to say, more important matters demanded Diana's time. Beth was furious with anger at this baiting.
This, indeed, the Frenchwoman might have done long ago had she not suspected such an act might cause great embarrassment to Diana Von Taer, whom she had held on her knee as an infant and sought to protect with loyal affection. It was hard, though, to hear the pitiful appeals of the imprisoned girl, and to realize how great was the wrong that was being done her.
To Louise she said, before going: "I'm to have an evening, the nineteenth. Will you assist me to receive? Now that we are acquainted I wish to see more of you, my dear, and I predict we shall get along famously together." The girl's head swam. Help Miss Von Taer to receive! Such an honor had been undreamed of an hour ago.
"Seems to me he has the right to be a broker if he wants to," asserted Mr. Merrick. "The right; yes. But, between us, Mr. Merrick, this society swell has no mental capacity to handle such an uncertain business. He's noted for doing unwarranted things. To me it's a marvel that Von Taer hasn't shipwrecked the family fortunes long ago. Luck has saved him, not foresight."
"We must all have new gowns for this reception, and as we're to assist Miss Von Taer the dresses must harmonize, so to speak, and and " "And be quite suited to the occasion," broke in Louise; "and " "And wear our lives out with innumerable fittings," concluded Beth, gloomily. "But why new dresses?" demanded the Major.
Diana Von Taer was a girl who, rightly led, might have been capable of developing a noble womanhood; yet the conditions of her limited environment had induced her to countenance a most dastardly and despicable act. It speaks well for the innate goodness of this girl that she at last actually rebelled and resolved to undo, insofar as she was able, the wrong that had been accomplished.
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