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If you or any of your friends presume to trespass on the privacy of these grounds of mine, I'll kick the whole lot of you into the Danube. Hawkes! Either show or lead Count Tarnowsy to the gates. As for you, Mr. Schwartzmuller, I shall expose " But the last word in restorations had departed. My humblest apologies, dear reader, if I have led you to suspect that I want to be looked upon as a hero.
If I failed at that time to inspire feelings of love in the breast of a giddy stenographer, what right had I to expect anything better from the beautiful Countess Tarnowsy, whose aspirations left nothing to the imagination? While she was prone to chat without visible restraint at this significantly trying moment, I, being a philosopher, remained silent and thoughtful.
For an hour I sat there in the window absorbing the astonishing history of the Tarnowsy abduction case. I felt rather than observed the intense scrutiny with which she favoured me. At last she tossed the remainder of the bundle unread, into a corner. Her face was aglow with pleasure. "You've read both sides, and I've watched you oh, so closely.
The noblemen in such cases are real noblemen, and their American wives are real wives. There are no Count Tarnowsys among them. My blood curdles when I think of you being married to a man of the Tarnowsy type. It is that sort of a marriage that I execrate." "The buy and sell kind?" she said, and her eyes fell. The colour had faded from her cheeks. "Yes. The premeditated murder type."
The whole world had rung wedding bells for the marriage of the Count Maris Tarnowsy, scion of one of the greatest Hungarian houses, and Aline, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Gwendolen and Jasper Titus, of New York, Newport, Tuxedo, Hot Springs, Palm Beach and so forth.
I confess to a mistaken impression concerning him up to the moment he handed me his clumsy business card. My suspicions had set him down as a confederate of Count Tarnowsy, a spy, a secret agent or whatever you choose to consider one who is employed in furthering a secret purpose. But the business card removed my doubts and misgivings.
You have a perfect right to hire and discharge, but but Don't you think you'd better consider very carefully " He seemed to be finding his collar rather tight. I held up my hand. "Of course I do not care to offend the Countess Tarnowsy. It was very kind of her to recommend them. We we will let the matter rest for a few days."
Vanity, you may call it, as I do, but it pleases me to coddle it." Very thoughtfully I strode along beside him. Would I be serving the Countess ill or well by selling the place to Tarnowsy? It was her whim, of course, and it was a foolish one. "Suppose that he offered you twice what you are to pay me for the place," said I, struck by a sudden thought. He laughed easily.
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