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Fischer been telling you fairy tales?" she laughed. "Fairy tales?" her aunt repeated severely. "I don't understand." Fischer's steel grey eyes flashed behind his spectacles. "I'm afraid that Miss Van Teyl's prejudices," he observed bitterly, "are very firmly fixed." "Then she is no true American," Mrs. Hastings pronounced didactically.
Then he slowly retraced his steps along the corridor, entered the sitting-room, and took up the telephone receiver, which was still lying upon the table. "Will you give me number 77," he asked "Miss Van Teyl's suite?" There was a moment's silence then a voice at the other end to which he made obeisance. "It is Miss Van Teyl who speaks? I am Mr. Van Teyl's valet. Mr.
"You don't suggest that I should rob her of it, I suppose?" "Not at all," Fischer replied. "On the other hand, you might very well induce her to give it up voluntarily, or at least to treat with me." "You don't know Pamela," was Van Teyl's curt reply.
Van Teyl's words were incoherent a string of strange directions, punctuated by slang which was, so far as Lutchester was concerned, unintelligible. The whole place seemed to wake into a clamour of telephone bells, shouts, the clanging and opening of the lift gates, and the hurried tramp of footsteps in the corridors outside. Lutchester rose to his feet.
"I will wish you good night, Miss Van Teyl. Good night!" Pamela's reiterated thanks were murmured and perfunctory. Even James Van Teyl's hospitable instincts seemed numbed. They allowed Lutchester to depart with scarcely a word. With the closing of the door, speech brought them some relief from a state of tension which was becoming intolerable. Even then Fischer at first said nothing.
"The master of these," she whispered, rising to her feet in response to her hostess's signal, "knows when to abandon them " Lutchester changed his place to a vacant chair by James Van Teyl's side. "I was going to ask you, Mr. Van Teyl," he inquired, "whether your Japanese servant was altogether a success? I think I shall have to get a temporary servant while I am over here."
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