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Usselex dine out, do you know?" Maule asked. "I don't think Mrs. Usselex is coming back, sir," was the answer. "You mean that Mrs. Usselex will not return until late, I suppose." To this the man made no reply; he scratched the end of his nose reflectively. In his face was an expression that arrested Maule's attention. "What do you mean?" he asked, a sudden suspicion entering his mind.
She left Gothland with the child, and it was not until she died that Usselex learned that instead of being her son, he was grandson of the Emperor. He had the bar-sinister, of course, but the ancestry was there all the same. I don't know that I or any other man would envy him it; but perhaps it is better than none. However, as soon as Usselex learned the facts, he packed up and came over here.
"Whose life is it that you have filled?" she asked, and her voice, that had rippled with laughter a moment before, became suddenly chill and subdued. In the doorway before her the butler appeared in silent announcement that dinner was served. Arnswald made a step forward. "The letter is mine, Mrs. Usselex," he said, "I "
At the time contemporaneous to the episodes with which these pages have to deal John Usselex had reached that age in which men begin to take an interest in hair restorers. In his face was the pallor of a plastercast, his features were correct and coercive, in person he was about the average height, slim and well-preserved. He carried glasses rimmed with tortoise-shell.
"Is that you, Harris?" she asked, without turning her head. "Harris, that man that brought the note for Mr. Usselex this evening was the one that came on Monday with the note for Mr. Arnswald, was it not?" "I beg pardon, ma'am." Eden reconstructed the question and repeated it. "It was a young person, ma'am," Harris answered. "A lady's maid, most likely.
Usselex had mentioned his existence on more than one incidental occasion, but after each mention the actuality of that existence had escaped her; and a week or so after her return to town she found herself mediocrally pleased at learning that he would probably be a frequent guest at her dinner-table.
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