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"They are unkind!" she protested. "From the way they put it, M. Verbier, you really might think that I refused to take charge of Mme. Van den Rosen's jewellery in order to make things easy for the thief, which is as much as to say that I was his accomplice." "That is precisely what the magistrate did think," M. Louis interpolated.
This small and select company was increased to-night by the addition of M. Henri Verbier, a man of about forty years of age, who had left the branch hotel at Cairo belonging to the same Company to join the staff at the Royal Palace Hotel in Paris. "I am afraid, M. Verbier, you will form a very bad opinion of our establishment," said M. Muller to him.
Two years three years?" "Yes," Mlle. Jeanne replied, purposely refraining from being explicit. "I only asked because I fancy I have seen you before somewhere. I recognise your eyes!" Henri Verbier smiled, and looked meaningly at the girl. "Mlle. Jeanne, on summer nights like this, when you are looking at a lovely view like this, don't you have a funny sort of feeling?" "No. What do you mean?"
Love always means misery for working people like us." "It is you who are foolish," Henri Verbier protested gently, "or else you are mischievous. No: love is not stupid for working people like us; on the contrary, it is the only means we have of attaining perfect happiness. Lovers are rich!" "In wealth that lets them die of hunger," she scoffed. "No, no," he answered: "no.
"I don't make a habit of smoking, but I let myself be tempted sometimes." "If I have been kind, you can show your gratitude very easily," Henri Verbier replied: "by allowing me to stay here a few minutes and smoke a cigarette with you." "By all means," said Mlle. Jeanne. "I love to spend a little time at my window at night, to get the air before going to bed.
"My room is next to yours," he said, "and as I saw you were standing dreaming at your window I thought perhaps you would condescend to smoke an Egyptian cigarette. I have brought some back from Cairo: it is very mild tobacco real ladies' tobacco." The girl laughed and took a dainty cigarette from the case that Henri Verbier offered her. "It's very kind of you to think of me," she said.
"No, it wouldn't," the girl replied; "but when there is a rule it seems to me that it ought to be obeyed. My time is up at nine o'clock, and I am forbidden to accept any deposits after nine o'clock: and that's why I refused that lady's. I was perfectly right; and I should do the same again, if the same thing happened." Henri Verbier was manifestly anxious to conciliate the young cashier.
He put out his arms as he spoke, ready to catch the girl as she came across the room, and was on the very point of taking her into his arms as he had suggested, when she broke from his grasp with a sudden turn and, furious with rage, dealt him a tremendous blow right on the temple. With a stifled groan, Henri Verbier dropped unconscious to the floor. Mlle.
The girl took no notice of the interruption, but went on with her explanation to Henri Verbier. "What happened was this: the rule is that I am at the disposal of customers, to take charge of deposits or to return them to the owners, until nine P.M., and until nine P.M. only. After that, my time is up, and all I have to do is lock my safe and go: I am free until nine o'clock next morning.
I recognised you in Henri Verbier at the hotel, but I had no idea that it was you last night." "That's nothing," said Juve with a shake of the head. "And you may understand once for all that when I have once looked anybody square in the face, he needs to be an uncommonly clever fellow to escape me afterwards by means of any disguise.
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