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His revolver spoke quickly, and Baxter, with a little cough, fell forward on his face. Turning from his butcher's work, Boris whipped round to meet the terror-stricken eyes of Mademoiselle Vseslavitch. "It is not my fault," he said, "that you have been compelled to look on this." Then his voice rang out clear and hard. "Gentlemen," he cried, "I have no desire to create further disturbance.
But to return for a moment to the source of Paul's unhappiness. He might not have been so wretched as he sat in the little café could he have seen her in her boudoir, now weeping with wild uncontrollable sobs, now smiling radiantly through her tears. For Mademoiselle Natalie Vseslavitch was at once the happiest and the most miserable of women.
Paul looked up from the picture to Ivanovitch. "You," he said simply, "know everybody hereabouts. Therefore I feel confident that you will be able to tell me the name of this girl. That is all I ask you at present." Boris laughed and then checked his laughter. "The lady," he said, "is Mademoiselle Vseslavitch, who, as you are probably aware, lives no great distance away."
Stabbing the other noise with sharp precision came the sound of shots. Meanwhile, at the estate of Peter Vseslavitch, the day dawned clear and fine but upon what a scene of uproar!
Boris laughed lightly as he paused in the doorway. "I am still thinking of Mademoiselle Vseslavitch," he said. "Then you make a vast mistake," Paul answered. "She is not for you." "We shall see what we shall see," tauntingly replied Boris, as he closed the door behind him. But his remarks did not prevent Paul, when he retired, from promptly going to sleep.
And his own spirits rose as well, for now, he thought, the obstacle to his suit had been brushed aside. That day passed quickly, for there was much to talk about. Alexis Vseslavitch was still there, for he had refused to leave while Paul seemed in any danger. And the four discussed at length the events of those two memorable nights. That night Paul went once more with Natalie to the garden.
Milord Rosbif must have been having some famous old wine over in the Faubourg St. Germain, is it not so?" he asked himself. But it was the more exalted intoxication of the soul that sent Paul up the steps with the elastic stride of youth. Who was she? Paul did not know, even now. Mademoiselle Vseslavitch had said nothing of her family or her home.
As his eyes grew accustomed to the light he stepped forward into the room, only to stand still again and remain motionless, as though turned to stone. For there, at a long table in the centre of the room, with piles of gold and notes before her, heavily veiled, sat Mademoiselle Vseslavitch. A little cry which Paul could not prevent breaking from his lips drew the eyes of all upon him.
He knew that the task of finding the lady was much less simple than it had been at Langres. But he made a thorough search through the visitors' lists of all the hotels. His persistence, however, found no reward. He could find no trace of Mademoiselle Vseslavitch whatever. He had been in Nice two days, and his unsuccessful search began to tell upon his nerves.
One can't fail to detect the peculiar aromatic flavour which tea retains when it has travelled overland, but which most of the leaves sold in England lose in coming by sea." "This is my own which I always carry with me," Mademoiselle Vseslavitch remarked. "We have used no other in our family for many years." "And where, Mademoiselle, if I may ask, does this highly discriminating family reside?
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