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They talked and laughed as they flung their money on the green cloth, and seemed to enjoy the fact that they were the centre of attraction. "One of them," whispered Madame Wachner eagerly, "had already lost eight thousand francs when I went downstairs to look for you! See, they are still losing. Our friend has the devil's own luck to-night! I have forbidden L'Ami Fritz to play at all.
"But, still, I should be much obliged if you will send me word when you receive the telegram you are expecting her to send you about the luggage." "Well?" cried Madame Wachner eagerly, as Sylvia silently got into the motor again. "Have you learnt anything? Have they not had news of our friend?" "They have heard nothing since they found that odd letter of hers," said Sylvia.
When they were in the vestibule Madame Wachner turned to him with a rueful smile: "It is a pity," she said, "that Fritz did not come away with us! 'E 'as made a thousand francs. It is a great deal of money for us to make or to lose. I do not believe 'e will keep it, for, though you bring 'im luck, my dear" she turned to Sylvia "that Count always brings 'im bad luck.
As they trudged along, Chester, glancing to his right, saw that there were still a great many boats floating on the lake. Did Lacville folk never go to bed? "Yes," said Madame Wachner, quickly divining his thoughts, "some of the people 'ere why, they stay out on the water all night! Then they catch the early train back to Paris in the morning, and go and work all day.
But the broad, low bed looked very comfortable, and there was a bath-room next door. Madame Wachner showed her guest the bath-room with great pride. "This is the 'English comfortable," she said, using the quaint phrase the French have invented to express the acme of domestic luxury. "My 'usband will never allow me to take a 'ouse that has no bath-room.
And, as Sylvia made no answer, "Perhaps it would be well not to say too much concerning Madame Wolsky having left like this. She might come back any moment, and then she would not like it if there had been a fuss made about it! If I were you I would tell nobody I repeat emphatically nobody." Madame Wachner stared significantly at Sylvia.
But she was evidently not satisfied, and no doubt that was why she stayed on to-night," observed Monsieur Wachner solemnly. Madame Wachner now came in. She had taken off her bonnet and changed her elastic-sided boots for easy slippers. "Oh, those French people!" she exclaimed. "How greedy they are for money! But well, Annette has earned her present very fairly " She shrugged her shoulders.
But I do not think that you can get one now no, it is a thing that one must get in one's own country, or, at any rate," she corrected herself, "in a country where you 'ave resided a long time." "What is your country, Madame?" asked Sylvia. "Are you French? I suppose Monsieur Wachner is German?" Madame Wachner shook her head. "Oh, 'e would be cross to 'ear that!
"If you will let me go," she said, desperately, "I swear I will give you everything I have in the world!" Madame Wachner suddenly laid her hand on Sylvia's arm, and tried to force her down on to her knees. "What do you take us for?" she cried, furiously. "We want nothing from you nothing at all!"
Madame Wachner was crawling about on her hands and knees on the floor, and she remained in the same odd position when the dining-room door opened. At last she looked up, and seeing who stood there, staring down at her, she raised herself with some difficulty, looking to the Frenchman's sharpened consciousness, like some monstrous greedy beast, suddenly baulked of its prey.
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