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"Oh, Lacville is a very safe place!" answered Madame Wachner, laughing her jovial laugh. "Still, considering all the money made by the Casino, it is too bad they 'aven't made a more splendid what do you call it ?" " Approach," said L'Ami Fritz, in his deep voice, and Chester turned, rather surprised. It was the first word he had heard Monsieur Wachner utter.
Madame Wachner had evidently been very much annoyed by Anna's lack of civility, and surely the least Anna could have done would have been to send a message saying that it was impossible for her to come to supper at the Châlet des Muguets! "I am quite sure Anna did not mean to be rude, dear Madame Wachner," said Sylvia, earnestly.
This fact had enlisted to a special degree Madame Wachner's interest and liking for the two young widows. Sylvia rang the primitive bell which hung by the door which alone gave access, apart from the windows, to the Châlet des Muguets. After some moments the day-servant employed by Madame Wachner opened the door with the curt words, "Monsieur and Madame are in Paris."
"Oh no, Monsieur, I must go hack to the Casino and look after Fritz! 'E is a child quite a child as regards money." Madame Wachner sighed heavily. "No, no, you go 'ome to bed in the Pension Malfait." "I shouldn't think of doing such a thing!" he said kindly. "I will come back with you to the Casino, and together we will persuade Monsieur Wachner to go home.
He was going into the kitchen to make the coffee. "Mr. Chester was telling me of your valuable pearls," said Madame Wachner pleasantly. "I was surprised! What a lot of money to 'ang round one's neck! But it is worth it if one 'as so lovely a neck as 'as the beautiful Sylvia! May I look at your pearls, dear friend? Or do you never take them off?"
"I wonder" Sylvia Bailey looked up at her silent companion, L'Ami Fritz had not opened his lips once during the walk from the Casino, "I wonder that you and Madame Wachner are not afraid to leave the châlet alone for so many hours of each day! Your servant always goes away after lunch, doesn't she?" "There is nothing to steal," he answered shortly.
"Oh, but your pretty dress! Would it not get 'urt in the kitchen?" cried Madame Wachner deprecatingly. But she allowed Sylvia to follow her into the bright, clean little kitchen, of which the door was just opposite the drawing-room. "What a charming little cuisine!" cried Sylvia smiling.
Had it not been for the Wachners, these two days of dual solitude with Chester would have been dreary indeed, but Madame Wachner was their companion on more than one long excursion and wherever Madame Wachner went there reigned a kind of jollity and sense of cheer. Sylvia wondered if the Comte de Virieu was indeed coming back as he had said he would do.
Who could wonder that Madame Wachner spoke so disagreeably of him? Sylvia Bailey's nature was very loyal, and now she reminded herself that this couple, for whom Count Paul seemed to have an instinctive dislike, were good-natured and kindly.
"If you do not mind," said Madame Wachner, "I should prefer to be driven to the station, for l'Ami Fritz had to go to Paris." She laughed ruefully. "To fetch money, as usual! His system did not work at all well yesterday poor Fritz!" "How horrid!" said Sylvia. "It must be very disappointing to your husband when his system goes wrong." "Yes, very," answered the wife drily.
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