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She held his card in her fingers, and all the yellow hair fell over her plump shoulders, like amber sunshine over snow. "Mr. Carl Walraven?" Miss Dane said, with a smile and a graceful little bow. Mr. Carl Walraven rose up and returned that pretty courtesy with a salute stiff and constrained. "Yes, Miss Dane." "Pray resume your seat, Mr. Walraven," with an airy wave of a little white hand.
He found the lady, as usual, beautiful and elegant, and dressed to perfection, and ready to receive him alone in the drawing-room. "I've been seriously anxious about you, Guy," Mrs. Walraven said. "Your prolonged absence nearly gave me a nervous fit. I had serious ideas of calling at your office this afternoon. Why were you not here sooner?"
Before the words were well uttered there was a sound of an altercation in the hall one of the tall footmen pathetically protesting, and a shrill female voice refusing to listen to those plaintive protests. Then there suddenly fell peace. "After a storm there cometh a calm," Mr. Walraven said. "Miss Oleander, shall we move on? Well, Johnson, what is it?"
"If she'll consent, I'll take her to Europe," mused Carl Walraven. "It will be delightful to go over the old places with so fresh a companion as my sparkling little Cricket. But I'm not sure that she'll go she's a great deal to fond of young Ingelow. Well, he's a fine fellow, and I've no objection." Mr. Walraven's reflections were interrupted by the entrance of Mr. Sardonyx.
"I'm a mystery and a puzzle to myself and to everybody else. I don't know who I am, nor what my real name may be if I have any right to a name! I don't know what I am to this Mr. Walraven, and I don't know who that mysterious woman, Miriam, is. I don't know anything. I have a husband, and I don't know him shouldn't recognize him if I met him face to face this instant.
You stand there dressed like a king, and I stand here in rags your kitchen scullions would scorn; but for all that, Carl Walraven for all that, you're my slave, and you know it!" Her eyes blazed, her hands clinched, her gaunt form seemed to tower and grow tall with the sense of her triumph and her power. "Have you anything else to say?" inquired Mr.
The bridal party were drawn up before the surpliced clergyman, and "Who giveth this woman?" had been asked and answered, and the service was proceeding in due order when there was a sudden commotion at the door. Some one rushed impetuously in, and a voice that rang through the lofty edifice shouted: "Stop! I forbid the marriage!" Carl Walraven whirled round aghast.
Would he really ask her to become Lady Trajenna, or would the glamour wear off and leave the saucy little flirt stranded high and dry? The last night of Mr. Walraven's stay in Washington settled that question. They were at a grand reception, Mrs. Walraven magnificent in moiré and diamonds, and Mollie floating about in a cloud of misty pink, and sparkling pearls, and amber tresses.
Walraven saw no more; he sat holding the strip of paper before him, and staring at the one name as if the fat letters fascinated him "Fanchon, Miss Mollie Dane." A shrill-voiced bell tinkled, and the drop-curtain went up, and the household of Father Barbeaud was revealed. There was a general settling into seats, hats flew off, the noises ceased, and the play began.
Ingelow, I called twice at the studio since, but each time to find it locked." There was a tap at the door. "Come in," said the lawyer. And enter a waiter, with a card for Mr. Walraven. That gentleman took it with a start. "Speak of the Hugh Ingelow!" he muttered. "Sardonyx, I wish to see Ingelow in private. I'll drop into your office in the course of the day." Mr.
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