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Updated: June 12, 2025
It was a queenly presence tall, graceful, and intensely womanly. "Mr. Holmes," she said and her white-gloved hands clasped and unclasped as she spoke "I will speak frankly to you in the hopes that it may induce you to speak frankly in return. There is complete confidence between my husband and me on all matters save one. That one is politics. On this his lips are sealed. He tells me nothing.
The white-gloved butler advanced in a sort of stately goose-step with another spoon, which he placed on the dish being handed to me, and a third menial of lesser splendour but also white-gloved brought a cloth and wiped up the mess, and the Grafin became more terribly and volubly kind than ever. Helena's eyes never wavered. They were still on my ear.
Transported by this proof of her graciousness, he gave the chauffeur the address: "Hotel Plaza." With the impudent imperturbability of his breed, the man nodded and grunted without looking round. From the body of the vehicle Marian extended a white-gloved hand. "Good-night, Mr. Sybarite. To-morrow at five."
There was no other furniture except an enormous black cushion lying between the brazier and the fireplace; and in the middle of the cushion a little Japanese girl. She was squatting on her white-gloved toes in native fashion.
And then ... there was the pretty edge of a furbelowed skirt upon the carriage-floor ... a dainty patent-leather toe upon the foot-rest ... an unrolling panorama of white-gloved hands, pale buff dress, great plumed hat, eyes not seen yet known to be blue to match the upholstery ... an exquisite lady sitting in the victoria.
But Murgh held up his white-gloved hand and replied: "Have I not said that I answer no questions? Now go forth and follow the promptings of your heart till we meet again." Then gliding to the head of the stair he vanished in the shadow. "Say, what shall we do?" asked Hugh in amazed voice.
If you'd like to hunt them up for me you're very welcome." With which, for the moment, over the difficult case, they faced each other helplessly enough. And she added to it now the sharpest ache of her despair. "He knows about Murray Brush. The others" and her pretty white-gloved hands and charming pink shoulders gave them up "may go hang!" "Murray Brush ?" It had opened Mr. Pitman's eyes.
It all seemed to depend, now, on the verdict of the examining Naval surgeons! But there was little time for thought. Once inside, they were ushered, by a white-gloved midshipman, into the office of Commander Jephson, commandant of midshipmen. That gentleman, also in uniform, as were all Navy officers on duty at the Academy, looked briefly as the two young men stood before him.
Barbara did not laugh, but her white-gloved hands clapped like a child's. She stopped suddenly and touched George Oakleigh's arm, pointing ruefully to a split thumb. Jack Waring sent up a belated rocket of laughter, which started the general laughter again; Eric saw him burying his head, shamefaced, in his hands; Barbara was peeling off the injured glove.
Then he stretched out his white-gloved hand toward them and melted into the gloom. "Only," added Basil nervously, "it was noted afterward that all those who had tried to injure the man were among the first to die of the pest. Thank God, I was not one of them. Indeed I did my best to hold them back, which, perhaps, is the reason why I am alive to-day."
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