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The maid-servant who took the names of the two men was surprised, and showed it, but her democratic respect for titles yielded to suspicion when she observed Count Vassilan's villainous guise. "Wil-li-am!" she cried, and, when the ex-sailor appeared from the depths, she asked him to "look after the gentlemen" while she summoned Mr. Hughes.
Vassilan emerged from the kitchen, dripping but less gory, and the two visitors disappeared, whereupon Mr. Hughes confided his mystification to Jenkins. But Wil-li-am shook his cadaverous head. "Mebbe the Earl was right, an' mebbe he was wrong," he said decisively.
William Jenkins, my factotum, has been privileged to assist on many such occasions. . . . Wil-li-am!" He raised his voice, and a wizened little man appeared suddenly, having evidently waited outside the door until he was summoned. Then, with due ritual, John Delancy Curtis and Hermione Beauregard Grandison were joined in the bonds of wedlock, and, by the time Mr.
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