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Such was the information M. Paul had been able to gather from swift and special police sources when he presented himself at the Wilmott hôtel, about luncheon time on Monday. Addison was just starting with some friends for a run down to Fontainebleau in his new Panhard, and he listened impatiently to Coquenil's explanation that he had come in regard to some English bank notes recently paid to Mr.
She stared at him in genuine admiration: "My God, you're the cleverest man I ever met!" M. Paul bowed politely, and glancing at a well-spread tea table, he said: "Mrs. Wilmott, if you think so well of me, perhaps you won't mind giving me a cup of tea. The fact is, I have been so busy with this case I forgot to eat and I I feel a little faint."
It was from her, also, that her grandson received the heart-breaking intelligence that young Malcolm Cameron had kissed Marjorie Scott, the minister's oldest girl, at the jog in the road, on the way to prayer-meeting one evening, and if it had not been for her vigilance probably no one would have discovered that Sawed-off Wilmott, who managed the cheese factory down on the Lake Simcoe road, allowed his pigs to run in and out of the factory at will.
They gave brilliant dinners, they had several automobiles, they did all the foolish and extravagant things that the others did and a few more. What was there that Pussy Wilmott had not done or would not do if the impulse seized her? This was a matter of tireless speculation in the ultra-chic salons through which this fascinating lady flitted, envied and censured.
Quick inquiries revealed the fact that Addison Wilmott was a well-known New Yorker, living in Paris, a man of leisure who was enjoying to the full a large inherited fortune. He and his dashing wife lived in a private hôtel on the Avenue Kleber, where they led a gay existence in the smartest and most spectacular circle of the American Colony.
It was not a gallant speech, but it rang true, a desperate cry from the soul depths of this unhappy man, and Pussy Wilmott shrank away as she listened. "Then why did you quarrel with Martinez?" demanded the judge. "Because he was interfering with a woman whom I did love and would fight for " "For God's sake, stop," whispered the lawyer.
"I don't ask you to spare me I've been no saint, God knows, and I'll take my medicine, but you can't drag an innocent girl into this thing just because you have the power." "Were you this woman's lover?" repeated the judge, and again he looked at his watch. "Three minutes!" Kittredge was in torture. Once his eyes turned to Mrs. Wilmott in a message of unspeakable bitterness.
Then, in a moment of sickening misery, Kittredge saw the door open and a black figure enter, a black figure with an ashen-white face and frightened eyes. It was Pussy Wilmott, treading the hard way of the transgressor with her hair done most becomingly, and breathing a delicate violet fragrance. "Take him into the outer room," directed the judge, "until I ring."
She was eighteen and had begun to look like a woman, and she felt that other girls of the town of her own age would not have dared to walk in such a place alone. The feeling made her somewhat proud and as she went along she looked boldly about. Among the workers in Wilmott Street, men and women who had been brought to town by the furniture manufacturer, were many who spoke in foreign tongues.
"Well, it's a bad business," continued old Hornblow. "Wilmott!" Let me see Belle Susanne I wonder why the fool called her by that name, as if I had not one already to take money out of my pocket. Oh! here it is folio 59 continued, folio 100, 129, 147, not balanced since April last year. Be quick, and strike me out a rough balance-sheet of the lugger." "But what does Captain McElvina say, father?"
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