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Oh, do not be afraid, you are quite as pretty as ever you were!" The tears were running down Sylvia's face. She felt that she ought to be very angry with her friend for speaking thus plainly to her, and yet she could not be angry. Anna spoke so tenderly, so kindly, so delicately. "Shall we go away from Lacville?" asked Madame Wolsky, suddenly.
But the other road leads straight to the House of Peril." "The House of Peril?" echoed Sylvia Bailey. "Yes, Madame. Do you not know that all men and women have their House of Peril the house whose threshold they should never cross behind whose door lies misery, sometimes dishonour?" "Yes," said Anna Wolsky, "that is true, quite true! There has been, alas! more than one House of Peril in my life."
It might have been terrible. But no, it is a great piece of good fortune for Madame Wolsky!" And still Sylvia did not understand. They walked together up to the table, and then, with amazement and a curious feeling of fear clutching at her heart, Sylvia Bailey saw that Anna Wolsky was holding the Bank. It was the first time she had ever seen a lady in the Banker's seat.
Anna Wolsky was a proud woman, and Sylvia suspected that if she had come unexpectedly to the end of her resources, she would have preferred to go away rather than confide her trouble to a new friend. Tears slowly filled Sylvia Bailey's blue eyes. She felt deeply hurt by Anna's strange conduct.
But Sylvia, blushing, shook her head. She certainly had no wish to sit down. "I only came in to look for a friend," she said, hesitatingly; "but my friend is not here." And she was making her way out of the Salle des Jeux, feeling rather disconsolate and disappointed, when suddenly, in the vestibule, she saw Madame Wolsky walking towards her in the company of a middle-aged man.
Anna Wolsky was never really happy, she did not feel more than half alive, when away from the green cloth. She had only left Monte Carlo when the heat began to make the place unbearable to one of her northern temperament, and she was soon moving on to one of the French watering-places, where gambling of sorts can be indulged in all the summer through.
They still met daily, if only at the Casino, and they occasionally took a walk or a drive together, but Madame Wolsky and Sylvia Bailey felt uneasy and growing concern that it was so now lived for play, and play alone. Absorbed in the simple yet fateful turns of the game, Anna would remain silent for hours, immersed in calculations, and scarcely aware of what went on round her.
He had put his right hand the hand holding the thing he had taken out of the drawer behind his back. He was very pale; the sweat had broken out on his sallow, thin face. For a horrible moment there floated across Sylvia's sub-conscious mind the thought of Anna Wolsky, and of what she now knew to have been Anna Wolsky's fate.
Nay more, Anna Wolsky had become it was really rather odd that it should be so the first intimate friend of her own sex Sylvia had made since she was a grown-up woman. "I do believe in fortune-tellers," said Madame Wolsky deliberately, "and that being so I shall spend my afternoon in going up to Montmartre, to the Rue Jolie, to hear what this Cagliostra has to say.
Old Fritz is the worst type of gambler the type that believes he is going to get rich, rich beyond dreams of avarice, by a 'system. Such a man will do anything for money. I believe they knew far more of the disappearance of Madame Wolsky than anyone else did." The Count lowered his voice, and leant over the table. "I have suspected," he went on "nay, I have felt sure from the very first, Mr.
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