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"Why!" ejaculated the Count in sudden amazement, pointing to her uncovered hand. "What does that mean?" She wore upon her finger a wedding ring! Her face went crimson. For a moment the pretty girl was too confused to speak. "Ah!" she cried in a low, earnest tone, as she bent towards him. "Forgive me, Bindo. I I did not tell you. How could I?" "You should have told me. It was your duty to tell me.
Against the dark oak, from floor to ceiling, the dresses of the women showed well, and, amid the laughter and chatter, I saw the gay, careless Bindo a well-set-up, manly figure in his evening clothes standing beside his hostess, chatting and laughing with her, while Sir Charles was bending over the chair of a pretty, fair-haired girl in turquoise, whom I recognised as the same girl I had seen with Paul at Scarborough.
They never met unless absolutely necessary in order to arrange some ingenious piece of trickery, and they could all live weeks at the same hotel without either, by word or sign, betraying previous knowledge of each other. Indeed, Count Bindo di Ferraris was the very acme of well-dressed, well-groomed scoundrelism.
Jacobi himself was, it seemed, on friendly terms with Bindo. Sometimes I saw the pair strolling together at Pancaldi's, and once the young Marquis of Rapallo was with them. One hot, stifling night, a brilliant ball was held, arranged at the Princess's instigation, in the cause of charity.
"But tell me, Regnier," I urged, "why should I drop her?" "I suppose Bindo has placed her in your hands, eh? He's left the Riviera, and left you to look after her!" "Well, and what of that? Do you object? We're not interfering with any of your plans, are we?" The pair exchanged glances. In the countenances of both was a curious look, one which aroused my suspicion.
Bindo accepted with profuse thanks, and shot me a glance by which I knew that he had advanced one step further towards the consummation of his secret intentions whatever they were. Sir Charles would, no doubt, go with us. What, I wondered, was intended? Three weeks later we arrived one evening at St.
They wished, it seemed, to talk in private, and they did so until, half an hour later, I received orders to bring round the car, and drove them all three back to Nice, which we reached in plenty of time for dinner. "Now, you will not forget, Gabrielle? You're sure?" said Bindo in French as he handed her out of the car and shook her hand as he bared his head.
The road was well known to me, all the way from the Channel to the Mediterranean. Bindo and I had done it together at least a dozen times. Since leaving Clifford Street I had eaten a hasty meal, picked up a couple of new "non-skids" at the depôt where we dealt, oiled up, filled the petrol tank, and given the engine a general look round.
In an instant I recognised Valentine, who was dressed in a long travelling coat with fur collar, and a sealskin toque. She was carrying something beneath her coat. "Quick!" she said breathlessly. "Let us get away. Get ready. Count Bindo is following me!" And ere I could start the engines, my employer, in a long dark overcoat and felt hat, hurriedly approached us, saying
"Probably because you have traps in Northamptonshire," Bindo replied. "There are always lurking constables along the Great North Road and the highways leading into it. But you must let me come and take your driver's place for a little while. If the cars are worth anything at all, I'll get the last mile out of them." "I only wish you would come and pay me a visit, Mr. Cornforth.
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