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Ah, but you must long for the dear bonnet strings of madame?" Did he? As she spoke Mr. Greyne asked himself the question. Shocked as he was, fatigued by his researches, did he wish that he were back again in Belgrave Square, drinking barley water, pasting notices of his wife's achievements into the new album, listening while she read aloud from the manuscript of her latest novel?
Greyne began seriously to consider whether it would not be better to pay him a last douceur, and tell him to go about his business. Before doing this, however, Mr. Greyne desired to have one more interview with the mysterious Ouled on the heights, to whom he owed the knowledge which would henceforth enable him to cut out the militia. He said so to Abdallah Jack.
And now he was utterly alone, almost like Robinson Crusoe. The contrôleur came in to make the bed. Mr. Greyne told him the dreadful story. "No doubt he has been lured away, monsieur. The dressing-case was of value?" "Crocodile, gold fittings." "Probably monsieur will never see him again. As likely as not he will sleep in the Seine to-night, and at the morgue to-morrow." Mr. Greyne shuddered.
Calm were the waters, calm and blue. No cloud appeared in the sky. The fierce activities of the ship had ceased, and Mademoiselle Verbena tripped upon the deck at an early hour, to find Mr. Greyne already installed there, and looking positively cheerful. He started up as he perceived her, and chivalrously escorted her to a chair.
It was visible upon the faces of most of those surrounding Mrs. Greyne and Mrs. Forbes. Indeed, even the latter showed some signs of it, although the large shadow cast over her features by the hind side of her Mother Hubbard bonnet to some extent disguised them from the public view. "Till what hour?" pursued Mrs. Greyne in a voice of almost yearning tenderness and pity.
Abdallah Jack had apparently been most anxious to assist at Mr. Greyne's interview with the Ouled, but Mr. Greyne had declined to allow this. The evil temper of the guide was beginning to get thoroughly upon his employer's nerves, and even the natural desire to have an interpreter at hand was overborne by the dislike of Abdallah Jack's morose eyes and sarcastic speeches about women.
She is a lady of the utmost respectability known to all the town. You go to her house at eight, you take coffee upon the red sofas, you talk with La Belle, you see the dances and hear the music. Do not fear, sir; it is good, it is respectable as England, your country " "If it is respectable I don't want to see it," interposed Mr. Greyne. "It would be a waste of time."
Mr. Greyne looked at his wife with reverence. In such moments he realized, almost too poignantly, her great position. "I will be careful," he said. "What would you recommend me to say?" "Well" Mrs.
Greyne to purchase African necessaries: a small but well-supplied medicine chest, a pith helmet, a white-and-green umbrella, a Baedeker, a couple of Smith & Wesson Springfield revolvers with a due amount of cartridges, a dozen of Merrin's exercise-books on mature reflection Mrs.
"She sleeps, monsieur, in the white sands of Ismailia, beside the bitter lake. I trust that madame can now go on with the respectable 'Catherine." And with an ironic reverence to Mrs. Eustace Greyne she placed her hand in Abdallah Jack's and vanished from the room. "Catherine's Repentance," published in a gigantic volume not many weeks ago, was preceded by Mr. Eustace Greyne's.
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