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That evening Lilas, Jim, and Max Melcher dined together in very good spirits; and, strangely enough, the girl showed an excellent appetite for one so troubled in soul. Wharton was as good as his word. Not only did he put Lilas in funds, but he exerted his every power of persuasion to rouse her from her despondency and reawaken a healthy desire for life.
I don't even turn my head to spit when I'm sitting in with a fellow like you. Lilas has got something on her mind, and I believe I'll cable her the price of a ticket." That was enough for Jim. He began to weaken, and at last made a clean breast of all the circumstances surrounding Jarvis Hammon's death rather than risk the result of a meeting between Max and Lilas.
As she watched the effect of her words Lilas felt that her satisfaction was now complete; the man's slack jaw, his staring, bloodshot eyes convinced her that this moment was all that she had wished it to be. "You'll settle with her for a million, and then you'll settle with me for this." She indicated the elaborate apartment with a gesture. "You think this ends our affair, don't you?
I couldn't leave town if I wanted to." The numbing force of the calamity coming at this of all times fairly stupefied Bob, rendering him incapable of clear analysis or even of the suspicions his ordinary intelligence would have prompted. "Why doesn't Snell get busy?" he inquired, blankly, at which Lilas lost her patience. "Don't you see he's in on the graft? Snell doesn't want to pinch us.
"Oh, Miss Lynn; I hope I drop dead if " "Don't talk back to me. You always have an excuse, haven't you?" Lilas's voice was strident; her face was dark with sudden anger. "I've a notion to box your ears " Lorelei broke in reprovingly. "Lilas! Croft is old enough to be your mother." "Yes, and she's old enough to have some sense, but she hasn't got it." "I hope I drop dead if "
It seemed to him, therefore, that the only way of gaining time was to pay Lilas enough to satisfy her. The more he thought of this the more imperative seemed the necessity, but when he ventured to submit the proposition to Merkle the banker curtly refused to entertain it.
Now Bob, like all men in his condition, was quite certain that he was in perfect possession of his faculties, and therefore he very naturally resented such an absurd assertion. "Don't you b'lieve it," he protested. "I know what I'm doing, all right, all right." "A man never speaks his mind until he's ginned," Lilas giggled. "Righto! I'm not half drunk yet."
"Oh, he doesn't care what becomes of me. It's it's " Lilas broke out in a passion: "I never thought I was putting you in his power, and and Lorelei, too and Jim, and Mr. Merkle. Of course you won't believe that, but I can't help what you think. I wouldn't blame you for killing me. Why, I'd go to the chair to keep you people clear, but those are the facts. Now you've got it all."
We may be grateful to Amy Lowell for having assembled for our consummation, in a world where poetry is not as yet the sublime issue as it was to be felt at every street corner, much of the spirit of the rue de Rome, the Café Novelles D'Athènes, and the Closerie de Lilas, as well as the once famed corner of the Café D'Harcourt where the absinthe flowed so continuously, and from which some very exquisite poetry has emanated for all time.
"I'll furnish all the money you want." She looked her gratitude again. "You must buck up and try to get well." For some time the two men jointly attempted to argue Lilas out of her black despondency, and when they left it was with a hard-won promise that she would do nothing definite at once. Outside the room Jim heaved a sigh of relief. "Whew!
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