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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Since that's settled" of a sudden the imploring child was replaced by self-possessed Mademoiselle Athenais Reneaux "you may have your hand back again. I assure you I have no more use for it." The hansom turned off the boulevard, affording Lanyard an opportunity to look back through the side window. "Still on the trail," he announced. "But they've got the lights on now."
Since you leave it to me, shall we say the Ritz, at half past seven? In case your memory for faces is poor it has been a long time since we met, hasn't it? I shall be wearing the conventional fast black with my very best ingenue expression; and my feather fan will be flame-coloured. "Always to you "Athenais Reneaux." Now that sounded more like ...
Now from the shelter of the café canopy Lanyard and Athenais Reneaux looked out upon a pave like a river of jet ribboned with gently glowing lights and running between the low banks of sidewalks no less black: both deserted but for a few belated prowlers lurching homeward through the drizzle, and a rank of private cars waiting near the entrance.
From its gloomy walls the halting clatter of hoofs struck empty echoes that rang in Lanyard's heart like a refrain from some old song. To that very tune had the gay world gone about its affaires in younger years, when the Lone Wolf was a living fact and not a fading memory in the minds of men... He sighed heavily. "Monsieur is sentimental," commented Athenais Reneaux lightly. "Beware!
Thus the face of an evil woman of middle-age, debauched beyond hope of redemption, was hideously revealed. Lanyard knew a qualm at seeing it, and looked hastily away. Beyond the rank of tables which stood between him and the dancing floor he saw Athenais Reneaux with Le Brun sweeping past in the suave movement of a waltz.
Show a little respect for my grey hairs, of which there are far too many." "They're most becoming," said Athenais Reneaux demurely. "But tell me about Liane, if it isn't a secret." "Oh! that was so long ago and such a trifling thing, one wonders at remembering it at all.... I happened, one night, to be where I had no right to be. That was rather a habit of mine, I'm afraid.
Lanyard paused to sip his brandy and soda, and, under cover of that, summon ingenuity to the fore; here a little hand-made fabrication was indicated. "We waited till about half an hour ago. So did the spy. Mademoiselle Reneaux then let me out by a private way. I started to walk to my hotel, the Chatham. There wasn't a taxi to be had, you understand.
The automobile, running without lights, went no faster, kept a certain distance behind us all the way from the Place Pigalle to the apartment of Mademoiselle Reneaux. What have you to say to that? Furthermore, when Mademoiselle Reneaux had persuaded me to take refuge in her apartment who knew what they designed? one man left the automobile as it passed her door and stood on watch across the way.
Uneasy about him as long as he remains at large. Fully appreciate you cannot trust yourself alone in the dark. Therefore cheerfully delegating preservation your virtue while in Paris to Mlle. Athenais Reneaux, maiden lady mature charms whom I beg you will respect as you would my sister. Wishing you enjoyable intellectual evening
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