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Phineas Duge in London was still a man of affairs. With a cigar in his mouth, and his hands behind his back, he was strolling about his handsomely furnished sitting-room at Claridge's, dictating to a secretary, while from an adjoining room came the faint click of a typewriter. Virginia entered somewhat unceremoniously, followed by Guy. Phineas Duge looked at them both in some surprise.
You must send your solicitor to see me to-morrow." "Virginia knows," Guy answered, "that I should be only too glad to have her without a sixpence." "I myself am fond of money," Phineas Duge answered, smiling, "but I think that if I were your age I should feel very much the same." "Uncle," Virginia said, "I have seen Mr. Vine and Stella, and I have given them your message.
However, as I say, the paper is in safe hands, but not my father's. You will probably hear something about it before long." "For God's sake, tell me who has it, Miss Duge!" he implored. "You can't understand what this means to us. We were fools to sign it, I know; but your father insisted, and we had, I suppose, a weak moment. After all, there isn't anything so very terrible about it.
There would, I imagine, be no hiding place in London so secure as the Embassy safe which I see in the corner of your study!" "You suggest, then," Mr. Deane said slowly, "that Norris Vine has deposited that document in my keeping." "I not only suggest it," Duge answered, "but I am thoroughly convinced that such is the fact. Can you deny it?" Mr. Deane shrugged his shoulders.
He seems to possess some sort of attraction for your family." Phineas Duge looked at the speaker coldly, and Littleson felt that somehow, somewhere, he had blundered. He made a great show of commencing his first course. "Let me know exactly," Phineas Duge said, a moment or two later, "what you have done with regard to the man Vine." Littleson glanced cautiously around. "I have seen him," he said.
"She made your acquaintance somehow," Phineas Duge continued, "and you were seen out with her at different restaurants; once, I believe, at a place of amusement. She left her boarding-house and took rooms here in this building. Her room, I find, was across the corridor, only a few feet away from yours. What is there between you and my niece, Norris Vine?"
In fact, I can truthfully say that I have rather enjoyed the whole proceeding. To tell you the truth," he continued, moving across the room and taking a cigarette from the mantelpiece and lighting it, "when I heard that you were in England, I was exceedingly curious to know what your methods would be. 'Phineas Duge the Invincible' they have called you.
Duge said, as he lit a cigarette, "always remember what I told you about that man. Be especially on your guard if ever you are brought into contact with him. I happen to know that he registered a vow, a year ago, that before five years were past he would ruin me." "I will remember," Virginia faltered. Mr.
The American ambassador was giving the third of his great dinner-parties. At the last moment he had prevailed upon Phineas Duge to accept an invitation.
He was forced to face the truth, that he, Phineas Duge, the man of many millions, sat there while the minutes fled past, looking with empty eyes into empty space, thinking of the child whom he would have given at that moment more than he would have cared to confess, to have found sitting within a few feet of him, peeling his walnuts, or pouring out her impressions of this wonderful new life into which she had come.
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