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Together they forced a little between her lips, and watched the colour coming back into her cheeks. Then Phineas Duge withdrew his arm and walked to the other side of the desk. On the floor were the broken fragments of Virginia's locket. The carpet had been torn up. The steel coffer, with the keys still in it, was there half open.
They are coming to dine with us at eight o'clock to-night. Couldn't we couldn't ?" Phineas Duge interrupted with a little shrug of the shoulders. "Make it into a family party, I suppose you were going to say?" he remarked. "My niece hopes that you too will join us," he added, turning to the young man. Guy raced back to Grosvenor Square. He found Lady Medlincourt playing bridge in the card-room.
"Why didn't you ask to read the thing through again?" Higgins demanded. "I wish I had," Weiss answered gloomily. Bardsley, a large man, with grey beard and moustache, and coarse, hard face, spoke for the first time. "Do any of you know," he asked, "whereabouts in that infernal little room of his Duge keeps his papers?" Weiss looked up. "I am not sure," he said.
"We are playing a child's game, all of us." "Whatever the game may be," Duge answered, "it is not I who invented it." "We grant that to start with," Weiss answered. "We were in the wrong. You have done a little better than hold your own against us. We are several millions of dollars the poorer and you the richer for our split. Let it go at that.
"If you advise him one way or the other," Phineas Duge said, "you give the lie to your own statement, that in diplomacy there are no politics. Your advice will show on which side you intend to stand." "I have not given any advice," Deane replied. "Nor must you," Phineas Duge said pleasantly enough. "It is not your affair at all, Mr. Deane.
In the meantime, to revert to business, am I right in concluding that you have nothing to say to me, that you do not wish even to discuss a certain matter?" "You are right in your assumption, sir," Norris Vine answered. "I see no purpose in it. What I may do or leave undone would never be influenced by anything that you might say." Phineas Duge turned toward the door. Norris Vine followed him.
Granted that she came upon a silly errand, still it was not wholly her own fault, and she was only a simple child who ought never to have been permitted to have left America," "Up to that point, Mr. Duge," Vine said drily, "I am entirely in accord with you."
"I snatched them up," she murmured, "and ran. I am sure they will come after me. And Vine I think that that man will kill Vine. His fingers were upon his throat when I left." "You brought them," Phineas Duge asked calmly, "from Norris Vine's rooms?" She had no time to answer. The door was opened. Norris Vine stood there on the threshold.
Vine," he said, "but answer my questions." "Your niece," Norris Vine said, "came over here to rob me, at whose instigation I can only surmise. My first introduction to her was in my room, where she came as a thief. What consideration have you ever shown, Phineas Duge, even to the innocent who have crossed your paths?
"Nothing whatever, I am sorry to say," Mr. Deane answered. "Well, there remains the other matter," Duge answered. "You and I have already had a few words concerning that, and I am pleased to see that up to the present, at any rate, our friend Mr. Vine has been governed by the dictates of common sense.
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