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Millicent's words instantly confirmed Margaret's suspicions. The unscrupulous woman had secured at least a part of the buried gold. Margaret wondered if it would be wise to attack her on the subject. She refrained; instinct cautioned her. With Margaret it was always a case of When in doubt, hold your tongue. "What a fortunate coincidence!" she said coldly. "How very odd!"
Nearly all the novelists on Messrs Beit's list were ladies, their works all ran to three volumes, and all of them pleased the Press, the Review, and Miranda of Smart Society. One of these books, Millicent's Marriage, by Sarah Pocklington Sanders, was pronounced fit to lie on the school-room table, on the drawing-room bookshelf, or beneath the pillow of the most gently nurtured of our daughters.
In all her smooth, conventionally ordered life she had never experienced such a strong emotion. The Prince glanced at her, and the fierceness went out of his eyes. He bowed gravely with the most courtly homage, and left her standing by Millicent's side.
The sight of Millicent's cowering figure brought back to him, with the quickness of light, the evening in the desert when he had flung her from him in his agony of temptation. "She came to give us some information, Mike. Tell him, Millicent, why you have come." Millicent took no notice of Margaret's words. She was crouching on the sofa, her face still buried in her hands.
Michael was in blissful ignorance of the fact that the servant whom he had sent back to Freddy Lampton's hut in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, bearing a letter to Margaret, in which he had told her everything that had happened not omitting Millicent's visit and her sudden departure had never even reached Luxor. He had fallen sick by the way and had died of smallpox in a desert village.
You know, madam, what a horrid Roundhead the blacksmith is; Robin saith he wishes in his heart he never had to go near him. Mrs Millicent's eyes went up till more white than iris was visible. "Very shocking, truly," said Mrs Lane. "Well, what further?"
Leslie glared at him speechless until, with a humble little nod, the servant said: "Linga linga bell; too much hullee, John quick come. Wantee someling. Linga linga bell." "Go the devil. Oh, get out before I throw you," roared Leslie, and John vanished with the waft of a blue gown, while Millicent's book crashed against the door close behind his head.
"You'll leave my camp at once, this very day! I've had more than enough of you!" Millicent's eyes, as unflinching as Michael's, laughed triumphantly. "What about my food and medicine for your sick man, your valuable guide to the hidden treasure? You can't afford to let him slip through your hands!" Michael's eyes dropped.
Millicent's first action after quitting the salle
Sir Ulick O'Shane, of course, recommended it to his ward: to Lady Millicent's credit, she inveighed against it with honest indignation. "What!" said Sir Ulick, smiling, "you are shocked at the idea of Lord Chesterfield's advising his pupil at Paris to prefer a reputable affair with a married woman, to a disreputable intrigue with an opera girl!
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