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He went on between his teeth, "The Poulains have got some game on in connection with this thing. I wish I could guess what it is." And the Senator, much disliking his task, did speak to Madame Poulain. "I am arranging for Mrs. Dampier to stay with us, as our guest, till her husband's hem arrival. My son will find a room outside, so you need not disturb yourself about the matter.
"We know nothing of this man Dampier," he said, "but I would stake my life on Mrs. Dampier's truthfulness." The Senator rose from his chair. Gerald's attitude was generous; he would not have had him otherwise but still he felt irritated by his son's suspicion of the Poulains.
Frezier says, that he has been credibly informed by eye-witnesses, that some of these were about nine or ten feet high. I had sight of two of these Indians, who came from the southward of St Domingo river, one of whom was a cacique, who did not seem to me to differ in their persons from the ordinary natives of Chiloe. They were decently clothed in ponchos, monteras, and poulains.
The Senator turned and went back into the courtyard, leaving his daughter and the young Englishwoman alone together. "The Poulains seem such odd, queer people," said Nancy hesitatingly. "D'you think so? We've always found them all right," said the girl, smiling. "Of course they're dreadfully busy just now because of the Exhibition.
The hotel is full of French people, and they give Madame Poulain a great deal of trouble. But she doesn't grudge it, for she and her husband are simply coining money! They're determined that their daughter shall have a splendid dowry!" She waited a moment, and then repeated, "Oh, yes, the Poulains are very good sort of people. They're very kindly and good-natured."
She spoke quite simply and straightforwardly, and the Senator felt oddly relieved by her words. He tried to remember exactly what had happened, what exactly the Poulains had said, when he had gone into the big roomy kitchen which lay to the left of the courtyard. He had certainly been quite clear.
"Well, Mr. Burton?" He shook his head despondently. "We found nothing, absolutely nothing which could connect your husband with any one of the rooms which we searched, Mrs. Dampier. If, after leaving you, he did spend the night in the Hotel Saint Ange, the Poulains have obliterated every trace of his presence."
Somehow the fact that Daisy was anxious to say that she disagreed with him stung the Senator. "Then what do you think of the Poulains?" he asked quietly "the Poulains, whom you have known, my dear, ever since you were fifteen on whose honesty and probity I personally would stake a good deal. What do you think about them?" Daisy began to look very troubled.
"Let me go down with you now," she said eagerly. "The truth is I know you'll think me foolish but I'm afraid of the Poulains! They've behaved so oddly and so rudely to me this morning. I liked them very much last night." "Yes," he said cordially. "We'll go right down now; and my girl, Daisy, can come too."
Two facts started out clearly her almost painful gratitude to the Burtons and her shrinking terror of the Poulains, or rather of Madame Poulain, the woman who had looked fixedly into her face and lied. As to what had happened to Dampier, Nancy's imagination began to whisper things of unutterable dread.
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