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Updated: June 26, 2025
Perhaps there was, but a more intimate acquaintance with the character of Nella Racksole would have been necessary in order to predict what precise form that romance would take. Jules himself served the liquids, and at ten o'clock he brought another note.
It was a painful and difficult business to ascend that thin and yielding ladder in such a confined space, but Racksole was managing it very nicely, and had nearly reached the top, when, by some untoward freak of chance, the ladder broke above his weight, and he slipped ignominiously down to the bottom of the wooden tube. Smothering an excusable curse, Racksole crouched, baffled.
'Nella tells me, Mr Dimmock, that you hold a confidential position with Prince Aribert of Posen, said Racksole. 'You will pardon an American's ignorance, but is Prince Aribert a reigning Prince what, I believe, you call in Europe, a Prince Regnant? 'His Highness is not a reigning Prince, nor ever likely to be, answered Dimmock.
'Now see here, Miss Spencer, Racksole said calmly, 'I guess we've had enough of this fandango. You'd better get up and clear out, or we'll just have to drag you off. He went calmly up to her, the lantern in his hand. Without another word she struck the knife into his arm, and the lantern fell extinguished. Racksole gave a cry, rather of angry surprise than of pain, and retreated a few steps.
He was inhaling the aromatic odours of Eugene Rimmel's establishment for the sale of scents when a gentleman, walking slowly in the opposite direction, accosted him with a quiet, 'Good evening, Mr Racksole. The millionaire did not at first recognize his interlocutor, who wore a travelling overcoat, and was carrying a handbag.
The stars overhead looked down with many blinkings upon the enormous pile of the Grand Babylon, and the moon regarded it with bland and changeless face; what they thought of it and its inhabitants cannot, unfortunately, be recorded. What Theodore Racksole thought of the moon can be recorded: he thought it was a nuisance.
'Nonsense, said Racksole brusquely; 'how can they know? And, taking hold of the knob, he violently shook the door, and it opened. 'I told you it wasn't locked, he added, and this small success of opening the door seemed to steady the man. Gradually they both recovered from it. The next moment they were out in the passage which led to the front door of the house. The front door stood open.
'Then you have missed your vocation. You could have been the greatest of all hotel-managers. You would have been greater than me, and I am unequalled, though I keep only one hotel, and some men have half a dozen. Mr Racksole, why have you never run an hotel? 'Heaven knows, he laughed, 'but you flatter me, Mr Babylon. 'I? Flatter? You do not know me.
The mere presence of the princes in his hotel roused the fighting instincts of this man, who had never in his whole career been beaten. He had, as it were, taken up arms on their side, and if the princes of Posen would not continue their own battle, nevertheless he, Theodore Racksole, wanted to continue it for them.
Every consideration of prudence points to the advisability of taking the police into our confidence, and leaving the matter entirely in their hands. 'Oh, Papa! Nella burst out in her pouting, impulsive way. 'You surely can't think of such a thing. Why, the fun has only just begun. 'Do you call last night fun? questioned Racksole, gazing at her solemnly. 'Yes, I do, she said promptly. 'Now.
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