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The hard set expression had gone, and she looked very alert and indescribably sweet. "Well, Mr. Garfield!" she cried merrily, shaking my hand in warm welcome, so different from her usual apathetic attitude towards me. "You see we're back again! Mother has just gone round to Aunt Alice's in Cromwell Road, but she told me that you would call." "Well, Miss Tennison!"
Yet, at others, she became vague and spoke in awed tones about what she had seen "all red, green and gold." And often I sat at home smoking and wondering what she had seen that had so impressed her. Often, too, I discussed it with Mrs. Tennison and with Harry Hambledon, but neither of us could suggest any solution of the mystery. Mrs.
"You have never heard of him in connexion with Miss Tennison? Is she acquainted with him?" "Not to my knowledge. Why do you ask?" "I have a distinct reason for asking," was my reply. "Remember that I am seeking to solve the enigma of your young mistress's present extraordinary state of mind. Any information you can give me will assist me towards that end."
Each morning, when I rose and dressed, I looked out upon the wide and somewhat uninteresting vista, racking my brains how to further proceed with my campaign against the great intriguer who could, by his immense wealth, juggle with dynasties. With Mrs. Tennison I had become on very friendly terms.
And she was Gabrielle Tennison. Of that I had no doubt, for the dates of our adventures corresponded. And yet a girl also named Gabrielle had died and her body had been cremated! The whole affair seemed to be beyond human credence. And yet you, my reader, have in this record the exact, hard and undeniable facts.
I asked quickly. "I think he became interested in her through one of the doctors to whom Mrs. Tennison took her." "Mrs. Tennison did not know Moroni before this affair?" I inquired. "No, sir. Not to my knowledge. He's a very nice gentleman, and has been awfully kind to Miss Gabrielle," replied Mrs. Alford.
"Well, I think that as Professor Gourbeil has cured two persons of the deadly effects of the drug Miss Tennison should see him," I remarked. "I quite agree. It is for that reason I have come to London," he said. "I understand that you, Mr.
"It seems incredible!" "Yes, Miss Tennison, I know it does," I replied. "But have patience, and I will prove to you the true depth of the villainy of our mutual enemy and his well-paid sycophants." Then, of a sudden, I grasped her soft hand in mine and for a few seconds held it. I looked steadily into her wonderful eyes, and then slowly I raised her hand to my lips and kissed it.
The person to whom the drug is administered either exhibits an exhilaration akin to undue excess of alcohol, or else the functions of the brain are entirely distorted, with a complete loss of memory or a chronic aberration of the brain." "That is the case of my friend Miss Tennison," I said. "Very well.
"So that was the second warning given you, Miss Tennison! It is more than ever plain that they fear lest, by meeting, we shall discover the plot and its instigators. What else did he say?" "He told me that Doctor Moroni was still in Florence, but that he would be coming to London again very soon, and that he would call.
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