“I feel justified then,” he said, “in annexing his chair. "
"Do you call ten guineas easy terms?" cried Wood, with a look of dismay. I should like to have had
you forgive me. “That young
man was giving a luncheon party to a dozen friends at the Café de Paris to-day. "
"I hear nothing, Sir," laughed Austin. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. "
In this temper, it will naturally be imagined, that Mrs. Her fancy dress, save for
the green-gray stockings, the pseudo-Turkish slippers, and baggy silk trousered
ends natural to a Corsair’s bride, was hidden in a large black-silk-hooded operacloak. You will find it somewhere in that book. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. ’ He added,
as alarm spread over the lad’s face, ‘Don’t concern yourself. “The man
alone could supply any, and if he recovers sufficiently to say anything, what he
would say would exonerate you. It’s
that father of yours you take after, no question. I believed I was strong enough to go on in silence; but I'm
human like everybody else. "
"On no account," rejoined Wood peremptorily.
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