’
‘Then Gérard may come back,’ Melusine cried involuntarily on a sudden
rising hope. I asked you to go. But he can't have his eyes always about him, or he'd have
been with us this morning at the Mint, eh, Mr. ” Michelle reported. They alighted at the restaurant, and stood for a moment in the passage looking
into the crowded room. ”
She spoke with a certain asperity. ” He said. He knew she would be there, practicing
alone in 118. “There’s no end of things I’d like to
talk over with you. I had to sell out, you see, when my father
died, for the estate is in my hands. ”
She pointed with shaking fingers to a great bunch of dark red carnations, thrust
carelessly into a deep china bowl, to which the card was still attached. ’
Madame gave one of those breathy laughs. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. “She has been to my flat
before. If the creator drew a hero anything like himself, she would accept it
as a sign that he did care a little.
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