FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106  
107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   >>   >|  
annot do it," said Martin, looking at Wanda. "You know my position--how I am watched." "There is only one person in Warsaw who can do it," said Wanda--"Paul Deulin." "Deulin could do it," said the prince, thoughtfully. "But I never talk to Deulin of these matters. Politics are a forbidden subject between us." "Then I will go and see Monsieur Deulin the first thing to-morrow morning," said Wanda, quietly. "You?" asked her father. And Martin looked at her in silent surprise. The old prince's eyes flashed suddenly. "Remember," he said, "that you run the risk of making people talk of you. They may talk of us--of Martin and me--the world has talked of the Bukatys for some centuries--but never of their women." "They will not talk of me," returned Wanda, composedly. "I will see to that. A word to Mr. Cartoner will be enough. I understood him to say that he was not going to stay long in Warsaw." The prince had acquired the habit of leaving many things to Wanda. He knew that she was wiser than Martin, and in some ways more capable. "Well," he said, rising. "I take no hand in it. It is very late. Let us go to bed." He paused half-way towards the door. "There is one thing," he said, "which we should be wise to recollect--that whatever Cartoner may know or may not know will go no farther. He is a diplomatist. It is his business to know everything and to say nothing." "Then, by Heaven, he knows his business!" cried Martin, with his reckless laugh. There are three entrances to the Hotel de l'Europe, two beneath the great archway on the Faubourg, where the carriages pass through into the court-yard--where Hermani was assassinated--where the people carried in the bodies of those historic five, whose mutilated corpses were photographed and hawked all through eastern Europe. The third is a side door, used more generally by habitues of the restaurant. It was to this third door that Wanda drove the next morning. She knew the porter there. He was in those days a man with a history and Wanda was not ignorant of it. "Miss Cahere--the American lady?" she said. And the porter gave her the number of Netty's room. He was too busy a man to offer to escort her thither. Wanda mounted the stairs along the huge corridor. She passed Netty's room, and ascended to the second story. All fell out as she had wished. At the head of the second staircase there is a little glass-partitioned room, where the servants sit when the
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106  
107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Martin

 

Deulin

 

prince

 

Cartoner

 

porter

 

people

 

Warsaw

 
morning
 

business

 

Europe


mutilated

 

Hermani

 

reckless

 

historic

 

corpses

 

photographed

 
carriages
 

assassinated

 

bodies

 

beneath


carried

 

entrances

 

archway

 

Faubourg

 

ascended

 

passed

 
corridor
 

mounted

 

stairs

 

partitioned


servants

 

wished

 

staircase

 

thither

 

escort

 

restaurant

 

habitues

 

generally

 
eastern
 

history


number
 
ignorant
 

Cahere

 
American
 

hawked

 
capable
 

surprise

 

flashed

 

silent

 

looked