Part 34 (2/2)
Then she stopped, confused and silent
”Mon Dieu!” she exclai!”
”No,” I said dully, ”He has been most discreet But does it make any real difference, Mademoiselle, except that I kno that the Marquis was a man of very keen discrimination?”
”Are you mad?” cried Mademoiselle, ”I tell you it is not your father I tell you I--”
Her face had grown scarlet She bowed her head, and tugged more violently than ever at the corner of her handkerchief
”Mademoiselle,” I said unsteadily, ”Mademoiselle, as it he told you at Blanzy?”
”I cannot tell you if you do not know,” she answered, ”Indeed I cannot”
”But you will!” I cried ”You will, Mademoiselle! You ain
”They were breaking in the door,” she began, ”and he was going down to o, to leave ain, watching ue embarrassment
”He said he'd be damned if he would, Monsieur He said he would do what the Marquis had directed, if he had to swing for it That he would take the paper and me to America--that IMon Dieu! Do you not knohat he said! Can you not guess? He said that I was to marry his son”
A smile suddenly played about her lips
”And I told him,” she continued breathlessly, ”I told him I'd be damned if I would, Monsieur That neither he nor the Marquis would make me marry a man I did not know, much less a son of his!”
”And when you asked him to recall it--Mademoiselle, when you asked him to recall it, did you mean--tell me, Mademoiselle!”
”Ah,” she whispered, ”but it is too soon, and you are too rough, Monsieur! I beg of you--be careful! Besides--so”
And then I heard a soft footstep behind o tell the captain No It is all right I tell the captain He is happy It will please hi speech see broadly
”Huh!” he said finally ”Mr Lawton shoot Mr Jason Shoot him with pistol off the table The captain is happy”
But before Brutus could turn to go, e on his arm
”Let us say relieved, Brutus,” he answered serous ever to use superlatives”
Then he glanced from Mademoiselle to me, and his smile broadened
”Very much relieved,” he said, ”and yet--and yet I still feel thirsty
The rum decanter, Brutus”