“Okay. “How have you been lately, Lucy? You’ve been such a stranger. He never asked questions; he never addressed his companions; and frequently he took off his cap and wiped his forehead. For my blood you made it very hot indeed. Easy enough. “Rubbish!” he answered. He ushered them with an amiable flat hand into a minute apartment with a little gas-stove, a silk crimson-covered sofa, and a bright little table, gay with napery and hot-house flowers. A chain, riveted to an iron belt encircling her waist, bound her to the wall. ‘Because he knows you for an imposter,’ Melusine flashed. ’ ‘What heir?’ ‘Exactly. Both, perhaps?’ At that, her eyes darkened with fury. ‘No mistaking you this time. So was I, in fact. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. Picked up the photograph, looked at it, handed it back, and never batted an eye! The act was as clear as daylight, but the motive was as profoundly mysterious as the race itself.
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