The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, June 21, 1907, Image 3
o&smseb stmi ($ma&3 m A MAKI irjuiiuaai.ian 1 V m i- OF HISTORY By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM, Author of "The Master Mummer." "A Prince of Sinners," "Mysterious Mr. Sabln," "Anna the Adventuress," Etc. &. Copyrltfht, 1D05, 1000, by LITTLE. DROWN, and COMPANY. ,i ti tCONTINUID.J 1 "You can 11ml mu a table, I suppose?" Duncombe remarked, looking routul. "Whoro shall I sit?" M. Alfred shook his hend slowly. Ills hnmls were outstretched, his mau liur snd, but resigned. "I nui very sorry, mouslour, but to night every place Is taken. I have had to turn others away already," ho do dared. "A thousand regrets." Duncombe looked at him astonished. The place was more than half empty. "Surely you can find me a small ta Lie somewhere." ho said. "I was hero last evening, you know. If It Is be cause I am alone I will order supper for two and magnum of wine." M. Alfred was Immovable. lie re membered Duncombe well, and lie was proud of his patronage, but tonight It was impossible to offer him a table. Duncombe began to be annoyed. "Very well," he said; "I will stay In the liar. You can't turn mo out of time, can you?" M. Alfred was evasive. He desired I. Duncombe to bo amused, and tho people who remained in the bar well, Jt was not possible to got rid of them, but they were not fitting company for him. "There Is the Cafe Mazarln," he add 1 confidentially, "a few steps only from here, a most amusing place. The most wonderful ladies there, too very rule nnd crowded every night. Mon sieur should really try it. Tho com missionaire would direct him a few .yards only." "Much obliged to you," Duncombe answered, turning on his heel. "I may look in there preseutly." He seated himself at a small round table and ordered a drink. The pcoplo Jiere were of a slightly different class from those who hud the entree to tho supper room and were mostly crowded round the bar Itself. At a small desk within a few feet of him a middle aged woman with a cold, hard face sat, with -a book of accounts before her and a pile of bills. There was something al most sphinxlike about her appearance. She never spoke. Her expression never changed. Once their eyes met. She look ed at him steadfastly, but said noth ing. The girl behind the bar also took jiote of him. She was very tall and slim, absolutely colorless aud with -colls of fair hair drawn tightly back .from her forehead. She was never without a cigarette, lighting n fresh one always from its predecessor, talk ing all the while unceasingly, but with out the slightest change of expression. o ' I a;::s;ncsi, ' srie ?!!!, sun' wuiwu fv glancing toward htm, "but I know that M. Alfred does not wisli him to re main." "The devil take M. Alfred!" Dun combe answered angrily. "I am wait ing to speak to some one who comes hero regularly, and I shall stay until they come." The woman wrote steadily for a mo ment. Then she blotted tho page on which she had been writing and, rais ing her head, looked at him. "It Is no affair of mine," she said, "but M. Alfred has sent- for the police. They may say that you have had too much wine or that you owe money. In either case you will bo removed. Tho I police will not listen to you. M. Alfred1 has special discretion. It is no affair of mine," she repeated, "but if I were! monsieur I would go." Duncombe rose slowly to his feet and, summoning a waiter, paid his bill. ' The man produced a second one, dated a few days back, for a large amount. "What Is the meaning of this?" ho asked. "I do not owe you any tiling." "Monsieur was here with a party lust Thursday night," he said glibly. "Ho promised to pay the next time. I will call the malinger." Duncombe tore tho bill In half and turned away. Ho bowed to the lady at the deslc. "I see that you were right," he said. "I will leave." "Monsieur Is wise," she answered, without looking up. Ho left tho cafe without speaking to any one further. When lie reached tho pnvement lie slipped a five franc piece into the hand of the tall commission aire. "You know most of the young ladles who come here, I suppose?" he asked. "But certainly!" the man answered, with a smile. "Monsieur desire?" "I want the address of a young lady named Mermllllon. Flossie, I think, they call her," Duncombe said. "Th'irty-one Hue l'lgaiie," tho man nnswercd promptly. "But she should be hero within an hour. She never misses." Duncombe thanked him and hailed a carriage. "Shall I give mademoiselle any mes sago?" the man asked confidentially. "I am going to call for her," Dun combe answered. "If I do not find hot I will return." To drive to tho Rue Tigalle was an affair of five minutes only. Duncombe climbed u couple of flights of narrow stairs, pushed open a swing gate aud found himself In front of an otllce In which an elderly woman snt reading. "Can you tell mo where to find Mile. Mermllllon?" Duncombe asked. "Next floor; first door on tho left," the woman answered. "Mademoiselle Is not often In at this hour, though." Duncombe thanked here and climbed another flight of stairs. He had to striko a match to look for a bell or knocker and then found neither. Ho knocked on the door with his knuckles. There was no reply. Ho was on tho point of departure when ho noticed that tho door was ajar. After a moment's hesitation he pushed it open. Ho found himself in a narrow pas sage, with dresses nnd other articles of apparel banging from a row of pegs iu the wall. Tho place was In com plete darkness. He struck another match. At tho end of the passage was hu Inner door, also ajar. Ho rapped upon it and finally pushed it open. Just then his match went out. am very sorry, monsieur, but tontght every place is taken," Once she waved the men nnd girls who stood talking to her on one side, and Duucombo fancied that it wus becauso ' she desired a better view of him. Suddenly he was startled by a volco close at hand. He looked up. The wo man at the desk was speaking to him. , "Monsieur would bo well advised,',' eho said, "If lie departed." Duucombo looked at her In amnzo- ment. She was writing rapidly In her book, and her eyes were fixed upon her work. If he hud not actually heard her It would liavo been hard to believe that folio had spoken, I "But why, madame?" ho asked. "Why should I go? I am In no ono's j wny. I can pay for what I have." J fs She dipped her pen in the Ink, ' "I know nothing of monsieur or of UXa . CHAPTER X. DUNCOMBE had tho nerves nnd temperament of tho young Englishman of his class, whose life Is mostly spent out of doors and who has been tin athlete all his days. But nevertheless at that mo ment he was afraid. Something In tho stillness of the room oppressed him. Ho could see nothing, hearing nothing, except the clock ticking upon the man telpiece. And yet ho was nfraid. 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