“My cab with all that luggage would give the whole show away. I always told you some accident would happen. That is why they are permitted to rush in where angels fear to tread—and survive their daring! This supreme protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent, divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream gloriously. You know very well that you took from my easel David Courtlaw’s study of me, and sent it to Cariolus. Did I not say so, Hilary?’ Melusine’s glance shot across to the newcomer, and found a petite blonde standing there, very fashionably attired in a velvet mantel over an apple-green robe, the furred hood framing a face alive with mischief. The women’s meeting was much more charged with emotional force than the Socialists’. She gazed steadily out of the window at that arc of glittering lights. This was the body of a man, apparently lifeless, and stretched upon a mattress, with his head bound up in a linen cloth, through which the blood had oosed. “And you must please not look at me as though I were an executioner,” she declared lightly. And through it all, like a golden thread on a piece of tapestry, weaving in and out of the patterns, the unspoken longing for love. Instead, they lived a Bohemian existence, moving from patron to patron, city to city. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her, he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. I sat within a few feet of him. “We don’t let to ladies,” they said.
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