The Deaves Affair Part 60
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"The deuce you did!"
"What about Charley Straiker, Evan?"
"He's coming, too. Dear old Charl! We have had a heart-to-heart talk.
Everything is fixed up between us. You have never told me how you got hold of him that day. I didn't like to ask him. Too sore a subject."
"There's nothing much to tell. I was in the library reading-room that morning, not to get the money but just to watch out for danger. Paul Roman got the books out. I saw Charley come in and sit down beside him, and I knew what was up. I immediately went and sat down on the other side of Charley. He was glad to see me. I was quite frank with him. I introduced Paul Roman to him. I told him my story. It won his heart, that's all."
"It wasn't the story, but your eyes, confound them!"
"Oh, you never will believe that anybody can be influenced by disinterested motives!"
"How did you find out that other time that the bills were marked?"
"Tenterden has a brother in a bank. He told us about the warning sent out by the Mid-City Bank."
"Corinna, how did you ever come to chum up with a woman like Maud Deaves?"
"I didn't chum up with her. I never laid eyes on the woman. It came about gradually. I found out early in the game that when we sent letters to her it had the effect of exerting a tremendous pressure on her husband to pay. Later, through the servants, whom Paul Roman had bribed for me, I found out that she was in money difficulties. After that every time we got the money I sent her part, and she worked for us like one of ourselves. We never failed to get the money one way or another, as you know."
"I know," said Evan ruefully.
"But don't let us talk of those times any more. It's a sore subject with me, too."
"One more question, and I'll drop it forever. Confess that you came and took a room at 45A Was.h.i.+ngton Square for the especial purpose of seducing me."
"Evan! What a word to use!"
"I used it merely in a figurative sense, my child. Confess!"
"Well, of course when Paul Roman reported all that had happened that day, and where you lived, and later when I learned through the Deaves'
servants that you had been engaged to go around with the old man, my first thought was to win you to our side. Paul reported that you were a gentleman, and seemed like a good sort of fellow."
"Oh, he did, did he?"
"In such a position, of course, if you were against us you could ruin everything; while if you were on our side you would be invaluable. So I went to that house and took a room, hoping to become acquainted with you."
"You didn't stay long."
She looked at him through her lashes. "No, I fell in love with you, confound you! It spoiled everything!"
"Corinna!" he cried delightedly. "I am beginning to think I shall yet succeed in grafting a sense of humour on you!"
THE END
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