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MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE
invitation to his home and explained the necessity for a hotel convincingly.
"Then, my dear brother/' begged Constantine, "you will surely be my guest at the club tonight. And you, my sister, will make my wife Olga's heart glad by a visit soon. Until then, farewell."
In the comparative security of the hotel room, Lennox and the woman faced one another. The Colonel's anger, bottled until now, slipped its cork, frothing over into words.
repeated the strange process, while he stared in amazement. Either she was mad — or — she was afraid of something or some one. Both alternatives were distressing. And distressing were the words she spoke, her search ended.
"Hush," she whispered bloodcurdlingly — "hush! There may be spies about here. I am the Nihilist, Helene Marie!"
Lennox had lived up to now the complacent, humdrum life of the
MY WIFE, MONSIEUR, WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN I SAW ON THE TRAIN ! ' '
"And now, madam," he concluded, after an eloquent five minutes, "if you will kindly send for your husband, we will try to think of some way to get out of this tangle into which my kindheartedness — I repeat, my kindhearted simple-mindedness — has led us. ' '
He paused, his scalp pricking unpleasantly. For, instead of listening to him, the eyes of his companion were fixed intently upon the overhanging fringe of the table-cover! With stealthy tread, she darted forward, lifted it, peered beneath ; then, flitting to window enclosures, divan recesses and the doors of both bedrooms, she
normal New Yorker. Every morning in the subway he had read, in the newspaper columns, of murders, militants, modernist art, and other unpleasant topics, but he had never met anything of the sort face to face. And this — this person was, in the eyes of Russia, his wife ! Helene Marie patted a hairpin into place coolly and yawned.
"It really will not help matters for you to get annoyed," she remarked casually. "You'll only get sent to Siberia for it. And it's very unflattering to me, besides, for you to object to my being your official wife for a few days."