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Monsieur Beaucaire
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By BOOTH TARKINGTON,
Author of “The Gentleman From Indiana’’ and ‘‘ The
Conquest of Canaan.’
Copyright, 1900, by McClure, Phillips & Co.
CHAPTER L
proved good. As the unshod half dozen figures that
had been standing noisclessly in the entryway stole
softly into the shadows of the chamber he leaned
across the table and smilingly plucked a card out
of the big Englishman’s sleeve.
“Merci, M. le Due!” he laughed, rising and stepping back from |
the table.
The Englishman cried out, “It means the dirty work of silencing |
you with my bare hands!” and came at him.
“Do not move,” said M. Beaucaire, so sharply that the other |
paused. “Observe behind you.”
The Englishman turned and saw what trap he had blundered into, |
then stood transfixed, impotent, alternately scarlet with rage and
HE young Frenchman did very well what he had |
planned to do. His guess that the duke would cheat '
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white with the vital shame of discovery. M. Beaucaire remarked, in-
dicating the silent figures by a polite wave of the hand, “Is it not a
compliment to monsieur that I procure six large men to subdue him?
They are quite devote’ to me, and monsieur is alone. Could it be that
he did not wish even his lackeys to know he play with the yo'ng
Frenchman who Meestaire Nash does not like in the pomp room?
Monsieur is unfortunate to have come on foot and alone to my apart-
ment.”
The duke’s mouth foamed over with chaotic revilement. His cap-
tor smiled brightly and made a slight gesture, as one who brushes
aside a boisterous insect. With the same motion he quelled to stony
quiet a resentful impetus of his servants toward the Englishman.
“It’s murder, is it, you carrion!” nizlicd the duke.
M. Beaucaire lifted his shoulders in a mock shiver. “What words!
No, n6, no! No killing! A such word to a such host! No, no; not
mur-r-der; only disgrace!” Ie laughed a clear, light laugh with a
rici- = infleeticn, seeming to launeh himself vpon en adventurous quest
for sympathy.
“You little devilish seullion!” spat out the duke.
“Tut, tut! But I forget. Monsieur has pursue’ his studies of de-
portment amongs’ his fellow countrymen.”
“Do you dream a soul in Bath will take your word that I—
that I"—
‘hat M. le Due de Winterset had a card up Lis sleeve ¢”
“You pitiful stroller, you stable boy, born in a stable” —
“Ts it not an honor to be born where monsieur must have been
bred ?”
“You scurvy footboy, you greasy barber, you cutthroat groom” —
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“MERCI, M. LE DUC!" HE LAUGHED.
“Overwhelm’!” The young man bowed with imperturbable ela-
tion. “M. le Duc appoint’ me to all the office’ of his househol’.”
“You mustachioed fool, there are not five people of quality in
Bath will speak to you”— ~
“No, monsieur, not on the parade; but how many come to play
with me here? Because I will play always, night or day, for what
lone avill, for any long and al-ways fair, monsieur.”
“You outrageous varlet! Every one knows you came to England
as the French ambassador’s barber. What man of fashion will listen
‘to you! Who will believe you”
“All people, monsiéur. Do you think I have not calculate’, that I
ishall make a failure of my little enterprise
“Bah!”
“Will monsieur not reseat himself?” M. Beaucaire made a low
bow. “So. We must not be too tire’ for Lady Malbourne’s rout.
‘Ha, ha! And you, Jean, Victor, and you others, retire. Go in the
hallway. Attend at the entrance, Francois. So. Now we shall talk.
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Monsieur, I wish you to think very cool. Then listen; I will be
| briefly. It is that I am well known to be all, entire’ hones’. Gam-
| blist? Ah, yes, true and mos’ profitable, but fair—al-ways fair. Every
| one say that. Isit notso? Think of it. And—is there never a w'isper
| come to M. le Due that not all people belief him to play al-ways
| hones’? Ha, ha! Did it almos’ be said to him las’ year, after when
| he play’ with Milor’ Tappin’ford at the chocolate house”—
“You dirty scandal monger!” the duke burst out. “I'll"—
“Monsieur, monsicur!” said the Frenchman. “It is a poor valor
to insult a ple: captor. Can he retort upon his own vietim? But
| it is for you to think of what I say. True, I am not reco’nize on the |
parade; that my%frien’s who come here do not present me to their
| ladies; that Meestaire Nash has reboff’ me in the pomp room. Stili. |
am I not known for being hones’ and fair in my play, and will I not be
belief’, even I, when I lif’ my voice and charge you aloud with what
is already w’isper’? Think of it! You are a noble, and there will be
' some hangdogs who might not fall away from you. Only such would
| be lef’ to you. Do youn want it tol’? And you can keep out of France,
monsieur? T have lef’ his service, but T have still the ear of M. de
Mirepoix, and he know’ I never lie. Not a gentleman will play you
when von come to Paris.”
The Englishman’s white lip showed a row of scarlet dots upon it.
“How much do you want?” he said.
The room rang with the gay laughter of Beaucaire. “I hol’ your
note’ for seven hunder’ pound’. You can have them, monsieur.
Why does a such great man come to play M. Beaucaire? Because no
“one else willin’ to play M. le Duc—he cannot pay. Ha, ha! So he
come’ to good M. Beaucaire. Money—ha, ha! What I want with
money ¥”
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His grace of Winterset’s features were set awry to a sinister pat-
tern. He sat glaring at his companion in a snarling silence.
“Money? Pouf!” enapped the little gambler. “No, no, no! It
is that JM. le Due, impoverish’, somewhat in a bad odor as he is, yet
command the entree any-where—onless I— Ha, ha! Eh, mon-
sieur 7”
“Ha! You dare think to force me” —
M. Beaueaire twirled the tip of his slender mustache around the
end of his white forefinger. Then he said, “Monsieur and me goin’ to
Lady Malbourne’s ball tonight—M. le Duc and me!”
The Englishman roared, “Curse your impudence!”
“Sit quiet. Oh, yes, that’s all. We goin’ together.”
“N 0 m
“Certain. I make all my little plan’. ’Tis all arrange’” He
paused and then said gravely, “You goin’ present me to Lady Mary
Carlisle.”
The other laughed in utter scorn. “Lady Mary Carlisle, of all
women alive, would be the first to prefer the devil to a man of no
birth, barber.”
“Tis all arrange’; have no fear. Nobody question monsieur’s
guest. You goin’ take me tonight” —
“No i”
“Yes. And after—then I have the entree. Is it much I ask?
This one little favor, and I never w'isper, never breathe that—it is to
say, I am always forever silent of monsieur’s misfortune.”
“You have the entree!” sncered the other. “Go to a lackeys’ rout
and dance with the kitchen maids. If I would, I could not present
you to Bath society. I dhould have cartels from the fathers, brothers
and lovers of every wench and madam in the place, even I. You
would be thrust from Lady Malbourne’s door five minutes after you
entered it.” 1
“No, no, no!”
“Half the gentlemen in Bath have been here to play. They
would know you, wouldn't they, fool? You've had thousands out of
Bantison, Rakell, Guilford and Townbrake. They would have you
lashed by the grooms as your ugly deserts are. You to speak to Lady
Mary Carlisle! ’0Od’s blood! You! Also, dolt, she would know you
if you escaped the others. She stood within a yard of you when Nash
expelled you the pump room.” :
M. Beaucaire flushed slightly.
asked.
| “Do you dream that because Winterset introduces a low fellow he
- will be tolerated—that Bath will receive a barber ¢”
“I have the distinction to call monsieur’s attention,” replied the
young man gayly, “I have renounce’ that profession.”
“Fool I” :
“I am now a man of honor!”
“Faugh!”
“You think I did not see?’ he
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