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CHAPTER XLII.
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About two weeks from the time of the unwelcome visit to her of Prince Khris, the Duchess of Otterbourne, descending1 the terrace steps of her hotel, met, as he ascended2 them, young Woffram of Karstein.
“How dull you look!” she said to him. “What on earth is the matter? Are you going to enliven us with a sensational3 suicide?”
The young man smiled, but with no mirth in his smile.
“Something horrible has happened, though not a suicide,” he answered sadly. “My poor granduncle Khris, the one who came to you the other day, has fallen down in a fit at the rouge4-et-noir table yonder.”
With a gesture toward the east he indicated Monte Carlo, which lay in the distant curves of the coast.
“Is he dead?” she said eagerly.
“No. But he is dying. Hugo von Börn told me. He has just come from there. He saw it.”
“You seem singularly afflicted5!” said Mouse with a little laugh to conceal6 the impression which the news made on herself.
“Well,” said Prince Woffram with embarrassment7, “the death of a good man, you know, isn’t half so shocking as the death of a bad one.”
“Indeed?” said Mouse. “I should have thought just the contrary. But then I don’t see things by the light of the Lutheran religion! Where did Prince Khris live? Who had he with him? Who will look after him?”
“I fear he is past looking after. Where his lodgings8 were I don’t know; they were something very poor, for all his money went at the tables. I think—don’t you think?—I ought to go and see if I can do anything for him?”
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