No blowzy barmaids for him to-day: an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper meed of sympathy. ‘What was Leonardo to you?’ Melusine was instantly on the defensive. A bobbing lantern, crossing the bridge—for she had not drawn the curtain—attracted her attention. That suggested delicacy; and yet her young body was strong and vital. He was safe, out of the beaten track, at last really comparable to the needle in the haystack. The room was papered with green, large-patterned paper that was at worst a trifle dingy, and the arm-chair and the seats of the other chairs were covered with the unusual brightness of a large-patterned chintz, which also supplied the window-curtain. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon the threshold. Parbleu, but must she do this all through the house? Evidently she must, for not only could she not properly see the paintings and portraits that hung on the walls, but she was in imminent danger of bumping into the sheet-shrouded furniture. ’ ‘No, I wouldn’t have believed you. Girls who had envied her former position as John’s amour passed no opportunity to utter cryptic remarks as she sat in Study Hall, walked down hallways, or rinsed her hands in the bathroom. The natural gaiety of the place seemed to have affected them both. “I believe that I can give you great news. But he had now lost the precise spot; and thinking he had examined the drain, turned his attention to another quarter. Innumerable little puzzles were instantly solved. With his gimblet he contrived to bore a number of holes so close together that at last one end of the bar, being completely pierced through, yielded; and pursuing the same with the other extremity, it fell out altogether.
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