Dundas might have kept them. I wrote and
asked if he had. He answered that he had every one, and valued them
immensely, but if I wished, he would either burn all, or bring them to
me, whichever I chose. I chose to have him bring them, and I told him
that I'd meet him at the Elysee Palace Hotel on a certain evening, to
receive the letters from him."
"He came, as I said, under another name. Why was that, Mademoiselle,
since there was nothing for him to be ashamed of?"
"He also is in love, and just engaged to be married to an American girl
who lives with relations in London, in a very high position. He didn't
want the girl to know he was coming to Paris, because, it seems, there
had been a little talk about him and me, which she had heard. And she
didn't like it."
"I see. This gentleman started for Paris, I have learned, the first
thing in the morning, the day after a ball at a house where he met the
British Secretary for Foreign Affairs."
"Perhaps. For I have enquired and found out that the girl--a Miss
Forrest, is distantly connected with the British Foreign Secretary. She
lives with her aunt, Lady Mountstuart, whose sister is married to that
gentleman.
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