“No.”
“Well.”
“Oh! the rest is nothing. I mean nothing new.”
“Let me hear the old story, then, Mr. Moultrie.”
“The rest is merely that the Princess found that the fiery eyes burned her and the eloquent tongue stung her, and truly that is the whole. Isn’t it a pretty story? The moral is that cages are sometimes traps.”
Sligo Moultrie becomes suddenly extremely attentive to Miss Magot. Grace Plumer ponders many things, and among others wonders how, when, where, Sligo Moultrie learned to talk in parables. She does not ask herself why he does so. She is a woman, and she knows why.
CHAPTER L. — WINE AND TRUTH.
The conversation takes a fresh turn. Corlaer Van Boozenberg is talking of the great heiress, Miss Wayne. He has drunk wine enough to be bold, and calls out aloud from his end of the table,