[The Powers and Maxine by Charles Norris Williamson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Powers and Maxine CHAPTER II 12/24
You will there give a fictitious name (let us say, George Sandford) and you will take a suite, with a private sitting-room.
That done, you will say that you are expecting a lady to call upon you, and will see no one else.
You will wait till Mademoiselle de Renzie appears, which will certainly be as soon as she can possibly manage; and when you and she are alone together, sure that you're not being spied upon, you will put into her hands a small packet which I shall give you before we part to-night." "It sounds simple enough," said Ivor, "if that's all." "It is all.
Yet it may be anything but simple." "Would you prefer to have me call at her house, and save her coming to a hotel? I'd willingly do so if--" "No.
As I told you, should it be known that you and she meet, those who are watching her at present ought not to suspect the real motive of the meeting.
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