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Certain features of the present position appealed to Lord Aldean. It was his first experience of the kind, and perhaps what gratified him most was the consciousness of the power which so suddenly had become vested in him. The knowledge that in this human rubber he held all the trumps in no wise lessened his enjoyment of the situation. There still remained to play them, and he felt pretty confident that in the end he and his partner would not have many tricks to deplore. For the moment his antagonists were absolutely in his hands -- the man frightened to death of his skin; the woman believing that for the time being, at least, discretion was surely the better part of valour.
He hurried them off to the Hotel Magenta, there to be dealt with by the woman they had deceived and plundered.