Logotheti's

Margaret expected that Logotheti's house would somehow correspond with his own outward appearance and would be architecturally over-dressed, inside and out, but in this she was greatly mistaken.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

At every step, at every turn, Margaret realised how much she had been mistaken in thinking that anything in Logotheti's house could be in bad taste.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Logotheti's motor car was built to combine the greatest comfort and the greatest speed which can be made compatible.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

As 'Miss Donne,' a fortnight ago, she would certainly not have thought of going to Logotheti's house, except with

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

He gripped Logotheti's arm with fingers that felt like talons.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

That was precisely what Mrs. Rushmore intended to do, but she protested politely that she had no doubt whatever on the score of the cheque, looking all the time at the big figures written out in Logotheti's remarkably clear handwriting.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Logotheti's lips moved, but she could not hear what he said, and almost as soon as she had spoken he looked down at the grass.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

Péreire, keeping an eye on Logotheti's house from a distance, and had seen the motor car waiting before the door, in charge of the chauffeur.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

In a less civilised country Logotheti's servants might have supposed that he retired to this solitude to practise necromancy or study astrology, or to celebrate the Black Mass.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

He showed his teeth and hissed like a wildcat; his nervous fingers fastened themselves upon Logotheti's arm.

Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881