CHAPTER XVI 

AND THE PUPPETS DANCED 

And so he went to meet Louisa and Colonel Harris at the Danish Legation, and found them a taxicab and generally saw to their comparative comfort. 

There was no restraint between the three of them. It was as natural to them all to avoid speaking of important matters on the door step of a neighbour's house, as it was to eat or drink or breathe. So Luke asked if the dinner had been enjoyable and the reception crowded, and Colonel Harris comfortably complained of both. He hated foreign cooking, and society crushes, and had endured both to-night. No doubt the terrible events of this night, as yet mere shadows--hardly admitted to be real--were weighing on the kind old man's usual hearty spirits. 

But so versed were they all in the art of make believe that each one individually was able to register in the innermost depths of an anxious heart the firm conviction that the other "had not heard." 

Luke was convinced that the gruesome and sordid news could not have penetrated within the gorgeous mansion where Lou in an exquisite gown had sung modern songs in her pure contralto voice. He felt sure that neither Lou nor Colonel Harris had heard that Philip de Mountford had been murdered in a taxicab and that police officers had thought fit to speak to him--Luke--in tones of contemptuous familiarity. Nay more! now that he himself sat thus opposite good-natured, prosy, sensible Colonel Harris, he began to think that he must have been dreaming, that the whole thing could not have occurred, but that he had imagined it all whilst leaning against the garden-railings trying to strain his ears so that they should hear the soft faint echo of that pure contralto voice.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who would be found at the Danish legation?
2. What was the name of the person being met up with at the Danish Legation?
3. 
Q2:
1. What did Luke think was a sure thing?
2. What did Luke feel certain of?
3. 
Q3:
1. What complaint did Colonel Harris lodge?
2. What wasn't Colonel Harris happy with?
3. 
Q4:
1. What kind of cooking didn't Colonel Harris like?
2. What sort of cuisine was displeasing to Colonel Harris?
3. 
Q5:
1. What did Colonel Harris learn regarding Phillip de Mountford?
2. What information came to Colonel Harris on the subject of Phillip de Mountford?
3. 
Q6:
1. In what way did the police address Luke?
2. What sort of tone did the cops take with Luke?
3. 
Q7:
1. In what manner did Luke go to the Danish Legation?
2. How did Luke act en route to the Danish Legation?
3. 
Q8:
1. What weighed on Colonel Harris, that took him out of his usually nice mood?
2. What was Colonel Harris bogged down by that made him uncharacteristically sad?
3. 
Q9:
1. When did the terrible events occur?
2. At what point did awful things happen?
3. 
Q10:
1. Did it come to Luke that maybe he had been dreaming and the events could not have happened?
2. Did Luke ponder whether he had dreamt up all the awful things that had happened?
3. 
