‘If you love me so much,’ she said at length, ‘would you like to prove it?’
For a moment the warmth seemed to vanish from the Rajah’s eyes, then as he looked down into her eyes and at the fullness of her red lips, he seemed to surrender himself to a sudden impulse.
‘I will prove my love any way you wish,’ he answered.
‘It is something so difficult I don’t believe you could do it,’ Stella said, remembering Chrissie’s instructions to put him on his mettle.
‘There are few things I cannot do,’ the Rajah boasted vainly, and it seemed to Stella a little foolishly.
‘I am wondering if you could buy me the pearls belonging to that girl – the one they call “the Ghost.”
Even as Stella said the words she wondered at her own audacity. It was one thing to accept presents from people anxious to giv
