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"I cannot remain long as I have an engagement with Hellar, but perhaps Armstadt will remain until you return." "Then I shall have him all to myself," declared Marguerite with quiet seriousness.
"Yes," I said, "since you have looked up Holknecht and he has explained to you the reason for the disappearance of the man you knew, I thought best to see you and have an understanding." "But that dumb fellow explained nothing," declared Katrina, "except that he told me that Armstadt went to the mines and you came back and took his place.
I speak their language. I know their people. I never saw the inside of Berlin until I was brought here from the potash mines of Stassfurt, wearing the clothes and carrying the identification papers of one Karl Armstadt who was killed by gas bombs which I myself had ordered dropped into those mines."
Go at once and verify the same and report of condition of gas generators and make analyses of output of the same. Evidently I was Karl Armstadt and very happily a chemical engineer by profession. My task of impersonation so far looked feasible I could talk chemical engineering. The next paper I proceeded to examine was an identification folder done up in oiled fabric.
"It was fitting, Herr von Armstadt, for me to order your confinement for your demand was audacious; not that what you asked was a matter of importance, but you should have made the request in writing and privately and not before the Chemical Staff. For that breach of etiquette I had to humiliate you that Royal dignity might be preserved.
We shall do our best to atone for what you have suffered. And to you, Herr von Armstadt, I extend my thanks for bringing us so beautiful a woman. It is my hope that you will win her as a wife, for she will grace well the fortune that your great genius brings to us. But because you have loved her under unfortunate circumstances I must forbid your marriage for a period of two years.
He wasn't even sure you were not the other Karl Armstadt until I convinced him, and then he claimed that he had known it all the time; and yet he had never told it. Some men are as dull as books." "On the contrary, Holknecht is very sensible," I replied. "It is a grave affair of state and one that it is best not to probe into."
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