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How can you care so much for this impudent wretch's little snub, and yet be so indifferent about refusing Captain Ehrhardt?" "I'm not indifferent about it, my dear. I know that I did right, but I don't know that I could do right under the same circumstances again." In fact there were times when Elmore found almost insupportable the absolute conclusion to which that business had come.
If Lily could console herself, it seemed probable that Ehrhardt too had "got along." As they bowled along in the deliberate German express train through the Black Forest, Colonel Kenton said he had only two things against the region: it was not black, and it was not a forest. He had all his life heard of the Black Forest, and he hoped he knew what it was.
Elmore, having touched his arm to attract his notice, instructed him, by a slow turning of her head, that Captain Ehrhardt was not there. After that he undoubtedly breathed freer, and, in the relaxation from his sense of bravado, he enjoyed the last acts of the opera more than the first.
"You know it would have been ridiculous; besides, she never cared anything for him, she couldn't. You might as well wonder why she didn't take Captain Ehrhardt after you dismissed him." "I dismissed him?" "You wrote to him, didn't you?" "Celia," cried Elmore, "this I cannot bear. Did I take a single step in that business without her request and your full approval? Didn't you both ask me to write?"
<b>BAUCK, JEANNA.</b> Born in Stockholm in 1840. Portrait and landscape painter. In 1863 she went to Dresden, and studied figure work with Professor Ehrhardt; later she moved to Düsseldorf, where she devoted herself to landscape under Flamm, and in 1866 she settled in Munich, where she has since remained, making long visits to Paris, Venice, and parts of Switzerland.
Her husband was a clergyman, and she took particular interest in his parochial work, which her good heart and clear head especially qualified her to share with him. To connect her fate any longer with that of Ehrhardt was now not only absurd, it was improper; yet Elmore sometimes found his fancy forgetfully at work as before.
In this trying field of artillery research the prominent German armament manufacturers, Krupp of Essen and Ehrhardt of Dusseldorf, played a leading part, the result being that before the airship or the aeroplane was received within the military fold, the anti-aircraft gun had been brought into the field of applied science.
Till then, Elmore had been dumbly tormented in his sombre moods with the solution of a problem at which his imagination vainly toiled, the problem of how some day she and Ehrhardt should meet again and retrieve the error of the past for him.
During that long wait which the train used to make in the old Austrian times at Peschiera, while the police authorities viséd the passports of those about to cross the frontier, Elmore continued perpetually alert. He was aware that he should not know Ehrhardt if he met him; but he should know that he was present from the looks of Lily and Mrs. Elmore, and he watched them.
Elmore had it in the hand which she had been keeping in her pocket, and she now suddenly produced it; and Elmore read the name and address of Ernst von Ehrhardt, Captain of the Royal-Imperial Engineers, Peschiera. "She says she knows he wanted hers, but she didn't offer to give it to him; and he didn't ask her where she was going, or anything."
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