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The two officers accompanying the colonel drew their swords. The baroness uttered a cry of terror, and flung herself on Vavel's breast. "I presume you will allow me to inquire, first, what relation this lady bears to you?" Colonel Barthelmy asked the question in measured tones; and without an instant's hesitation came Count Vavel's reply: "The lady is my betrothed wife."
At the approach of the deliverer the "robbers" took to their heels, and the brave knight unbound the fettered and charming lady he had delivered from the ruffians. As Themire had prepared herself for the meeting, you may guess the result: the hermit was captured!" Oh, how every drop of blood in Vavel's veins boiled and seethed! His face was crimsoned with shame and rage.
The "Death-head troop," as Vavel's Volons were designated, marched in the rear of the brigade; consequently they could drop out from it any time without attracting special notice. To-day the brigade marched toward Palota, and the Volons turned into the road which led to Zircz.
However, the evening before the regiment took its departure the colonel said to me: 'I have kept my word to you, baroness; but to-morrow I cease to be your guest. I shall take steps then to learn if the mysterious lady at the Nameless Castle be Ange Barthelmy or some one else." At these words a deep flush crimsoned Count Vavel's face.
The situation had changed so rapidly as when a sudden flash of lightning illumines the darkness of night; and like the electric flash a light sped into Vavel's heart and illumined it with a delicious, a heavenly warmth that made it throb madly. But only for an instant. Then he realized that this woman who had dared everything for his sake had been insulted by the glance of scorn and derision.
The woman riding the beast slipped quickly to the ground, emptied the provisions from the hampers, then, lifting the object which had been concealed in the bottom of one of them, came around to Vavel's side, saying: "It is I. I have come to seek you." "Who is it?" he demanded sternly, recognizing the voice; "Katharina or Themire?"
So soon as this war broke out, Vavel threw off his hermit's mask, and is now leading a company of troopers which he equipped at his own expense against us. "From Jocrisse's letters I learn that Vavel's treasures are now in Themire's hands. That which our fair emissary was commissioned to find is in her possession. Now, however, the question is, What will she do with it?
He bent his head and pressed his lips to one of the lady's hands, which were clasped about Count Vavel's arm. Then, with his helmet still in his hand, he turned to Count Vavel, and added: "Are you satisfied?" "Yes," was the curt reply. "Then let us shake hands without malice. Accept my sincerest congratulations. To you, baroness, I give thanks for the lesson you have taught me this morning."
Could it be possible that she had been caught in her own trap that she had found this Vavel's eyes more alluring than the fortune we promised her, and that instead of betraying him to us she would do the very opposite betray us to him? It may be that she has woven a more delicate web than I can detect with which to entangle her romantic victim the more securely.
The rising of the German patriots against Napoleon had ended in their defeat, and not a trace was left of the uprising among the French people themselves. It was the third day after the battle of Aspern when Master Matyas entered Count Vavel's tent.
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