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He ought to have wind of what is being plotted, and as for me, I don't know where Annouchka has gone. I have more to learn from him than he has from me. Besides, as Athanase Georgevitch said, one may regret not accepting the Head of the Okrana's pleasant invitation." From six o'clock to seven he still waited vainly for Natacha's response. At seven o'clock, he decided to dress for the dinner.
It was the word, the signature of Annouchka that she demanded before giving her own. The evening Michael Nikolaievitch died, he was charged to bring her that signature. I know it, myself, because, pretending drunkenness, I was able to overhear enough of a conversation between Annouchka and a man whose name I must conceal.
"We would do better to drive away such terrible memories," ventured Gounsovski, lifting his eyelashes behind his glasses, but he bent his head as Annouchka sent him a blazing glance. "Speak, Galitch." The Prince did as she said.
"Eh," replied Gounsovski, "I let you know that all you had to do was to take a fine apartment in the city." Annouchka spat on the ground like a teamster, and Gounsovski from yellow turned green. "But why did you hide yourself that way, Annouchka?" asked Onoto as she caressed the beautiful tresses of the singer. "You know I had been condemned to death, and then pardoned.
He required from Annouchka solely that she have supper with him on the evening of her debut." "And Annouchka consented?" "That was the condition, it seems. For that matter, they say that Annouchka and Gounsovski don't get along so badly together. Gounsovski has done Annouchka many a good turn. They say he is in love with her."
The three others, frightened, at once protested their discretion. He added, roughly this time, "Service of the Tsar," and the three stammered, "God save the Tsar!" After which he saw them to the door. When the door had closed after them, he said, "My little Annouchka, you mustn't reckon without me."
"Athanase Georgevitch is right; hang onto your mouth, Thaddeus," counseled Ivan Petrovitch. The talkers all grew silent, for the curtain was rising. In the audience there were mysterious allusions being made to this second number of Annouchka, but no one seemed able to say what it was to be, and it was, as a matter of fact, very simple.
"I see that I am in a country of acquaintances," he said, without appearing disturbed. He addressed a lively compliment to Annouchka, who threw him a kiss. "Rouletabille!" cried la belle Onoto. "Why, then, he is the little fellow who solved the mystery of the Yellow Room." "Himself." "What are you doing here?" "He came to save the life of General Trebassof," sniggered Gounsovski.
And suddenly from the ineffable peace of his last evening, while the balalaika mourned and the man overhead tested the solidity of his ring-bolt, a voice outside, the grave, deep voice of Annouchka, sang for the little Frenchman: "For whom weave we now the crown Of lilac, rose and thyme? When my hand falls lingering down Who then will bring your crown Of lilac, rose and thyme?
"Michael Nikolaievitch knew Annouchka. There was certainly the point of departure for the negotiations which that felon-officer, traitor to all sides, worked at will toward the realization of his own infamous project. I do not think that Michael ever confided to Natacha that he was, from the very first, the instrument of the revolutionaries.
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