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Updated: May 10, 2025
'Pray don't let me detain you, Mr Racksole, said the Prince, and therefore the proprietor of the Grand Babylon departed after the servant, with a queer, curt little bow to Prince Aribert. 'Mayn't I come inside? said the Prince to Nella immediately the millionaire had gone. 'Impossible, Prince, Nella laughed. 'The rule against visitors entering this bureau is frightfully strict.
'How do you know the rule is so strict if you only came into possession last night? 'I know because I made the rule myself this morning, your Highness. 'But seriously, Miss Racksole, I want to talk to you. 'Do you want to talk to me as Prince Aribert or as the friend the acquaintance whom I knew in Paris' last year? 'As the friend, dear lady, if I may use the term.
As to that Aribert began. 'If you don't mind, we'll discuss that later, Prince, Racksole interrupted him. They were in the proprietor's private room. 'I want to tell you all about last night, Racksole resumed, 'about my capture of Jules, and my examination of him this morning. And he launched into a full account of the whole thing, down to the least details.
Any allusion, however direct, to the days at Ostend, was ignored by him with more or less ingenuity, and Prince Aribert was really no nearer a full solution of the mystery of Jules' plot than he had been on the night when he and Racksole visited the gaming tables at Ostend.
Princess Aribert of Anhalt and her husband, too, are very conspicuous figures in the imperial circle, the princess being a special favorite of the kaiser.
'I beg one moment first, said Aribert, laying a hand gently on his nephew's arm, and giving old Hans a glance which had the effect of precipitating that admirably trained servant through the doorway. 'What is it? asked Prince Eugen crossly. 'Why this sudden seriousness? Don't forget that I have an appointment with Mr Sampson Levi, and must not keep him waiting.
He noticed that a third cover had been laid at the table. 'That is for a friend of mine who came in about five minutes ago. Of course I told him he must share our steak. He'll be here in a moment. 'May I respectfully inquire his name? 'Dimmock Christian name Reginald; profession, English companion to Prince Aribert of Posen. I met him when I was in St Petersburg with cousin Hetty last fall.
And, snatching the lantern from Racksole, he rushed into the dark room where they had heard the conversation of Miss Spencer and the lady in the red hat. For a moment Racksole did not stir from the threshold of the window. 'Come, Prince Aribert repeated, and there was an imperious command in his utterance. 'What are you afraid of?
I may tell you, what no one knows at present, outside this hotel, that his Royal Highness the Grand Duke, with a small suite, will be here to-morrow. 'In London? asked Nella. 'Yes. 'In this hotel? 'Yes. 'Oh! How lovely! 'That is why your humble servant is here to-night a sort of advance guard. 'But I understood, Racksole said, 'that you were er attached to Prince Aribert, the uncle.
You ought to have guessed that it isn't etiquette to inquire about the size of a German Dukedom. 'I am sure, said Dimmock, with a polite smile, 'that the Grand Duke is as much amused as anyone at the size of his territory. I forget the exact acreage, but I remember that once Prince Aribert and myself walked across it and back again in a single day.
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