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Updated: May 14, 2025
Had Colonel Barthelmy's words been merely an idle threat? Henry knew that he was not to drive beyond this point; he mechanically turned the horses' heads in the homeward direction, as he had done every day for years. On the return drive the carriage always stopped at the edge of the forest, where a shaded path led through the dense shrubbery to a cleared space some distance from the highway.
He had now lost all control of himself. He snatched a pistol from his pocket, directed the muzzle toward Colonel Barthelmy's sneering face, and said in a voice that quivered with savage fury: "I demand that you beg this lady's pardon." "You do?" coolly returned the colonel, still smiling, and gazing calmly into the muzzle of the pistol. "Yes or I will blow out your brains!"
Then, with a sudden movement, she seized his hand and whispered: "And you are the unknown who abducted Colonel Barthelmy's wife." "I?" in boundless amazement ejaculated the count. Then he laughed heartily. "Yes, you; and you are living here in seclusion with the lovely woman whose face no one is permitted to see."
Ludwig ceased laughing, and replied very seriously; "Gracious baroness, were I the person you believe me to be, I should have been glad to meet the man who compelled me to live here in seclusion. A skilful sword-thrust or a well-aimed bullet would have released me from this prison." "And yet, everybody believes Count Vavel to be Ange Barthelmy's lover," responded the baroness.
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