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You smile," he exclaimed, "but what am I to think? Neither I nor my people had any hand in this deed. How about yours?" Bellamy shook his head. "We do not fight that way," he replied. "I had bought Von Behrling. He was of no further interest to me. I did not care whether he lived or died." "There is something very strange about this," the Baron said.
It was not his affair, he told me, and interposition from him was hopeless, but he knew that you and I were friends." "You must stop!" Von Behrling declared. "You must stop! I must not listen to this!" "He offered me twenty thousand pounds," she went on, "for the packet in your pocket. Think of that, my friend. It would be a start in life, would it not? I am an extravagant woman.
Von Behrling has the packet. The others form a sort of cordon around him." "But why," she asked, "does he go on to London? Why not return to Vienna?" "For one thing," Bellamy replied, with a grim smile, "they are afraid of me. Then you must remember that this affair of Dorward will be talked about. They do not want to seem in any way implicated.
Bellamy purposely held the door open until he saw the lift descend. Then he closed it firmly and came back into the room. Louise and he looked at each other, their faces full of anxious questioning. "What does it mean?" Louise cried. "What can it mean?" "Heaven alone knows!" Bellamy answered. "There is not a gleam of daylight. My people are absolutely innocent of any attempt upon Von Behrling.
That twenty thousand pounds, Laverick, is Secret Service money, paid by me to Von Behrling only half-an-hour before he was murdered, in a small restaurant there, for what I supposed to be the document. He deceived me by making up a false packet. The real one he kept. He deserved to die, and I am glad he is dead." Laverick's face was suddenly hopeful. "Then you can take these notes!" he exclaimed.
This plain talking is pleasant enough when the time comes that one may indulge in it. That time, I think, is now. Rudolph Von Behrling, against my advice, but because he was the Chancellor's nephew, was associated with me in a certain enterprise, the nature of which is no secret to you, Mademoiselle, or to Mr. Bellamy here.
He was in disgrace with the Chancellor a short while ago, and I know that he was hurt at not being allowed to attend the conference. The others will watch him closely, but they cannot overhear everything that passes between you two. Von Behrling is a poor man. You will know how to make him wish he were rich." Very slowly her eyebrows rose up. She looked at him doubtfully.
"When I get there, let me have a line waiting to tell me where I can see you. While I am on the train you will find Von Behrling almost inaccessible. Directly I have gone it will be different. Play with him carefully. He should not be difficult. To tell you the truth, I am rather surprised that he has been trusted upon a mission like this.
But no one of them has had a kind word from me save where there has been something to be gained. Even Von Behrling I have fooled with promises. No Austrian shall ever touch my lips I have sworn it!" Bellamy nodded. "Yes," he assented, "they call you cold here in the capital! Even in the Palace " She held out her hand. "It is finished!" she declared. "I sing no more.
The kindness of the woman whom he adored was sufficient in itself to have transported him into a seventh heaven. On the other hand, he had trouble with his friends. Streuss drew him on one side at Ostend, and talked to him plainly. "Von Behrling," he said, "I speak to you on behalf of Kahn and myself. Wine and women and pleasure are good things.
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