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I do myself the justice to remember that from the first I realized that we played a losing game. Mademoiselle," he added, "from the days of Cleopatra ay, and throughout those shadowy days which lie beyond the diplomats of the world have been powerless when matched against your sex. Rudolph Von Behrling was an honest fellow enough until he looked into your eyes.
"If they have not got the pocket-book," Bellamy muttered, "it must have gone with Von Behrling to the Mortuary. If so, there is a chance. Louise, say nothing; leave this to me." "As you will," she assented. "I have no wish to interfere. I only hope that he does not ask me any questions." They came once more into the middle of the room, and the Baron turned to meet them.
Stay with me and see that I am not robbed, if you fear that I am not able to take care of myself, but do not ask me to behave like an idiot." Von Behrling stepped away quickly. The siren was already blowing from the steamer. The night was dark but fine, and the crossing smooth.
There was an engaged carriage at Dover, into which she was duly escorted by a representative of the Opera Syndicate, who had been sent down from London to receive her. Von Behrling seemed to be missing. She had seen nothing of him since he had descended to summon her maids.
"The joke of it is that I, too, am being watched whereever I go. That fellow Streuss has spies everywhere. That is one reason why I believe that Von Behrling was serious. "Oh, he was serious!" Louise repeated. "You are sure?" Bellamy asked. "You have never had even any doubt about him?" "Never," she answered firmly. "David, I had not meant to tell you this.
"The money, after all, in comparison with what it was destined to purchase, is nothing. We might even count it a fair risk if it was lost." "It shall not be lost," Bellamy promised. "If Von Behrling has played the traitor to us, then he will go back to his country. In that case, I will have the money from him without a doubt.
"It is a slender chance, David," she remarked. "Von Behrling is a little wild, I know, and he pretends to be very much in love with me, but I do not think that he would sell his country. Then, too, see how he will be watched. I do not suppose that they will leave us alone for a moment." Bellamy took her hands in his, gripping them with almost unnatural force.
Besides, the quarter where the murder occurred is entirely unfrequented by the criminal classes. It is simply a region of great banks and the offices of merchant princes. "Is it possible that there is some one else who knew about that document?" Louise asked, "some one else who has been watching Von Behrling?" Bellamy shook his head. "How can that be?
He frowned slightly at her last words, for he loved her. "Von Behrling was not even allowed to cross the threshold," he said sharply. She moved her head and looked up at him. She was leaning a little forward now, her chin resting upon her hands. Something about the lines of her long, supple body suggested to him the savage animal crouching for a spring.
Only an hour ago I met Von Behrling in a little restaurant in the city, and gave him twenty thousand pounds for that envelope." "You paid him the money," the Minister remarked slowly, "without opening the envelope." Bellamy admitted it. "In such transactions as these," he declared, "great risks are almost inevitable. I took what must seem to you now to be an absurd risk.
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