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You are not dreaming all this, and I am really the Marchioness Caldariva, better known as 'the beautiful Cyrene. I have intruded on you this evening, but to-morrow you will admit me of your own free will, and the day after you shall be my guest. We will signal to each other through the tube when we are alone and disengaged, and we shall soon be great friends."
The coals which still glowed on the hearth presently died with a hissing noise, and only the soft light of the shaded lamp diffused itself through the room. Out of the mysterious depths of the fireplace stepped the white-clad form of a woman. "I am the Marchioness Caldariva," announced the unbidden guest.
Prince Cagliari and the Marchioness Caldariva also remained quietly in the city, and even went so far as to forego their wonted sojourn at the seashore when summer came. They seemed to have acquired a sudden extraordinary fondness for the Austrian capital. But one day the expected happened to Benjamin Vajdar. He was called to the police bureau.
But before the two begin their clandestine work, let us say a few words concerning the relations between them. Months before, at a court ball to which Prince Cagliari's influence had procured the Marchioness Caldariva a much-coveted invitation, Benjamin Vajdar, who then occupied a subordinate government position, was also present.
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