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"He was very kind to me there." "That wasn't a very difficult task, was it, Major Dalberg?" Dehra asked, fixing her blue eyes on my face. "Please, Your Highness please," exclaimed Lady Helen, holding up her hands. "I think," I replied, "that Lady Helen is, in herself, the best answer to Your Highness's question." Just then there came a step in the corridor and the King stood in the doorway.
He waved aside my banter. "I give you a toast," he went on, pouring a measure for each of us. "The Princess Dehra and another like her." "And may you find that other," I cried. Then we drained our glasses and flung them into the grate. I was tremendously astonished at this revelation of Courtney's feelings feelings which I had never even suspected. And, I fear, I had the bad taste to stare at him.
"I shall dance no more to-night," she said. Then we reached the door and found the small room crowded with officials and dignitaries. The Princess halted sharply. "But you may take me for a turn on the terrace," she concluded. As we crossed the wide floor the crowd fell back, but Dehra gave no greeting to anyone, though she must have known all eyes were upon us.
"You are a perfect treasure, Bernheim," I said. "Come, we will start at once. Is your horse good for a fast ride back?" "Entirely, sir." "Then you can give me the story on the way," I said. "Meanwhile, get some refreshment." I went back to the table and it was amusing how suddenly the conversation ceased and everyone looked at me. I smiled reassuringly at Dehra, for there was concern in her eyes.
When I rounded the corner, the Princess and Lady Helen were turning into the drive that led from the road to the Palace; and, once again, Dehra waved me onward. They awaited me at the gate; and, with the guard standing at attention, we rode into the grounds. I noticed that the Princess acknowledged the salute with her crop as though it were a sword. I had returned it with my hand.
A German outpost at the bridge held the Dehra Dun Brigade, which was supported by the Jullundur Brigade of the Lahore Division, in its attack farther to the south on the line of the River Des Layes. The First Brigade of the First Corps was rushed forward by Sir Douglas Haig; but it was dark before these troops arrived.
"I fear I shall " Dehra raised her crop. "There is only one shaft, sir; you shall come with us." So I went; even while my better judgment bade me turn bridle and gallop away. A man is very helpless with one pretty woman; he is utterly at the mercy of two. Presently we passed the place where the Princess and I had met six years before. I glanced across and found her eyes on me.
Please send by cable, reply prepaid, twenty words ... name of friend who received last news, date of letter. Send also name of the Reverend Father at Dehra. Inform him that I shall write him immediately. Paindavoine." "Translate that into English and make it shorter rather than longer, if possible. At one franc sixty centimes a word, we must not waste words. Write very clearly."
He was a traveller in the East, he said they never talked about "globe-trotters" in those days, when the P. & O. fleet was young and small and had come from Dehra Dun to hunt for plants and butterflies among the Simla hills. No one at Simla, therefore, knew anything about him.
Dehra looked at me steadily. I understood. "Yes," said I, "she has made a try at me; once in New York; again, and only recently, in Pittsburgh. I escaped both times, thank God." "She may make another try at you here." I laughed. "She failed twice in America; she can scarcely win in Dornlitz when you are beside me." "But I'm not always beside you," she objected. "Not physically," I said.
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