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Her eyes were suffused with a mist of tenderness, the passion was gone; her head was thrown back against his breast, when suddenly her hand inadvertently touched against the pocket where Dmitry's pistol lay. She started violently, and before he could divine her purpose she snatched the weapon out, and held it up to the light.
But when the launch came in full view, he perceived no lady was there only Dmitry's black form stood alone by the chairs. Paul's heart sank like lead. He could hardly contain his anxiety until the servant stepped ashore and handed him a letter, and this was its contents: "My beloved one I am not well to-day a foolish chill. Nothing of consequence, only the cold wind of the lake I could not face.
"God keep him safe, Grig," was all Sir Charles could mutter, with a grunt in his throat. The maddest excitement was racing through Paul, as he held the tiller-ropes and made straight for the light. And once he felt in his pocket to assure himself he had not forgotten Dmitry's pistol, which he had cleaned and loaded himself that afternoon.
And to himself he made vows that, come what might, he would ever try to be worthy of her great spirit and teaching. Dmitry's pistol still lay in his pocket; he took it out and examined it all six chambers were loaded. A deadly small thing, with a finely engraved stock made in Paris. There was a date scratched. It was about a year old.
The weird minor notes floating out on the night seemed a wailing echo of the agonised disappointment in Paul's heart more than once a mad impulse to go back convulsed his being before he reached the yacht but it was not till afterwards that he remembered as a strange circumstance the fact that with Dmitry's first words at the nail-studded door Vasili had vanished into darkness.
Her face went like death, and for a second she leant against the parapet as if she were going to faint. "Paul," she gasped with white lips, "this is Dmitry's pistol. I know it well. How did you come by it? tell me, beloved. If he gave it to you, then it means danger, Paul danger " "My darling," said Paul, in his strong young pride "fear nothing, I shall never leave you.
Only the hunting when it came gave him some relief, and then if the run were fast enough, or the jumps prodigiously high, or his horses sufficiently fresh to be difficult, his blood ran again for a brief space. But beyond this life was hell, and often he was tempted to use that little pistol of Dmitry's, and end it, and sleep.
Her villa was but two hundred yards from the sea, only he must follow exactly all Dmitry's instructions, or there might be danger for them both; but at all costs she could not live much longer without seeing her lover. "Thou art more than a lover now, my Paul and I am more than ever THINE." Thus it ended.
And most people were glad, too, that this brute paid the penalty of his crime by his own death his worthless life choked out of him by the Queen's devoted Kalmuck groom. But only Paul and his father, and Mark Grigsby, know the details, which were told in Dmitry's heart-broken letter.
So they had parted without fuss, deep feeling in their hearts. Paul had telegraphed to the address given, for Dmitry, that he would be in Paris, and at what hotel, by the following morning. He chose a large caravanserai as being more suitable to unremarked comings and goings, should Dmitry's visit be anything of a secret one. And with intense impatience he awaited the faithful servant's visit.
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