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Updated: June 13, 2025
"What must be the greatest desire in your heart," Seaman said solemnly, "is to be granted. The Kaiser has expressed a desire to see you, to give you his instructions in person." Dominey stopped short upon the terrace. He withdrew his arm from his companion's and stared at him blankly. "The Kaiser?" he exclaimed. "You mean that I am to go to Germany?" "We shall start at once," Seaman replied.
This Rosamund Dominey, your reputed wife they tell me that she is beautiful, that you have been kindness itself to her, that her health has improved since your coming, that she adores you. You wouldn't dare " "No," he interrupted, "I should not dare." "Then what are you looking at?" she demanded. "Tell me that?" Her eyes were following the shadowed picture which had passed out of the room.
"The knowledge must have come to me," she went on, dropping her voice a little and whispering almost in his ear, "at the very moment when my dagger rested upon your throat, when I suddenly felt the desire to kill die away. You are very like him sometimes, but you are not Everard. You are not my husband at all. You are another man." Dominey gave a little gasp. They both turned towards the door.
"It was certainly a magnificent way of establishing me," Dominey admitted. "Magnificent, but safest in the long run," Seaman declared.
The Prince crossed the room, unlocked one of the smaller safes, which stood against the side of the wall, withdrew a morocco-bound volume the size of a small portfolio, and returned to Dominey. "I beg you," he said earnestly, "to read this with the utmost care and to await my instructions with regard to it. You can judge, no doubt," he went on a little bitterly, "why I give it into your keeping.
Deliberately he waited, waited for what he knew must soon come. Then the deep silence of the breathless night was broken by that familiar, unearthly scream. Dominey waited till even its echoes had died away. Then he ran a few steps, bent double, and stretched out his hands.
I am now at the end of my first year in this country. I feel able to congratulate myself upon a certain measure of success. From that part of the Cabinet with whom I have had to do, I have received nothing but encouragement in my efforts to promote a better understanding between our two countries." "The sky certainly seems clear enough just now," agreed Dominey.
I have arranged for an escort to see them to town. Tell the colonel I'll be over later in the day." The Princess rose from the chair into which she had subsided a few moments before. Dominey turned towards her. "Princess," he said, "there can be little conversation between us. Yet I shall ask you to remember this. Von Ragastein planned my death in cold blood.
The two men looked steadily into each other's eyes. Dominey watched them, fascinated. Neither betrayed himself by even the fall of an eyelid. Yet Dominey, his perceptive powers at their very keenest in this moment which instinct told him was one of crisis, felt the unspoken, unbetokened recognition which passed between them. Some commonplace remark was uttered and responded to.
The silence which reigned for several seconds was intense and profound. The coolest of all four was perhaps Dominey. The Princess was pale with a passion which seemed to sob behind her words. "Everard Dominey," she cried, "what have you done with my lover? What have you done with Leopold Von Ragastein?" "He met with the fate," Dominey replied, "which he had prepared for me.
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