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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Perhaps to-morrow is the anniversary of some great event in my history, and that is why I long to see it. I do not know, but in us all there is a vein of superstition. I will go and relieve Anton." Stefan watched her as she went up the stairs and disappeared into the upper chamber. "If anyone could make me change my opinion of women, she would," he said; but Ellerey took no notice of the remark.
Ellerey released his hold of the girl; indeed, she pulled her hand away that she might not detain him from dashing to the rescue, and, as he touched the stairs, he heard the door close with a loud reverberating slam behind him. "Quickly!" she cried after him. The house was dark and quiet, doubly quiet it seemed now that the door had closed.
The people will remember that there are others with an equal, or better, right to the throne than his Majesty, and then you will have the revolution." "I presume, monsieur, the leader is found, and only awaits the opportunity?" said Ellerey. "You are right, Captain, she is found," De Froilette answered slowly. "A woman!" Ellerey exclaimed, and he felt the color flush to his face as he spoke.
Is it not true that a woman can frame her questions so that a man is compelled to answer?" "Some men, perhaps." "Captain Ellerey, I think," said the Ambassador. "Under certain conditions." "Exactly," he answered. "When the questions are asked by one particular woman," she said. "You have caught my meaning exactly, Countess." "But as it happens, Lord Cloverton, I am not the one particular woman."
The brigands yelled with rage, and the soldiers shouted back coarse oaths. "It would do my soul good to have a shot at them," said Stefan. "Let them go," said Ellerey. "We shall want every shot we have. We are not without friends in the capital who may hear of our need. Against their will these fellows may help us." The soldiers below moved on.
"Knowing that the Princess always had it in her mind to use Captain Ellerey when the time came," she went on, "I have little doubt she has joined him in whatever mission he has undertaken. What art she will, or can, use to turn him to her service, I do not know." "He is not the man to be lightly turned from the cause he has espoused," said the Baron thoughtfully, "and that cause is not ours."
"I understand, and I shall respect it," she answered, eager to learn what explanation the Ambassador would give. "He had enemies in England who made certain charges against him which were absolutely without foundation; but so skilfully had they been manipulated that Captain Ellerey was unable to prove them false.
Possibly they had themselves been deceived, even as they had attempted to deceive. Ellerey could not doubt that Princess Maritza had a considerable following in Sturatzberg, that the seeds of the rebellion were widely scattered. The soldiers now riding toward the capital would spread the news of failure, and the rebellion in self-defence might be forced to break into open conflict at once.
The defense was weakened at several points, more horsemen fought their way in, and with them foot-soldiers gained an entrance. Step by step the rebels were driven backward toward the statue where Maritza stood. "Will those others never fight their way to us?" she cried in almost piteous tones. "You cannot stay here," said Ellerey. "Come!" Men were already rushing past them.
Once or twice Anton stopped in his pacing backward and forward to look steadily toward the head of the pass. "Can you hear the tramping feet?" Ellerey asked when he stopped again. "No, Captain." "Can you see anything?" "No, Captain; but it is too good a morning to accept failure." "The sun doesn't put on mourning for every miserable dog that dies."
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