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Updated: June 16, 2025
'Put it how you like, Monsieur, I should not have been here either but for you! Elmur stood with folded arms. To stoop to recriminations before the common enemy! The cause was lost for the moment, but there was the future, and in that future the fool who figured as his ally should become his slave! Germany had, after all, gained something in gaining the knowledge of British designs afoot.
'Whom can we trust? she asked suddenly, almost in a whisper, for Elmur, seeing her in conversation with Counsellor, now approached with a ceremonious air. Counsellor smiled as he stood squarely beside her. 'Choose! he said, briefly. 'Choose what? asked Elmur in his most deferential manner. 'Madamoiselle's choice in the most trivial matters is of importance. Valerie smiled.
Valerie looked up and smiled miserably. 'Au revoir, she repeated faintly. With that the door closed behind her as Sagan led her away to his wife, and Elmur, affecting not to see the two men who were passing, strolled on singing a love-song under his breath. Unziar paused, then drew Rallywood with him into the centre of the wide lighted passage, where they could speak with more freedom.
Men who don't love women, love money, and men who do 'Love both, said Elmur quietly. 'To-morrow night Colendorp shall be here with me. You also will be present. Colendorp is a poor man as men go in the Guard and we must approach him softly and by degrees, said Sagan. Elmur concealed a smile.
Counsellor did not appear in the negotiations. He remained shut up at the Legation, but when at length they came to public knowledge the German party were not under any delusion; they recognised to whose direct offices they owed defeat. Baron von Elmur said nothing, as a matter of fact he did nothing, but he used his influence with an effect that was yet to bear fruit.
'This is not the age of miracles, my friend! 'I remember also something which your Excellency forgets, said Selpdorf, with a touch of sadness in his voice, 'that there have been Selpdorfs helping in this miracle of the independence of Maäsau for generations. Elmur altered his attitude with an open impatience. 'You are a far-sighted patriot, Monsieur.
'Am I then to have the pleasure of an interview with Mademoiselle to-day? he inquired. 'I hope she exonerates me from any blame in connection with the announcement made at Sagan? 'Entirely. But she is inclined to insist that her consent was conditional no more. 'I only desire the opportunity of assuring her of my entire devotion, said Elmur.
'By the way, resumed Counsellor, 'did I tell you that I saw von Elmur yesterday at Charing Cross? He said he was starting for Constantinople. I bade him good-bye, but he corrected me, "Au revoir, my dear Major," and kissed the tips of his fingers to me as the train passed. So perhaps the end is not yet. 'God bless the present! said Rallywood.
She must secure an ally, a friend powerful enough to back her up against all comers a great nation who will make the cause of Maäsau's freedom her own, and help us to preserve the traditions of our country. Elmur half expected the soldier to point this speech for himself by a glance towards the representative of Germany, but Colendorp sat unresponsive and black-browed, and gave no sign.
How absurd, how impossible! And she suddenly laughed a soft, throaty ripple of laughter. Isolde moved noiselessly, and coming behind Valerie, caught her by the shoulders and swung her half round. 'What are you laughing at? she asked over the girl's shoulder. Valerie moved away gently from under the slender hands. 'Can you imagine yourself in love with Baron von Elmur? she asked.
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