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By some instinct, without looking at him, she seemed to see his angry, questioning gaze. 'Au revoir, she added to Elmur, with a coquettish ring in her voice. 'Ah, Mademoiselle, I live for that only to see you again, began Elmur. Sagan cut him short. 'Tut, tut, Baron, too many eyes are looking on to permit of such endearments as these! Ardour in a betrothed lover is natural, yet
She reminded herself that Jack had preferred Valerie but, why, so had Elmur! A temptation came to her; she glanced again at Elmur. He was personable though advancing to middle age, and handsome as men go, though his eyes were close-set and cunning.
'A gentleman of the Guard. And before Rallywood could explain the mistake the curtain had dropped behind them and he was left standing alone. In Baron von Elmur he recognized the oblique carriage of the head and the high-shouldered figure of the third man he had seen with the newspaper correspondents in the Grand Square that afternoon.
At this crisis, however, Elmur would gladly have hedged or masked his position, for he knew himself to be overmuch at the mercy of the equivocal tact and discretion of his ungovernable coadjutor. 'I cannot help thinking that my presence at the outset will make Captain Colendorp shy at any proposition whatever, said Elmur again. 'Do you want to draw back?
The good God had given the Russian craft and a silent tongue, and a facility for telling a lie seasonably. Elmur was by a fraction of a second too late to see what the Russian had seen. Valerie was very white, but she was talking indifferently to M. Blivinski with her eyes fixed upon her plate.
Her heart seemed in her ears and answered to every sound. And all the while in the scattered rooms and shadowy passages the drama which involved her life was being slowly played out. Below on the ground floor of the tower Elmur and Sagan sat together.
Valerie, as the Baroness von Elmur, was to be her father's guarantee for the future! Although Elmur's desires lay in the same direction, Selpdorf's insistence was most unpalatable to the German minister. 'I am ready to lay myself at Mademoiselle's feet, he said aloud, 'but there is always the picturesque young captain of the Guard. 'Unziar?
Elmur, apparently forgetful of the deep personal devotion he had so lately manifested, was conversing with a group of Maäsaun nobles, his back turned conveniently towards her. Sagan had disappeared, and not one of those whom she knew so well, and who, ten minutes ago, would have felt honoured by seeking her, but now seemed too deeply engaged to notice that she stood alone.
'By the way, my dear Count, have you ever thought of the possibility of Captain Colendorp's refusal to see things in our light? Elmur was asking, after an interval filled in by the noises of wind and water which could not be shut out of the Castle on such a night. The Count looked up and scowled. 'Leave the management of the affair to me, he said.
One has illusions, doubtless, but none so entirely absurd! I have idealised my own desire merely. I want good luck. I am "Good Luck!" She spoke the last two words in English, smiling back at Elmur. The Baron bowed. He was not beaten yet. 'That is well, he exclaimed; 'since the cavalry and Guard are disowned, it means that the good luck is for the poor diplomat!
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