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"I had to give them the name of some man who they knew would be able to do what I have promised we could do who could put a stop to the revolution. The name I gave was his Kalonay's." Barrat threw himself forward in his chair. "Kalonay's?" he cried, incredulously. "Kalonay's?" echoed Erhaupt. "What madness, Madame! Why name the only one who is sincere?"
Barrat knew it, Erhaupt knew it, the King himself planned it to get money. He has robbed all of his own people; he had meant to rob this young girl; and he is so mean and pitiful a creature that to save himself he now tries to hide behind the skirts of a woman, and to sacrifice her, the woman who has given her soul to him.
They will see that I am lying. Send me away. Send me away before they come. Tell them I saw the Frenchman, and suspected I had been found out, and that I have gone away. Tell them you don't know where I am." "I believe she's right," Erhaupt said. "She will do us more harm than good. Let her go to her room and wait there." "She will remain where she is," said the King, sternly.
Ah, pardon," he added quickly, as he pointed to a stout elderly gentleman who walked rapidly toward them through the garden. "The Gibraltar boat must be in, sir. Here is Baron Barrat coming up the path." Colonel Erhaupt gave an exclamation of satisfaction, and waved his hand to the newcomer in welcome. "Go tell his Majesty," he said to the servant. The man hesitated and bowed.
A few moments later, when the conspirators entered the King's salon, preceded by Erhaupt, they found the boy standing by his father's knee. The King had his hand upon the child's head, and had been interrupted apparently in a discourse on the dignity of kingship, for the royal crown of Messina had been brought out and stood beside him on the table, and his other hand rested on it reverently.
At the first hint which the King gave of his desire to place himself again in power, Kalonay had ceased to be his Jackal and would have issued forth as a commander-in-chief, had the King permitted him; but it was not to Louis's purpose that the Prince should know the real object of the expedition, so he assigned its preparation to Erhaupt, and despatched Kalonay to the south of the island.
He wrote a book on the slave trade in the Congo," contributed Colonel Erhaupt. "I met him at Zanzibar. What does he want with us?" "He was in Yokohama when the Japanese-Chinese war broke out," said Kalonay, turning to the King, "and he cabled a London paper he would follow the war for it if they paid him a hundred a week.
I, who have an interest second only to your own, ask that that cablegram be read." There was a murmur of approbation from the conspirators, and exclamations of approval and entreaty. Miss Carson, in her excitement, had risen to her feet and was standing holding her mother's hand. The King glanced uncertainly at Kalonay, and then turned to Barrat and Erhaupt as if in doubt.
Barrat, in the excess of his relief, turned his back sharply on the King, glancing sideways at Erhaupt and shaking his head in speechless admiration. "He is wonderful, simply wonderful," Erhaupt muttered; "he would have made a great actor or a great diplomat." "He is wasted as a King," whispered Barrat.
And to help him live up to it he has surrounded himself with a parcel of adventurers as rascally as himself: a Colonel Erhaupt who was dropped from a German regiment, and who is a Colonel only by the favor of the Queen of Madagascar; a retired croupier named Barrat; and a fallen angel called Kalonay, a fellow of the very best blood in Europe and with the very worst morals.
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