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Updated: June 7, 2025
I do not ask for forgiveness, but this I promise you, Ermentrude: if the little clock comes back, I will make a place in it for this ring, and neither clock nor ring shall leave me again while I live." Instinctively her hands went out to him, then they fell back on her breast.
Then after a moment of silence dear to both their hearts, she drew back to give her friend one other look, and quietly said: "His heart is mine now, Ermentrude, wholly and truly mine. And so you would have it be, I am sure. Life looks fair to me and very sweet; but however fair, however sweet, that life is yours if ever you want it and when you want it.
As she smiled, he caught her to his breast. "We have yet a week," he cried, and left her hurriedly, precipitately. It was their last ride and they had gone far too far, Ermentrude thought, for a day so chilly and a sky so threatening.
Roberts was in Switzerland, as his housekeeper will be obliged to admit on oath, she being an honest woman and a domestic in his mother's house at the time. And Ermentrude Taylor! I have a witness to prove where she was also! A witness I should be glad to have you interrogate. Here is her name and address." And he slipped a small scrap of paper into the District Attorney's hand.
"Yes, but his princess holds one for him!" was the jesting reply. The carriage door slammed. They rolled homeward, and Ermentrude suffered from a desperate sense of the unachieved. The princess had been impertinent, the Kéroulans rather banal. Mrs. Sheldam watched her charge's face in the intermittent lights of the Rue de Rivoli. "I think your poet a bore," she essayed.
Meanwhile the young woman she had instinctively called gentle advanced into the center of the room. Mechanically, Ermentrude rose to meet her, and thus stepped into a better light. Tragedy came with her. This it was impossible not to see not to feel.
"Look you, they have had wondrous ill-luck with their children; the Freiherrinn Kunigunde has had a dozen at least, and only two are alive, my young Freiherr and my young Lady Ermentrude; and no wonder, you would say, if you could see the gracious Freiherrinn, for surely Dame Holda made a blunder when she fished her out of the fountain woman instead of man.
The height of the keep was intended for dignity and defence, rather than for habitation; and the upper chamber, with its great state-bed, where everybody of the house of Adlerstein was born and died, was not otherwise used, except when Ermentrude, unable to bear the oppressive confusion below stairs, had escaped thither for quietness' sake. No one else wished to inhabit it.
Ermentrude shuddered, and her position changing, the hand which had been uppermost fell down at her side and the ring slipped left her finger paused on the edge of the couch then came to rest in his palm held out to receive it. He had not drawn it from her hand. Fate had restored it.
"Not to-night. An officer will remain here with you. To-morrow after the inquest, perhaps." "I will make a statement. I will make it now. I wish to be left in peace to-night, to think and to regret." Then turning to her, "Ermentrude, a woman who has served me and my family for twenty-five years is at this very moment in the rear of the house. Go to her and let her care for you.
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