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Updated: May 16, 2025
As the castle clock struck one hour after another, the baroness felt that every minute was carrying the secret further beyond her reach, and yet, as the time passed, the effect of that secret's existence upon her own mind grew more and more clear to herself. She could never give Hilda to Greif.
And as they talked, the banner, hoisted by Wastei's wiry arms, reached the very top of the staff, and remained there, waving majestically, where many a one like it had waved during eight hundred years and more. At that moment Greif, in his carriage, was coming up the last ascent. He saw the lordly standard, changed colour a little and then rose in the light vehicle and uncovered his head.
It would be easy to toss it into the flames before Greif's eyes. But if ever all those things should happen of which he had been thinking, what proof would remain that the baroness or her daughter had a right to what was theirs even now? If ever that time came, Greif would not believe a spoken word.
There was a stir near the door, and Greif looked round, idly at first, to see what was the matter, then with an expression of dismay. A man had entered the hall, a man with a ghastly face, who seemed to be making inquiries of the knot of Korps servants who waited for their tardy masters.
Surely, no three were ever so bound together as we are. It is strange and wonderful. 'But the bond is closest here, my beloved! exclaimed Hilda, as her arms went round him. 'Ay, closest and best! answered Greif, as their lips met. During that long and eventful morning Frau von Sigmundskron had been alone. Of all the four she only knew no sadness.
'You and your family are threatened with great misfortune through the return of an evil person a relation, I should fancy who has been absent many years. Greif started at the directness of the assertion, and an exclamation of something like anger rose to his lips. But he remembered the compact he had just made. 'Will he return? he asked in a voice which showed Rex that he was not mistaken.
One more pressure of the hands and then Greif and Hilda turned and went away. The door closed softly behind them, and Rex was alone. He went and took up the revolver that Hilda had laid upon the table, looked at it long, and then placed it in the drawer, and turned the key upon it.
'You are above all earthly women, he said simply. 'I? No. Any woman would do as much, and it is so little. If you would only think, dear, it is so very little and it is for myself, too. Could I do anything else? Could any woman do less, even the most selfish? 'I know none who would do as much, Greif answered.
Hilda looked at Rex, wondering what the real nature of the strange man might be, pleased by what he had said and yet surprised that he should have said so much. Rex met her fixed gaze and turned his head away instantly. Greif took a fresh glass. 'Your health, my dear Rex, he said. He always called him Rex from old habit. 'Your health, dear cousin Horst! exclaimed Hilda.
'It would be natural, answered Greif rather gravely. 'I should have expected to prefer any spot of the world to this. 'Man is the world, and all that therein is, and the earth he stands on, is no more to him than the clothes he wears. If a thought is in your heart, can you get rid of it by changing your coat?
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