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"It was you," she cried, "who killed my father, and sent my brothers into exile." "God help me!" he moaned. She turned to De Grost. "Take him away with you, please," she said. "I have finished with him." "Sophia!" he pleaded. She leaned across the table and struck him heavily upon the cheek. "If you stay here," she muttered, "I shall kill you myself...."
Hagon turned round and faced him. "Sir," he demanded, "do you believe that I am afraid of death?" De Grost looked at him steadfastly. "No," he answered. "You have proved the contrary." "If my identity is discovered," Hagon continued, "I have the means of instant death at hand. I do not use it because of my love for the one person who links me to this world.
"You will understand, of course," he said, "that this little entertainment is entirely for your amusement well stage-managed, perhaps, but my supers are not to be taken seriously. Since you are here, Baron, might I ask you to precede me a few steps to the tasting office?" "By all means," de Grost answered. "It is this way, I believe."
There were few people passing and practically no traffic. In front of him was a row of warehouses, all save one of which was wrapped in complete darkness. It was the one where some lights were still burning which De Grost stood and watched. The lights, such as they were, seemed to illuminate the ground floor only.
Our aim, at present, is to bring closer together your country and Great Britain. Russia hesitates because an actual rapprochement with us is equivalent to a permanent estrangement with Germany." Hagon nodded. "I understand," he said, in a low tone. "I have finished with politics. I have nothing to say to you." "I trust," de Grost persisted suavely, "that you will be better advised."
He half filled a glass and pushed the bottle towards Bernadine. "Greening's taste is unimpeachable," de Grost declared, setting down his glass empty. "No use being a director of a city business, you know, unless one interests oneself personally in it. Greening's judgment is simply marvellous. I have never tasted a more beautiful wine.
"Stop!" the man begged piteously. "Stop!" De Grost bowed. "I beg your pardon!" he said. "Now tell me," the man demanded, "what is your price? I have had money. There is not much left. Sophia is extravagant, and travelling costs a great deal. But why do I weary you with these things?" he added. "Let me know what I have to pay for your silence." "I am not a blackmailer," de Grost answered sternly.
De Grost came slowly forward into the middle of the room. "Count von Hern," he said, "I think that you had better leave." The woman found words. "Not yet," she cried, "not yet! Paul, listen to me. This man has told me a terrible thing." The breath seemed to come through Hagon's teeth like a hiss. "He has told you!" "Listen to me," she continued. "It is the truth which you must tell now.
"The hate of such a man," De Grost remarked complacently, "is worth having. He has had his own way over here for years. He seems to have found the knack of living in a maze of intrigue and remaining untouchable. There were a dozen things before I came upon the scene which ought to have ruined him. Yet there never appeared to be anything to take hold of.
He had made a little progress, but, after all, was it worth while? Supposing that the man with whom her husband was even at this moment closeted, was the Baron de Grost! He called a taxicab and drove at once to the Embassy of his country. Even at that moment, De Grost and the Russian Paul Hagon he called himself were standing face to face in the latter's sitting-room.
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