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Her light silk dress was torn to shreds in this unequal struggle, and so great was Heideck's indignation at the monstrous brutality of the assailants that he did not for a moment hesitate to turn his weapon upon the tall, wild-looking fellow, whose brown hands were roughly clutching the bare arms of the young lady. He fired, and with a short, dull cry of pain the fellow reeled to the ground.
Perhaps the Colonel would have preferred that nothing should be said in Heideck's presence about the poisoning attempt. His wife's impatience and excitement, however, could not be restrained. "Well, Doctor Hopkins," she asked, "and what have you found?" The Doctor evidently had been waiting for this. "One of the most deadly poisons the Indians know," he answered. "The diamond powder.
Captain Heideck's statement that he travelled for a Hamburg firm was not really an untruth. As a matter of fact he was engaged in commercial undertakings, which served as a cloak for the real object of his travels.
For this stalwart man with the soft black beard and penetrating eyes, who in the picturesque attire of his country would doubtless have been a handsome and imposing figure, made an inharmonious impression in his grey English suit and with the red turban on his head. He sat in an English club chair, covered with red Russia leather and gently inclined his head in response to Heideck's deep bow.
A new hope awoke in Heideck's breast, and he felt himself once more fettered in a thousand bonds to life, which he just before thought he had entirely parted from. He endeavoured to walk more slowly, in order to gain time.
Baird is suffering from one of her bad attacks of headache and has had to lie down for a short time." Heideck's face told Edith clearly enough that he gladly forgave his host and hostess this little impoliteness. After having taken a chair opposite hers, he began "I hope most sincerely, Mrs. Irwin, that you have had no annoyance on account of my late call.
According to Heideck's ideas of mobilisation progress was much too slow, and the Maharajah appeared still less in a hurry with the equipment of his auxiliary troops. Military trains from the South passed without cessation through Chanidigot, carrying horses and troops further north.
Herr Casper's daughter, Frau Isabella Siebenburg, had already, with her twin sons, found shelter at the Knight Heideck's castle. Her husband, who had joined his guilty brothers, would speedily fall into the hands of justice and reap what he had sowed. For the final settlement of this affair he begged the Honourable Council to appoint commissioners, whom he would willingly join.
It was certainly not an orderly from his office, which was open day and night, for soldiers' fingers as a rule knocked harder. "Come in!" he said. The door opened slowly, and Heideck saw, in the dimly-lighted corridor, a slender form in a long oilskin cape and a large sailor's hat, the brim of which was pressed down over the forehead. A wild idea flashed through Heideck's mind.
Irwin, Prince?" The Colonel's face assumed at Heideck's question a strangely serious, almost repellent expression. "No." "But it is more than probable that she is in his camp." "Possibly, although up to now every proof of that is wanting." "But you will institute inquiries for her, will you not? You will compel the Maharajah to give us news of her whereabouts?"
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