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"You believe that she is our enemy?" Nigel asked, with a look of trouble in his eyes. "She is Immelan's friend," Chalmers reminded him. "There was a man named Atcheson," Jesson began quietly Nigel nodded. "He was one of the men my uncle sent out. The first one was stabbed in Petrograd. Jim Atcheson was poisoned and died in Berlin."
I wonder whether we shall ever understand the exact nature of the danger with which we were faced." "It depends upon Prince Shan," she replied. "The terms were Immelan's, but the method was his." "Do you believe," he asked a little abruptly, "that the attempt on Prince Shan's life last night was made by Immelan?"
"It was through the information which Nita brought me," his master went on, "that I have been able to check the truth of Immelan's statement as to the French dispositions and the rapprochement with Italy. Nita has served me very well indeed. What she has done in this matter, she has done in a moment of caprice." "My lord," Li Wen ventured, "a woman is of no account in the plans of the greatest.
"The first is that the actual name of a town in Russia is given, and a telephone number in London. Kroten I have looked up on the map. It seems to be an unimportant place in a very desolate region. The telephone number is Oscar Immelan's." "That is interesting, though not surprising," Jesson declared.
"I find that my manner of life keeps the brain clear," Prince Shan said slowly. "I can see the truth sometimes when it is not very apparent. I saw the truth last night, Immelan, when I sent Sen Lu to die." Immelan's expression was indescribable. He sat with his mouth wide open. The hand which held his glass shook.
Naida was suddenly swung on one side, and the shot which rang out passed through Nigel's coat sleeve, grazing his wrist, the only shot that was fired. Prince Shan, watching for his moment, as his two attendants threw themselves upon the madman from behind, himself sprang forward, knocked Immelan's right hand up with a terrible blow, and sent the revolver crashing to the ground.
"Immelan's position," he explained, "is largely a sentimental one, yet on the other hand he saves his country from what might be a grave calamity. The commercial advantages he gains under this treaty might seem to be inadequate, although in effect they are very considerable. The point is this. He soothes his country of the pain which groans day by day in her limbs.
Again there was a brief silence. The minds of all three of them were busy with the same thought. Prince Shan's word had been spoken and Immelan's hopes dashed to the ground, and within a few hours, this murder! They nursed the thought, but no one put it into words. A sleepy-eyed porter opened the door of the car outside the Milan Court. Naida gathered herself together with a little shiver.
She has seen Prince Shan, and between them I believe that they have decided to let Oscar Immelan's scheme alone. Karschoff, too, has heard rumours. He is of the same opinion. Somehow or other, though, I seem to have lost my sense of perspective. A greater fear has come into my heart, Maggie." She rose to her feet and laid her hands upon his shoulders. "Nigel," she whispered, "I cannot answer you.
When our agreement is concluded and known to the world, she will look upon you as an enemy." "As yet," Prince Shan answered calmly, "our agreement is not concluded." Immelan's face darkened. Nothing but his awe of the man with whom he sat prevented an expression of anger.
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