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Her divorce followed soon after, and she remained at court as the duke's favorite mistress. He presently procured for her an imperial title, that of Countess Hohenheim, and after the death of his duchess, in 1780, he married her. She was not beautiful or talented, but she possessed amiable qualities that made and kept her the object of Karl's honest affection.
The Emperor-king was old and ill; the disorders in Hungary were to cloak the assassination of his successor; then the Archduke Francis, Karl's reputed son, was to be installed upon the throne." "Yes; there has been a conspiracy; I " "And there have been conspirators!
Willard, who was in charge of Karl's laboratory, and who was Karl without Karl's genius, turned her over to Mr. Beason, his assistant. Beason would show her how to "help." Her sense of humour helped her there. It was amusing that one who was learning to "help" should be such an encumbrance. And there were many amusing things about Mr. Beason.
We know that she had many friends amongst the officers, and it is probable that from one of these she was able to get information about Karl's movements. Bruges was probably a hot-bed of U-boat gossip, and, not unlike the conditions at certain other Naval ports during the war, the ladies were often too well informed.
He failed to pass his examination and left the school in consequence. Literature being closed to him, he entered the Polytechnic school, intending to fit himself for business life, but failed here also. That Karl's conduct caused the master much anxiety appears in his letters to him. In some of them he entreats him to do better, in others he upbraids him.
Then think of the tremendousness of this work Karl Hubers is doing! where it strikes the hearts breaking for it the thousands praying for it! Is it any wonder we're watching it? Interested? I tell you we know what it means." She was unconscious of the tear on her cheek, of the quivering of her face. "And Karl is doing that? That is what Karl's work means?"
He must be a person of considerable importance to be fetched by special train straight into the Emperor's private apartments, where very few people ever penetrate, I assure you. But I've never heard of him. He's certainly not a Court official. Nor is he the head of the Political Police ... that's Henninger, a friend of Karl's.
There are two or three awfully nice people coming over. One of Karl's classmates at Harvard, and two boys from the Tech and a nice curly-haired freshman from Dartmouth. And there is a Smith girl, perfectly charming, and a rather frumpy one from Wellesley who knows your Polly Osgood, or rather knows who she is.
And something else he felt, although he said nothing the stress of a situation which would send his Chancellor out at midnight, into a driving storm, to secure Karl's support. Things must be bad indeed! "To the capital?" he asked. "Not so far. Karl is hunting. He is at Wedeling." He went almost immediately, and the King summoned his valets, and was got to bed.
"Colonel Stanistreet, I believe," he said in a sonorous voice "Karl's" unmistakable voice "chief of the American bureau of the British Secret Service?" "I am Colonel Stanistreet," that gentleman admitted. "And you, sir ?" "I have adopted the name of Andre Duchemin," the impostor stated. "With permission I retain it." Colonel Stanistreet inclined his head slightly. "As you will. Pray be seated."
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