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The other shook his head. "No," he said slowly, "it was not really I who sent for you. It was Her Majesty, the Queen." Before he had time for response the toreador caught the sound of a shaken curtain behind him, but since he stood facing the King he did not turn. Karyl, however, looked up, and then swiftly crossed the room.
"Karyl," she said plaintively, "if you only wanted to marry me for State reasons it would be different. It wouldn't hurt me then to hurt you. You mean so much as a friend, but I can never be in love with you. You are being unfair with yourself if you go on. I must be honest with you." Pagratide spoke slowly, and his voice carried the tremor of feeling.
Probably Cairo instead of Alexandria had been designated because the King had taken into consideration the possible danger from the plague at the seaport. He told Cara only that Karyl would join the vacation party there and kept to himself the reservation that his coming probably meant disaster. Yet when they reached Cairo there was no news awaiting them.
"Our object," he explained coldly, "was the disruption of Galavia's integrity. In reducing this Kingdom to a province, the supplanting of Karyl with Louis was essential only as an initial step. The instability of that government had to be demonstrated to the world by more continuous disorders. It was necessary to show that the Kingdom had become incapable of self-rule.
"And how do you propose," he demanded, "to persuade this loyal adviser of Karyl to accept a deputyship at the hands of Karyl's enemies?" Again Jusseret smiled. "It will be Von Ritz or a foreigner," he explained. "We must convince him that his beloved Kingdom can henceforth be only a province in any event that it may prosper under his guidance or suffer under a more oppressive hand.
His instructions had been to win into their confidence and do what he could. Two weeks later, in the small garden giving off from the King's private apartments, and perched half-way up the buttressed side of the rock on which sat the Palace, Karyl impatiently awaited the coming of Colonel Von Ritz.
At all events, while everything impossible has happened to us, I think we can, after all shake hands." Karyl extended his own. "I have spoken as I have," he went on, "because it was necessary to be frank. Meanwhile I must ask you to place me under yet another obligation. There is one safe place for her.
He had none of that righteous horror of crime which makes the face of murder hideous, but in its place he had all the terrors of the weak, and playing with life and death gave him over to panic. "I should suggest an announcement that King Karyl had fled for a time from the cares of State and was traveling as a private gentleman in strictest incognito, when sudden death overtook him.
An hour later the launch from the yacht took him aboard at the ancient stone jetty, where the fruit-venders and wine-sellers shouted their jargon, and the seaweed clung to the landing stage. When Karyl had returned to the Palace after the inspection of the Fortress do Freres, he had sent word at once to that part of the Palace where Cara had her suite.
How deep that cancer goes is a matter as to which we can only make guesses." Karyl took a few turns across the floor. "And by that you mean that we are over a volcano which may break into eruption at any moment?" Von Ritz nodded. "And the Queen " began Karyl. "I have been thinking of Her Majesty," said the Colonel.
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