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There was a murmur of compliment from the Turk, adding his assurance of interest, and the Frenchman took up the thread of his narrative. "We supposed that Karyl was dead the Throne of Galavia clear for Delgado. Alas, we were in error!" The speaker shook his head in deep regret, as, turning to Martin, he added: "It was a pardonable mistake. Let us hope the announcement was merely premature."
Karyl realized that the Jackal was not to be led away from his single purpose: that of execution. If he himself were to speak to his rescuers, he must do it quickly. He raised his voice. "Von Ritz!
Benton rose and paced the deck in deep reflection. At last he halted and spread his hands in a gesture half-despairing. "My God!" he said in a low voice. "The anxiety will drive me mad! You saw their methods. An entire cortége was to be blown into the air just to kill Karyl. Next time, what will they attempt?" He broke off with a shudder. "I have seen the Queen," said Blanco slowly.
Karyl and the bull-fighter raced across to the boat that lay at the water's edge. In a moment more it was afloat and they were at the oars. The moon emerged and at the same instant an outcry came from above. The musket of the man in the lower sentry-box barked with a blatant reverberation. One of the figures in the boat drooped forward and sagged limply over his oars.
To him a King was, at last analysis, only the best product of the King-maker's craft. He was a King-maker before him stood a tired boy whom he loved. "You will fight," he said, "and you will fight with hell's fury. The first step will be to recapture this Pretender. With him in hand " "Which is in itself impossible," retorted Karyl.
The Lieutenant sat at the crude table in the center of the small room and talked rapidly, as one rehearsing a well-learned lesson. "The Fortress do Freres is stocked with explosives. Karyl goes there with Von Ritz and others of his suite to inspect the place with the view of turning it into a prison.
Somehow, between the American and this emissary of Karyl, there could never be any attitude other than that of the utmost formality. Von Ritz sketched the situation. "It is important that the world should not know of Her Majesty's departure. It would be an admission to the conspirators that the King feels his weakness, and would invite attack.
The windows on the small garden still stood open and the moon, riding farther down the west, bathed the outer world in shimmer of silver, but at each door stood a sentinel. Karyl remembered that during Louis Delgado's recent captivity he had fared in precisely the same manner, neither better nor worse.
That done, his patriotism will prove our ally. We have only to convince him that no member of Karyl's house can reign and live and that it must be himself or an alien." "It would have been as easy," demurred the Portuguese delegate, "to have persuaded Von Ritz that Karyl himself should abdicate." Jusseret felt the hostility of the other members.
"Recovery is despaired of, though death may not be immediate." Karyl turned away, not wishing the soldier to see the tears he felt in his eyes, and Von Ritz discreetly withdrew as far as the door. There he paused, and after a moment's hesitation inquired: "Her Highness goes to Maritzburg to her father's Court I presume?" With his back still turned, the Prince nodded. "Why?" he demanded.
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