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She laid her hand with a suspicion of caressing familiarity on his arm. 'Hush, then! Do you not know that it is inadmissible to mention the name of a masked lady until the clock strikes midnight? Captain Rallywood has been stationed near the Castle at Kofn Ford; we have therefore met occasionally, continued the lady, addressing herself to Mademoiselle Selpdorf.
Valerie had braced herself to meet this, and it only added proof to her own fears for his safety. Come what might, she would undertake any message from Isolde to get the opportunity of warning the Duke's guard of the coming danger, and to tell the fate of that gallant figure tossing to and fro in the battering rush of the Kofn. She drew herself away from Isolde's embrace with a shudder.
A new doubt, the old affection, and a strange helplessness mingled in the words, and they cut deep into Rallywood's ears. 'That was a bad knock on the head, muttered the Major apologetically, and sank forward on the horse's neck again unconscious. The road towards the block-house ran along the river bank past the Kofn Ford.
The one supreme obstacle which lurks always beside the mercenary's path had arisen to bar his advance at last. Valerie opened the door softly. She was trembling and afraid, but she would not be outdone in generosity by Rallywood. She had determined to thank him for the words spoken at Kofn Ford, and to show him how entirely she comprehended their chivalrous intention.
Thus it will be seen that Rallywood was about to enter the best company in Révonde. On a lofty cliff above the gorge from which the Kofn issues to curve round the Palace gardens, and exposed to the four winds of heaven, stands an imposing square block of grey buildings. These contain the permanent quarters of the Guard.
Her room occupied an exposed corner of the Castle tower, which stood on the edge of the gorge through which the Kofn chafed its way to the plains below the Ford. A narrow strip of ground scarcely six feet in width alone separated the wall of the tower from the precipice that fell sheer away to the foaming water far below. She tried to read but could not fix her attention.
The rest of the sentence was lost, as Rallywood managed at length to force his way through the crowd, which was thickening rapidly. Then he came upon a group of men he knew, men from the frontier, from the marshes about Kofn Ford and the crags of Pulesco, men with tanned skins like his own, and the mark of the collar rim of their high military tunics round their throats.
But the manner pointed to the fact that this must be the prisoner he was told to hold at Kofn Ford until to-morrow. Politics are apt to work out to curious issues in continental railways. Such things have happened many times, though they are not often noised abroad. The man lay with one arm thrown across the seat and his face buried in it.
'And your prisoner? The man whom I ordered you to keep at the block-house? The Chancellor half expected to hear that Counsellor was also in Révonde, and that Rallywood with an unassuming but unspeakable effrontery had called to explain his own view of the matter. 'Unziar is with him with Major Counsellor at Kofn Ford.
'Had the train come in collision with the carriage which you assert was on the down line 'The troops from Kofn and the railway people at Alfau can prove that. 'The mail might have been derailed, with no one can tell what loss of life. 'Count Simon holds life cheap, said Rallywood. 'No life that stands in his way can be safe. Not even the life of Mademoiselle Selpdorf!
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