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He was only a lad, this Austrian noble, but John's heart felt a touch of sympathy. A common love made them akin and he knew that Kratzek's love like his own was the love of youth, high and pure. He felt neither hate nor jealousy of the Austrian. His eyes went back to Julie and Auersperg.
Now his own look was straight and high, and it was Kratzek's that wavered. "You pledge your word that you are not seeking to pry into our military secrets?" asked the Austrian at length. "No such purpose is in my mind at all, and I leave here within twenty-four hours as ignorant of them as I was when I came." "Then, sir, I do not know you.
While John was at the stables young Kratzek sent for his horse, and John, after his custom, led the animal to him. He had long since ceased to fear discovery by the Austrian, and his immunity made him careless, or it may be that Kratzek's eyes were uncommonly keen that day.
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