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Get rid of this young Larisch." The Chancellor sat reflecting, his chin dropped forward on his breast. "Otto will miss him." "Well, out with it. I may not dismiss him. What, then?" "It is always easy to send men away. But it is sometimes better to retain them, and force them to your will. We have here an arrangement that is satisfactory. Larisch is keen, young, and loyal.
There was more to this than appeared. Somewhere ahead, then, was Nikky Larisch, with a motor that did got belong to him, and wearing clothing which his victim described as a chauffeur's coat of leather, breeches and puttees, and a fur greatcoat over all. "Had the snow commenced when this happened?" "Not then; sir. Shortly after."
After all, he might have a right to know about Nikky Larisch. But there were others who had rights, too Otto to his throne, her mother and Hilda and all the others, to safety, her grandfather to die in peace, the only gift she could give him. "What I think you want to tell me, is something I already know," Karl said gravely. "Suppose I am willing to take that chance?
Then, instead of going to the wing where the Court was gathered, they would go up to Hubert's rooms, and from there to the roof and the secret passage. Two obstacles were left for the Countess to cope with, and this was her part of the work. She had already a plan for Miss Braithwaite. But Nikky Larisch? Over that problem, during the long night hours, Olga Loschek worked.
But when it was all over, and Hedwig was only a trifle wobbly and horribly humiliated, Nikky Larisch knew the truth about himself, knew that he was in love with the granddaughter of his King, and that under no conceivable circumstances would he ever be able to tell her so. Knew, then, that happiness and he had said a long farewell, and would thereafter travel different roads. It had stunned him.
"He said he smoked too many cigarettes, and " "Is Captain Larisch ill?" Hedwig looked at the governess, and lost some of her bright color. Miss Braithwaite did not know, and said so. "At the very least," she went on, "he should have sent some word. I do not know what things are coming to. Since His Majesty's illness, no one seems to have any responsibility, or to take any."
The Countess saw much with her curiously wide, almost childishly bland eyes; it was only now that it occurred to her to turn what she knew of Hedwig and Nikky to account. She stopped pacing the floor, and sat down. Suppose Hedwig and Nikky Larisch went away together? Hedwig, she felt, would have the courage even for that. That would stop things. But Hedwig did not trust her.
"Done with him?" echoed Karl. "If as Captain Larisch you refer to a madman who the night before last " "I do, sire. Madman is the word." Of course, it is not etiquette to interrupt a king. But kings were no novelty to the Chancellor. And quite often, for reasons of state, he had found interruptions necessary. "He is a prisoner," Karl said, in a new tone, stern enough now.
I received only a sheet of blank paper." "Karl!" She leaped to her feet. She was no mean actress. And behind it all was her real terror, greater, much greater, than he could know. Whatever design she had on Karl's pity, she was only acting at the beginning. Deadly peril was clutching her, a double peril, of the body and of the soul. "Taken! By whom?" "By some one you know young Larisch."
And that was how the Chancellor of the kingdom learned that Captain Larisch, aide-de-camp to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, had disappeared. "I am afraid it is serious," she said, watching him with wide, terrified eyes. "I know more than you think I do. I we hear things, even in the Palace." Irony here, but unconscious. "I know that there is trouble.
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