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The two depended on each other; and Lutera, conscious that if Perousse gained any fresh accession of power, it would be to his, Lutera's, advantage, was gradually preparing to gracefully resign his position in the younger and more ambitious man's favour. But he was not altogether comfortable in his mind since his last interview with the King.
"Are you aware," he asked at last, "that Jost, to save his 'press' prestige, has turned informer against you?" Perousse sprang up, white with fury. "By Heaven, if he has dared! "There is no 'if' in the case" said Lutera very coldly "He has, as he himself says, 'done his duty. You must be pretty well cognisant of what a Jew's notions of 'duty' are!
With this, he turned on his heel, and left his colleague to a space of very disagreeable meditation. For the first time in his bold and unscrupulous career, Perousse found himself in an awkward position. If it were indeed true that Jost and Lutera had thrown up the game, especially Jost, then he, Perousse, was lost. He had made of Jost, not only a tool, but a confidant.
"Fool!" ejaculated Perousse, forgetting all courtesy in the sudden access of rage that took possession of him at these words; "Fool, I say! At the very moment when you ought to stick to the ship, you desert it!" "Are you not ready to run to the helm?" enquired Lutera with a satiric smile; "Surely you can have no doubt but that his Majesty will command you to take office!"
Here he handed over the card in question, a small, unobtrusive bit of pasteboard, laid in solitary grandeur on a very large silver salver. David Jost took it up, and scanned it with some curiosity. "'Pasquin Leroy'! H'm! Don't know the name at all. 'Urgent business; bear private credentials from the Marquis de Lutera'!" He paused again, considering, then turned to the waiting attendant.
His meditations on this occasion were interrupted by a touch on the shoulder from behind, and, looking up, he saw the Marquis de Lutera. "Almost a riot!" he said, forcing a pale smile, "But not quite!" "Say, rather, almost a revolution!" retorted the Marquis brusquely; "Jesting is out of place. We are on the brink of a very serious disaster! The people are roused.
He will alter his mind in a few days, when the exigency of the matters in hand becomes apparent to him. In the same way, he will revoke his decision about that grant of land to the Jesuits. He must let them have their way." "What benefit do we get by favouring the Jesuits?" asked Lutera.
Contracts for army supplies were being secretly tendered; and one was already secretly accepted and arranged for, in which Carl Perousse and the Marquis de Lutera were to derive enormous interest; the head of the concern being David Jost.
"A strange character, without doubt, but " He paused and spoke more emphatically "She has power!" Lutera gave a gesture of irritation. "Bah! Over whom does she exercise it. Over one man or many?" "Over one half the population at least," responded Silvano, quietly, turning over a few papers without looking up. The Marquis stared at him, slightly amused.
"You seem fatigued, Marquis!" he said, as, rising to receive his distinguished guest, he placed a chair for him opposite his own. "Was his Majesty's conversazione more tedious than usual?" Lutera looked at him with a dubious air. "No! it was brief enough so far as I was immediately concerned," he replied; "I do not suppose I stayed more than twenty minutes in the Throne-room altogether.
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