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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Sir, your praise enhances its value," said De Lutera bowing profoundly; "I shall from henceforth esteem it priceless!" "Well said!" returned the King, "And rightly too! for diplomacy is wise in flattering a king to the last, even while meditating on his possible downfall! Adieu, Marquis! When we next meet, I shall expect good news!"
"'Pasquin Leroy'! I never heard the name in my life," he said fiercely. "Jost, you have been done! You mean to tell me you were such a fool as to trust an entire stranger with the whole financial plan of campaign, and that you were credulous enough to believe that he came from me me De Lutera, without any credentials?"
"Lutera will have to thank me for this," he said to himself; "And he will owe me both a place and a title!" He sat down at his desk in his warm and luxuriously-furnished study, turned over a few letters, and then glanced up at the clock. Its hands pointed to within a few minutes of midnight.
"I had an unpleasant dream last night about this very ring " "Ah!" ejaculated the King; "Did you dream that I had dropped it in the sea on my way to The Islands yesterday?" He spoke jestingly, yet with a kindly air, and Lutera gained courage to look boldly up and straight into his eyes.
As Pasquin Leroy, I discovered all the shameful speculations with the public money, carried on by Carl Perousse, and found that so far, at any rate, your accusations against him were founded in fact. At the first threatening suspicion of possible condemnation the Marquis de Lutera resigned, thus evidencing his guilty participation in the intended plunder.
"I tell you he dare not!" repeated Perousse quietly; "Unless he wishes to lose the Throne. I daresay if it came to that, we should get on quite as well if not better with a Republic!" Lutera looked at him with an amazed and reluctant admiration. "You talk of a Republic? You, who are for ever making the most loyal speeches in favour of the monarchy?"
"I never intended to lose!" said Perousse calmly; "I am not troubled with scruples. One form of trade is as good as another. The prime object of life nowadays is to make money!" Lutera looked at him, but said nothing.
"I presume your matter cannot wait, sir," said Jost, surveying him coolly, without rising from his seat, "but if it can " "It cannot!" returned Leroy, bluntly. Jost stared. "So! You come from the Marquis de Lutera?" "I do." "Your credentials?" Leroy stepped close up to him, and with a sudden movement, which was somewhat startling, held up his right hand.
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