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A single year would wipe us out of existence. What say you, Beliani, and you, Marulitch? Why are you dumb? Was it for this that we have striven through so many years? Shall our country be wrecked now because a hot headed youth puts his vows to a woman before every consideration of national welfare?"
"About a fortnight ago, monsieur," explained Marulitch, "I happened to be here at this hour, and I noticed a young lady copying one of the pictures on the opposite wall. Can you tell me who she was?" "Can you tell me which picture she was copying?" said Poluski. "I am not sure; this one, I think," and Julius pointed to "The Fortune Teller." "Ah! Describe her, monsieur."
Marulitch was startled; but he smiled with a ready self possession that did him credit. "It was in Monsieur Delgrado's company I saw the fair unknown," he admitted; "but this affair does not rest with him. It is genuine, absolutely." "Nevertheless, this Byzantine Saint Peter hangs in Delgratz, I suppose?" "I I think so." "Five thousand francs, you said, and expenses. Not bad.
"Oh, for goodness' sake don't disturb my man! I have so little time and so much to do! Tell me exactly what you want me to sign," and he strode to the door and closed it behind Marulitch. The eyes of the three were on him and not on the harmless looking attendant. During those few seconds they were completely deceived. Prince Michael, finding the path so easy, took the lead.
Leave Alec out of it; but do you think his hog of a father, his easily swayed mother, Stampoff, the short sighted and patriotic, or that scheming Greek and his puppet Marulitch, will gain the ends for which, between them, they have contrived your flight? Do you know Alec so little as to believe that he will leave the field clear to that crew?
"There, smoke, my Constantine," he laughed harshly. "Why should we quarrel? We were idiots. Let us, then, admit it." "Were we?" "Can you deny it? We arranged the first move beautifully. With Theodore out of the way " The Greek turned his head swiftly and looked at the door. Marulitch lowered his voice. "No need to refer to Theodore, you will say? How can one avoid it?
General Stampoff was chewing an end of his long mustaches in impotent wrath, and Beliani merely shrugged. "Of course, my father means that prudence must be allied with boldness," broke in Alec, who had placed his mother in a chair and was now gazing sternly at Marulitch as if he would challenge the unspoken thought. "Exactly, my boy. Well said! One looks before one leaps, that is it!
So Felix did not return to Paris alone, and when he met Count Julius Marulitch next morning in the Louvre he was able to announce that Miss Joan Vernon had accepted the commission to copy the Delgratz Saint Peter and was ready to start for Kosnovia by the night mail. Joan did not telegraph to Alec. She destroyed each of half a dozen attempts, and ended by taking refuge in silence.
There was a tumult of objurgations in the outer passage; but this King in spite of himself paid no heed. "I?" he gasped again, with relaxed jaws. "You, sire," cried Marulitch. "Our line is restored. There will be fighting, of course; but what of that? One audacious week will see you enthroned once more in the Schwarzburg. Ah! Here come Stampoff and Beliani.
"Pray forgive me, your Highness," he said. "If I have to raise such a large sum before seven o'clock I cannot lose an instant." "I shall see you off from the Gare de l'Est," cried Marulitch hurriedly, and the two quitted the room in company. Alec went to pay a brief visit to his mother, and Prince Michael was left alone with the rugged old General. Then, for a few seconds, he became a man.
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