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He paused as if to take breath: then "Three!" he exclaimed, in the tone of a man pronouncing a death- sentence; and the handkerchief fell. There were two reports in quick succession. Varhely stood erect in his position; Menko's ball had cut a branch above his head, and the green leaves fell fluttering to the ground. Michel staggered back, his hand pressed to his left side.
Marsa should be the sole witness of the duel, and the blood of the Prince or of Menko should spatter her face a crimson stain upon her pale cheek should be her punishment. Early in the evening Andras left the hotel, after slipping into the pocket of his overcoat a pair of loaded pistols: one of them he would cast at Menko's feet. It was not assassination he wished, but justice.
It was this constant hope that the day would come when justice would be meted out to Menko's treachery. The letters proved conclusively that Menko had been Marsa's lover; but they proved, at the same time, that Michel had taken advantage of her innocence and ignorance, and lied outrageously in representing himself as free, when he was already bound to another woman.
Rapidly, and as if impelled, despite herself, Marsa caught the wrist of her husband in her icy hand, and, terrified, supplicating, she cried, in a wild, broker voice: "No, no, I implore you! No! Do not read it! Do not read it!" He contemplated her coldly, and, forcing himself to be calm, asked: "What does this parcel of Michel Menko's contain?" "I do not know," gasped Marsa. "But do not read it!
It was this constant hope that the day would come when justice would be meted out to Menko's treachery. The letters proved conclusively that Menko had been Marsa's lover; but they proved, at the same time, that Michel had taken advantage of her innocence and ignorance, and lied outrageously in representing himself as free, when he was already bound to another woman.
Marsa answered simply with these words: "I will never bear the name of a man I despise." The wound made in her heart by Menko's lie was incurable; the Tzigana would never forgive.
This moment of happiness and solitude after all the noise and excitement was indeed a blessed one! Andras had placed upon the piano of the salon Michel Menko's package, and, seated upon the divan, he held both Marsa's hands in his, as she stood before him. "My best wishes, Princess!" he said. "Princess! Princess Zilah! That name never sounded so sweet in my ears before! My wife!
Marsa might have known of all this if she had, for a moment, doubted Menko's word. But how was she to suspect that the young Count was capable of a lie or of concealing such a secret?
Angelo Valla you know him Manin's former minister " "Yes, I know," said Count Josef, with his enigmatical smile. "Valla told me of Menko's arrest. I knew that Menko had left Paris, and I was very anxious to find where he had gone. Valla learned, at the Italian embassy in Paris, of the affair of this Labanoff and of the real or apparent complicity of Michel Menko; and he told me about it.
He was left free to act as he pleased; his wife would willingly give up a part of her dowry to regain her independence. It was only just, she said insolently, that, having been mistaken as to the tastes of the man she had married for reasons of convenience rather than of inclination, she should pay for her stupidity. Pay! The word made the blood mount to Menko's face.
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