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"The Duchess told me so six months ago. I wondered why you stayed there." She sighed. "I have been a woman of many luxuries," she said, "yet I think the sweetest of them all I experienced at Molchavano. I really think that I did a little good. After his death I sent to Petersburg for nurses and I stayed at the hospital till they came.
"The luxury of doing good can be indulged in here as well as Molchavano," he murmured. They were nearing London. Far away on either side was an amphitheatre of lights. She leaned forward and gazed thoughtfully out of the window. "Douglas," she said, "do you remember our first journey together?" He laughed. "Shall I ever forget it!" "How young you were," she murmured "how eager and how ambitious.
As a matter of fact he had embarked upon a longer journey. From Paris, after hours of indecision, he wired to Emily de Reuss at Molchavano. "May I come to you? For a week he waited restlessly, a week of weary sightseeing and abortive attempts at holiday making. No answer came. On the eighth day he moved on to Vienna and sent another telegram. "I am coming to you. Still no reply.
He waited for a day or two and then moved on to St. Petersburg. Here he took up his quarters at the Hotel de l'Europe, and began to make inquiries about the journey across Siberia. From here he sent another message out over the snowbound wastes. "I leave for Molchavano in fourteen days. He made all the preparations for his journey, but on the twelfth day came word from her.
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