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"What!" exclaimed Oscarovitch, flushing in spite of his effort to keep the blood back from his face. "You have solved the problem, and won't make use of the greatest invention of all the ages! Surely, Professor, that is a little quixotic, is it not?" "Who am I that I should bring a curse upon humanity, Prince?" he answered gravely. "Do you not kill each other fast enough now?
The other came alongside, and the body of Prince Zastrow was transferred to it, and Oscarovitch followed it. Four men from the yacht's boat jumped on board the destroyer and hauled hers up. The other was backed to the ladder and they came on board.
On the evening of the fourth day they were just sitting down to their table by one of the windows overlooking the Oestergade when Nitocris happened to look up towards the door through which the diners were trickling in an irregular stream of well-dressed men and women. For a moment her eyes became fixed. Then she bent her head over the table, and said: "Dad, there is Prince Oscarovitch.
"That alleged express from Hamburg was nothing to this: and yet how steadily she moves in spite of the speed. I should have thought that it would have nearly shaken us to jelly." "That is the turbines, dear," said her father, who was already wondering whether Oscarovitch was doing this just to show how hopeless any pursuit of such a vessel would be.
When the Professor went to his own sitting-room he found his daughter waiting to say good-night. "Niti," he said, as he closed the door, "I don't want to seem inquisitive, but, frankly, I was astounded at the gracious way in which you treated that scoundrel Oscarovitch." "Dad," she replied, with apparent irrelevance, "do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?" "Of course not!
A silent salute passed between Oscarovitch and the lieutenant, and a few minutes later the yacht's boat was hoisted to the davits, and the white shape was growing smaller and dimmer amidst the light haze that lay on the water shimmering under the slanting rays of the rising sun. Morning grew into noon, noon faded into evening, and evening darkened into night.
Oscarovitch was doing his utmost to persuade his guest to revoke his decision as to the creation of the aerial warships. Franklin Marmion's simple announcement, which he never thought for a moment of disbelieving, had filled his mind with new ideas, which were rapidly taking the shape of gorgeous dreams of an empire such as mortal man had never ruled over before.
His coming had been a curious coincidence, possibly a consequence of obscure causes; but, for some reason or other, he felt himself beginning to look with a more favourable eye on Commander Mark Merrill perhaps because he was the impersonation of uncompromising hostility to everything that Oscarovitch represented.
You have obeyed my orders; that is all. Is it not enough for you?" "Yes, Highness but who or what was that man? Was he really a man?" "Are you mad, Derevskin?" "No, Highness, I hope not: but did you hear or, rather, did you not hear?" "What, you fool?" "He it the body it made no splash when it touched the water!" The stammered words struck Oscarovitch like so many puffs of frozen air.
Although not in a large way of business, his affairs are understood to have been in a prosperous condition. What makes the tragedy all the more strange is the fact that suicide is almost unknown among persons of the Jewish faith." Oscarovitch felt a little shiver run down his back as he read the commonplace lines.
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