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Perousse looked at him heedfully, and what he saw in that dark brooding face was not of a quieting or satisfactory nature. "You are as deeply involved as I am " he began. "Pardon!" and the Marquis drew himself up with some dignity "I was involved; I am not now. I have also taken care of myself! I may have been misled, but I shall let no one suffer for my errors. I have sent in my resignation."
"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.
He shortly afterwards withdrew, and Carl Perousse, satisfied that he had at any rate taken precautions to make known the existence of a spy in the city, if not to secure his arrest, turned to the crowding business on his hands with a sense of ease and refreshment.
Bernhoff's headquarters were close by, so that he had but to wait barely a quarter of an hour before that personage, the same who had before been summoned to the presence of the King, appeared. To him Perousse handed a slip of paper, on which he had written the words 'Pasquin Leroy. "Do you know that name?" he asked. General Bernhoff looked at it attentively.
I am afraid, Marquis, you are not likely to escape the common doom!" Lutera rose slowly, and prepared to take his departure. "I shall call a Cabinet Council for Monday," he said; "This is Friday. You will find it convenient to attend?" Perousse, rising at the same time, assented smilingly. "You will see things in a better and clearer light by then," he said. "Rely on me!
"No!" replied Leroy frankly, returning the warm pressure; "And rest assured that if I were, I would find means to elude it! I have managed to frighten Carl Perousse, that is all and Jost!" "Jost!" echoed Sergius; "The Colossus of the Press? Surely it would take more than one man to frighten him!" Leroy laughed. "I grant you the Jewish centres of journalism are difficult to shake!
"You seem to be very suddenly afraid of the King!" interrupted Perousse; "Or else strange touches of those catch-word ideals 'Loyalty' and 'Patriotism' are troubling your mind! You speak of my financial deal, is not yours as important? Review the position; it is simply this; for years and years the Ministry have been speculating in office matters, it is no new thing.
"Give him a title!" returned Perousse contemptuously; "These Jew press- men love nothing better!" The Marquis smiled somewhat sardonically. "Jost, with a patent of nobility would cut rather an extraordinary figure!" he said; "Still he would probably make good use of it, especially if he were to start a newspaper in London! They would accept him as a great man there!"
He had called over and over again on Carl Perousse, hoping to obtain a few minutes' conversation with him, but had been denied an interview.
He had been defeated of late years in one or two important measures; and his colleague, Carl Perousse, had by gradual degrees succeeded in worming himself into such close connection with the rest of the members of the Cabinet, that he, Lutera, felt himself being edged out, not only from political 'deals, but from the profits appertaining thereto.
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