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Updated: June 27, 2025
This day month we will meet here again, and our new comrades will then report what progress they have made in the matter of Carl Perousse." "Tell me," said Leroy, approaching her, "What would you do, Madame, if you had determined, on proving the corruption and falsehood of this at present highly-honoured servant of the State?"
At present Jost supports Perousse, and calls him the greatest statesman living; but if Perousse were once proved a fraud, Jost would pen a sublimely- conscientious leading article, beginning in this strain; We are now at liberty to confess that we always had our doubts of M. Perousse!" A murmur of angry laughter went round the board.
They manage these sort of things capitally there!" "By God!" said Jost; "I could kill you!" "What for?" demanded Perousse; "Because you think I am going to be proved a political fraud? Wait and see! If the King denounces me, I am prepared to denounce the King!" Jost stared, then laughed aloud. "Denounce the King! You are bold! But you make up your sum with the wrong numerals this time!
As Pasquin Leroy, I discovered all the shameful speculations with the public money, carried on by Carl Perousse, and found that so far, at any rate, your accusations against him were founded in fact. At the first threatening suspicion of possible condemnation the Marquis de Lutera resigned, thus evidencing his guilty participation in the intended plunder.
If before the end of the month Carl Perousse is not ejected with contempt from office, I will ask my death at your hands! A meeting will be convened next week at the People's Assembly Rooms where we shall make arrangements to approach the King. If the King refuses to receive us, we shall find means to make him do so! He shall hear us!
"Then someone must have passed off an imitation signet on David Jost," continued Perousse meditatively. "What name did the spy give?" "Pasquin Leroy." Carl Perousse opened a small memorandum book, and carefully wrote the name down within it.
One was Sergius Thord, the other Lotys. Carl Perousse, seized with an access of 'nerves' within the cushioned luxury of his own private room in the recesses of the Government buildings, from whence he had watched the demonstration, peered from one of the windows, and saw one half of the huge mob melt swiftly away under the command of a tall, majestic- looking creature, whose massive form and leonine head appeared Ajax- like above the throng; and he watched the other half turn round in brisk order, like a well-drilled army, and march off, singing loudly and lustily, headed by a woman carried shoulder-high before them, whose white robes gleamed like a flag of truce in the glare of the torches blazing around her; and to his utter amazement, fear and disgust, he heard the very soldiers shouting her name: "Lotys!
With this, he turned on his heel, and left his colleague to a space of very disagreeable meditation. For the first time in his bold and unscrupulous career, Perousse found himself in an awkward position. If it were indeed true that Jost and Lutera had thrown up the game, especially Jost, then he, Perousse, was lost. He had made of Jost, not only a tool, but a confidant.
"You must explain to me why you consider Perousse a traitor, and how you think it best his treachery should be proved. For, remember, I am a stranger to this part of the country, and my accidental resemblance to the King does not make me his subject!" "True!" said Paul Zouche, his eyes were feverishly bright and his cheeks flushed "To be personally like a liar does not oblige one to tell lies!
"To amalgamate all the steel industries into one international Union, and get as many shares myself in the combine is not at all an unwise project," went on Perousse, "For if our country is not to fight, other countries will; and they will require guns and swords and all such accoutrements of war. Why should we not satisfy the demand and pocket the cash?" Still the Marquis looked at him steadily.
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