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"Colonel Quinnox, will you fetch Baldos to the verandah at once?" asked Lorry, his quick American perception telling him that immediate action was necessary. "It is cooler out there." He gave Beverly a look of inquiry. She flushed painfully, guiltily, and he was troubled in consequence. "As a mere subject, I demand the arrest of this man," Marlanx was saying excitedly.
He was revolving a selfish, cowardly capitulation to love and injustice, when a sharp tap was heard at the door. Leaping to his feet he whispered: "Quinnox! He has come for me. Now to get out of your room without being seen!" The Princess Yetive ran to him, and, placing her hands on his shoulders, cried with the fierceness of despair: "You will go back to the monastery? You will leave Graustark?
Even the Duke of Mizrox could give no assurance that his country would remain neutral. Colonel Quinnox came to the castle in haste and perturbation. It was he who propounded the question that Yetive and Beverly were expecting: "Where is Baldos?" Of course, the flight of the suspected guard was soon a matter of certainty.
Count Quinnox looked to Truxton King for inspiration and that gentleman favoured him with a singularly dis-spiriting nod of the head. The old Graustarkian cleared his throat and rather stiffly announced that he would receive Mr. Blithers if he would call on him at the Ritz that afternoon. "What!" exclaimed both agents, half-starting from their chairs in amazement. The Count stared hard at them.
"Her crime goes up in smoke," muttered Dangloss, sententiously. "The Princess commits no crime," retorted Quinnox, angrily, "when she trusts four honest men." "Where is she?" whispered the prisoner, with thrumming ears. "Where all good women should be at nine o'clock in bed," replied Dangloss, shortly. "But will you obey her command?" "So she commands me to escape!" said Lorry, smiling.
He beat me, and I was virtually his prisoner when we appeared before the tribunal." "It's no wonder she loved him and married him." "He deserved the best that life could give, Miss Calhoun." "You had better not call me Miss Calhoun, Colonel Quinnox," said she, looking back apprehensively. "I am a highness once in a while, don't you know?" "I implore your highness's pardon!" said he gaily.
"Your Highness," said Quinnox, with a glance at his fellow-officers, "you may rely upon it, Count Marlanx will never reach you until he has slain every man in the Royal Guard." "And in the army our poor little army," added General Braze. "Thank you," said the Prince. "You needn't have told me. I knew it."
All Graustark blindly trusted and adored her; to undeceive them would be to administer a shock from which they could never recover. Her heart was bursting with love for Lorry; her mind was overflowing with tender thoughts that could not be sent to him, much as she trusted to the honor of Quinnox, her messenger.
Harry Anguish staggered but recovered himself instantly, and turned his eyes toward Gabriel. That worthy's legs trembled and his jaw dropped. "I have the prisoner, your Highness," said Quinnox, in hoarse, discordant tones. He stood before the throne with his captive, but dared not look his mistress in the face.
Vagabond though he was, he had conquered where princes had failed. Her better judgment told her that she could be nothing to this debonair knight of the road, yet her heart stubbornly resisted all the arguments that her reason put forth. Colonel Quinnox was pleasant, but he could give Beverly no promise of leniency in regard to Baldos.
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