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"My friend," Von Ragastein said at last, speaking with the air of a man who has spent much time in deliberation, "you speak to me of Germany, of my homeland. Perhaps you have guessed that it is not duty alone which has brought me here to these wild places. I, too, left behind me a tragedy."
I have arranged for an escort to see them to town. Tell the colonel I'll be over later in the day." The Princess rose from the chair into which she had subsided a few moments before. Dominey turned towards her. "Princess," he said, "there can be little conversation between us. Yet I shall ask you to remember this. Von Ragastein planned my death in cold blood.
"Siggy Devinter, Baron Von Ragastein, out here, slaving for God knows what, drilling niggers to fight God knows whom, a political machine, I suppose, future Governor-General of German Africa, eh? You were always proud of your country, Devinter." "My country is a country to be proud of," was the solemn reply. "Well, you're in earnest, anyhow," Dominey continued, "in earnest about something.
"Von Ragastein and I exchanged the most intimate confidences in his camp," Dominey said, "as Doctor Schmidt there knows. I told him my history, and he told me his. The letters and papers I took from him." Schmidt had covered his face with his hands for a moment. His shoulders were heaving. "My beloved chief!" he sobbed. "My dear devoted master! Killed by that drunken Englishman!"
The boys are being loaded, and a runner has gone on to Wadihuan for ponies to be prepared." "They know that I wish to start at dawn?" "All will be prepared, Excellency." Von Ragastein laid his hand upon the doctor's shoulder. "Come outside, Schmidt," he said. "I have something to tell you of my plans."
He has dared to sit in his presence as the Baron Von Ragastein!" The young man in flannels glanced across at Dominey and smiled. "I say, you two don't mean to be funny but you are," he declared.
"I have been received with favour in the very loftiest circles," Seaman continued. "You and I both stand high in the list of those to whom great rewards shall come. His Majesty approves altogether of your reluctance to avail yourself of his permission to wed the Princess Eiderstrom. 'Von Ragastein has decided well, he declared. 'These are not the days for marriage or giving in marriage.
"I have convinced myself," the Prince said emphatically, "that there is a genuine and solid desire for peace with Germany existing in Downing Street. In every argument I have had, in every concession I have asked for, I have been met with a sincere desire to foster the growing friendship between our countries. I am proud of my work here, Von Ragastein.
They'll mean malaria for me unless I have spirits." "I have something better than either," Von Ragastein replied. "You shall give me your opinion of this." The orderly who stood behind his master's chair, received a whispered order, disappeared into the commissariat hut and came back presently with a bottle at the sight of which the Englishman gasped. "Napoleon!" he exclaimed.
One might have gathered that, turning aside from great matters, he had been devoting himself entirely to the scheme in which Dominey was concerned. "Von Ragastein," he said at last, "I have sent for you to have a few words concerning your habitation in England. I wish you to receive your impressions of your mission from my own lips." "Your Majesty does me great honour," Dominey murmured.
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