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Rallywood had been stationed at Kofn Ford when first Isolde made his acquaintance.
There was a horrible energy, a furious relentlessness about his very attitude and ringing in his voice that drove every word of his accusation into and through his hearers. As president he put questions to the prisoner, who answered them unmoved. Rallywood fronted them calm and soldierlike, the picture of a gallant despair. He felt as though he stood clear of his life.
'Captain Rallywood, will you tell Major Counsellor from me, she began at once, in a low, hurried voice, 'that, in spite of what he has heard of me, he must still believe Maäsau is the dearest thing on earth to me. Tell him that, if needful, I am ready to prove it with my life! He may make quite sure I meant all I said to him yesterday. Rallywood stood silent.
The fact that Germany had lately accredited a new representative, a certain Baron von Elmur, to the Court of Maäsau, an able man whose reputation rested mainly on the successful performance of missions of a delicate nature, added to the tension of the moment. 'So you say they are getting up steam in Maäsau? said Rallywood again.
His earthly life was done, and he looked out into the dim beyond fearlessly. His eyes were set and sad, for he should see her face and hear Valerie's voice no more, but he would be waiting in that somewhere for her. A man in the supremer hours often turns again to the faiths of his childhood; so now Rallywood, at the summit of his life, found himself given back all those lost dreams.
It was yet early in the afternoon, and an hour when the Duke sometimes drove out. As Rallywood trotted along the embankment by the river, he saw the outriders of the Duke's carriage coming towards him. Gustave of Maäsau happened to be alone, and, to indulge the humour of the moment, he beckoned the young man to the side of the carriage and spoke a few words to him.
And I have never excelled in dodging. 'Ah just what the Chancellor thinks. He says he has an immense admiration for you as the most honest diplomatist in Europe. 'He put himself to the trouble of mentioning that fact to you, did he? Then I shall take the precaution of insuring my life. Anything might happen to a man of whom he has so villainous an opinion. Rallywood was arranging his gaiters.
While these things passed through her thoughts her eyes were still fixed upon the blue plume of smoke that rose and melted over Kofn Ford, for its position indicated the whereabouts of the block-house used by the Frontier Patrol, and there Rallywood had lived during the early part of his acquaintance with Isolde.
Rallywood saw a slight woman, tall and exquisitely fair, who carried her small head with its gleaming coronet royally. Her skin and her soft flushed cheeks had the pure, evanescent quality of a child's complexion. Moreover, her chief charm was perhaps her air of child-like innocence.
The importance of the duty which is entrusted to you cannot be too highly estimated. This then was what the Duke meant. Rallywood was to place himself unreservedly at the disposal of M. Selpdorf. Yet the preamble troubled him. It seemed to be assumed that he might be tempted to evade his orders. 'I am to start at once, your Excellency?
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