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She waited. I waited also, although I had no great patience with him. Suddenly he fell on his knee, but he did not venture to take her hand. Of her own accord she came and stretched it out to him, saying sadly: "Ah, that by forgiving I could win forgiveness!" Rischenheim caught at her hand and kissed it. "It was not I," I heard him mutter. "Rupert set me on, and I couldn't stand out against him."
The whole trick flashed on Rudolf, and he sprang, flinging his long arms round Rupert. But Rupert had the revolver in his hand. In all likelihood the two neither heard nor heeded, though it seemed to me that the creaks and groans of the old stairs were loud enough to wake the dead. Hard behind us came Rischenheim, and hot on his heels a score of fellows, pushing and shouldering and trampling.
Anton von Strofzin did not reappear. Rischenheim edged himself inside the doorway and stood on the threshold of the hall. There he heard voices proceeding from the sitting-room on the left. He recognized the queen's, my wife's, and Anton's. Then came the butler's, saying, "I will inform the count of your Majesty's wishes."
"Fritz, old friend," said he, "there's an answer from Sapt. I'll lay the telegraph offices were stirred in Zenda as well as James stirred them here in Wintenberg! And what do you think? Rischenheim asked for an audience before he left Strelsau." I raised myself on my elbow in the bed. "You understand?" he went on. "He left on Monday. To-day's Wednesday.
I think it was at this moment that the thought of Rischenheim came again into my head, and I found myself wondering why he clung to the hopeless idea of compassing Rupert's return and what business had taken him from Strelsau. But I made little of the matter, and, drowsy from a broken night's rest, soon fell into a doze. I was alone in the carriage and could sleep without fear or danger.
I ceased my walk, for the pavement was too crowded, and hung on the outskirts of the throng. As I loitered there, a cigar in my mouth, I felt a hand on my shoulder. Turning round, I saw the lieutenant. He was in uniform. By his side was Rischenheim. "You're here too, are you?" said I. "Well, nothing seems to be happening, does it?" For No. 19 showed no sign of life.
Anton heard me with a judicial wrinkle on his smooth brow. "That's all very well," said he, "and I dare say you're bound to say so. All I know is that Rischenheim dropped a hint to Colonel Markel a day or two ago." "Rischenheim believes what he hopes," said I. "And where's he gone?" cried Anton, exultantly. "Why has he suddenly left Strelsau?
But he knew as well as I that Rischenheim was completely in Rupert's hands, and he could not fail to guess that something had gone wrong at Wintenberg, and that Rischenheim came to tell the king some news that the king must not hear.
"The count will keep his word, given to me." Rischenheim looked at her and seemed about to address her, but then he turned to me, and said in a low tone: "By Heaven, I will, Tarlenheim. I'll serve her in everything " "My lord," said she most graciously, and yet very sadly, "you lighten the burden on me no less by your help than because I no longer feel your honor stained through me.
Can't you take me anywhere to talk?" "What the deuce are you here at all for?" "To meet Rischenheim." "To meet ?" "Yes. Sapt, he's got a copy of the queen's letter." Sapt twirled his moustache. "I've always said as much," he remarked in tones of satisfaction. He need not have said it; he would have been more than human not to think it. "Where can you take me to?" asked Rudolf impatiently.
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