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He telegraphed that he would arrive on the morning of the third day, accompanied by his lawyer, a notary and an architect. My four guests departed in haste by the late night train, after extracting a promise from me to join them in Vienna when I was no longer the master of Schloss Rothhoefen. I rather relished the thought of a brief vacation!
"Why, Elsie Hazzard, I have never liked you and George half so much as I like you now. You two and the Smiths stand out like Gibraltars in my esteem. I adore all of you. I sha'n't be happy again until I know that you four and no more are coming back to Schloss Rothhoefen for an indefinite stay. Good Lord, how happy we shall be!" I said it with a great deal of feeling.
"The Rothhoefen family. Haven't they told you that my great-grandmother was a Rothhoefen? No? Well, she was. I belong to the third generation of American-born descendants. Doesn't it simplify matters, knowing this?" "Immensely," said I, in something of a daze. "And so I came here, Mr.
Smart, if it's just the same to you." He spoke with a very slight accent and in a peculiarly attractive manner. There was charm to the man, I was bound to admit. "I know Schloss Rothhoefen very well. It is an old stamping ground of mine." "Indeed," said I, affecting surprise. "I spent a very joyous season here not so many years ago. Hohendahl is a bosom friend."
Where are the originals, Countess?" "They are in my father's villa at Newport," she said. "I intended speaking of this to you before, but I was afraid your pride would be hurt. Of course, I should have spoken if it came to the point where you really considered having those forgeries restored." "Your father bought them?" "Yes. While we were spending our honeymoon here in Schloss Rothhoefen, Mr.
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