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Sir Terence's blade darted in, driven by all that was left of his spent strength, and Samoval, his eyes unseeing, in that moment had fumbled widely and failed to find the other's steel until he felt it sinking through his body, searing him from breast to back. His arms sank to his sides quite nervelessly. He uttered a faint exclamation of astonishment, almost instantly interrupted by a cough.
To that he added a suggestion that, as the conversation appeared to be tiresome to the ladies, it would be better to change its topic. Count Samoval consented, but with the promise, rather threateningly delivered, that it should be continued at another time. That, sir, is all, I think." "Have you any questions for the witness, Captain Tremayne?" inquired the judge-advocate.
If it vexed him to have been caught by a husband notoriously jealous in an attitude not altogether uncompromising, Samoval betrayed no sign of it. With smooth self-possession he hailed O'Moy: "General, you come in time to enable me to take my leave of you. I was on the point of going." "So I perceived," said O'Moy tartly. He had almost said: "So I had hoped."
"No one has seen me come, and no one is likely to see me depart." "You may be sure that no one shall, by God," snapped O'Moy, stung by the sly insolence of the other's assurance. "Shall we get to work, then?" Samoval invited. "If you're set on dying here, I suppose I must be after humouring you, and make the best of it. As soon as you please, then." O'Moy was very fierce.
"If you were to fail Una in this," said Miss Armytage presently, "I mean that unless you yourself give her the assurance that you are ready to do what you can for Dick, should the occasion arise, I am afraid that in her present foolish mood she may still avail herself of Count Samoval. That would be to give Samoval a hold upon her; and I tremble to think what the consequences might be.
"Would your ladyship be good enough to tell the court who were the other members of that party?" "It it was hardly a party, sir," she answered, with her unconquerable insistence upon trifles. "We were just Sir Terence and myself, Miss Armytage, Count Samoval, Colonel Grant, Major Carruthers and Captain Tremayne."
You suggest, speaking in the name of the Council of Regency, that I should suppress all further investigations into the manner in which Count Samoval met his death, so as to save his family the shame and the Council of Regency the discredit which must overtake one and the other if the facts are disclosed as disclosed they would be that Samoval was a traitor and a spy in the pay of the French.
"There were no seconds," she informed him. "No seconds!" he cried in horror. "D' ye mean they just fought a rough and tumble fight?" "I mean they never fought at all. As for this tale of a duel, I ask your lordship: Had Captain Tremayne desired a secret meeting with Count Samoval, would he have chosen this of all places in which to hold it?" "This?" "This.
He was to have left Lisbon at dawn equipped with a passport countersigned by yourself, my dear adjutant." "What's that?" "A passport for Major Vieira of the Portuguese Cacadores. Do you remember it?" "Major Vieira!" Sir Terence frowned thoughtfully. Suddenly he recollected. "But that was countersigned by me at the request of Count Samoval, who represented himself a personal friend of the major's."
At moments he would consider his position as adjutant-general, the enactment against duelling, the irregularity of the meeting arranged, and, consequently, the danger in which he stood on every score; at others he could think of nothing but the unpardonable affront that had been offered him and the venomously insulting manner in which it had been offered, and his rage welled up to blot out every consideration other than that of punishing Samoval.
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