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Updated: June 12, 2025
As they say in their own idiom, "Possession is nine parts of the law." It remains with us to make the fact. Selpdorf arose. 'Your Excellency will excuse me. It is time to start for the palace. To-day his Highness the Duke holds a review of the Guard. I will if possible sound him on the subject which interests us both. Should that fail, we must consider the alternative scheme.
Looked at from your point of view, I see that I was wrong about that affair with Unziar. But more than all, it proves he is a splendid fellow. Now Unziar's praise from Rallywood's lips displeased Mademoiselle Selpdorf almost more than all which had gone before. 'It is easy to say these things, but' she rose eagerly 'at last that figure is ended.
'I am afraid I must have walked up the hill rather too quickly, he said apologetically, after draining a great goblet of beer. 'However, it is not to be denied that M. Selpdorf begins to take too much upon himself. The entire administration of the State is in his hands, and yet he is not satisfied with that position!
Opposite to him stood Valerie Selpdorf in a dress of some deep velvety shade, which bore, wrought upon its texture here and there, tiny horseshoes embossed in iridescent jewels. A diadem of the same shape crowned her dark hair.
Our State is more elastic in its laws than yours. I cannot foresee what will happen to him in mine! replied Selpdorf smiling. 'There is but one thing that could happen to him under military law in any country. He will be shot! said Elmur pleasantly, then added with a sudden uncontrolled irritation, 'And that too is picturesque. The Chancellor spread out his hands.
'Now I remember, he did mention something about well, well, we have worse enemies in the State than the Chancellor, he wandered on, for he had had an interview during the morning with Selpdorf, and was more than half persuaded to place himself once more unreservedly under that able direction.
She laughed softly, and if a woman could have compassed the ruin of a man by means of love and temptation, Rallywood was lost from that hour, for the rivalry of Valerie Selpdorf added the one incentive of bitter resolve that drives such slight-brained jealous souls to the last limit of reckless endeavour.
Counsellor's return had already become one day overdue, and Selpdorf took advantage of the delay to infuse doubts and troubled surmises into the Duke's wavering mind.
Our friends of the Guard, you will understand, are a little prone to pick up even a careless word on the sword-point. M. Selpdorf paused, and referred once more to the memorandum. 'There has been some small hitch about the pay on the frontier of late? he asked innocently.
'You must go, Mademoiselle. I dare not keep you with me longer. Good-bye, and may God go with you, Valerie! She stopped suddenly and kissed the hand that held hers. 'I too am proud, she whispered, and the door closed upon her. 'Selpdorf is the man of the hour, Counsellor once said to Rallywood, and the Major's sayings had a trick of lingering in the memory.
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