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She allowed him to go in to luncheon alone, wishing to inspect the mysterious casket; but, unluckily, she was interrupted by Hedwig, who rather officiously wanted to dust the room. Not for the first time, Césarine, remembering the wide occult sway claimed by Colonel Von Sendlingen, suspected that the girl was not so much her ally as she wished.
But her weeping and her attitude were thrown away, for she heard his step as regular as a soldier's, leaving the room, crossing the vestibule and taking him out to where the carriage wheels ground the gravel. Von Sendlingen had gone; the Daniels were descending the stairs; even the servants gave no sign of life.
It opens with a combination lock and the word is 'R-e-b-e-c-c-a!" She quickly fingered the studs which opened the lock when properly played upon, and to the joy of Colonel Von Sendlingen, she could lift up the loosened lid. But for a temporary vexation, they saw in the dim light that a kind of steel grating still closed the discovered space.
She extended her arm with an unnatural vigor, and in a voice also unexpectedly strong with malice, cried: "That is he! there you have the slayer of poor Major von Sendlingen!" At that very moment, a shrill, ear-splitting whistle sounded; and the gas-jets all over the hall went out too simultaneously for the act not to be that of a hand at the inlet from the street-main.
The warder had returned but he had left the gate open to close its sliding grate by mechanism worked within his little house. To his amazed eyes, Claudius presented himself with the burden. "Help him! revive him! he is living!" he said. "I will go fetch the police surgeon! it is my officer Major von Sendlingen!"
And she deposited it, as had been agreed between her and Major Von Sendlingen in a vase on the drawing-room mantel-shelf at the marchioness's, where the viscount conducted her before their last parting. It was one of those notes which burn in the hand, and so thought the major, for he took measures, by a communication which he had established, to send it to M. Clemenceau.
Do not keep me lonely too long," was wrung from her in a doleful sob. He could not speak, it was useless, for she knew already everything that he night say. "At last!" ejaculated Von Sendlingen in relief, when all had gone out, as he sprang on the rifle and feverishly fingered it. "This is the rifle of their latest finish. What an odd arrangement!
He is he is well, I may make a clean breast of it he is one you ought to have remembered, the major whom you cudgelled in Munich " "Von Sendlingen!" "Yes, and a colonel I do not know but he is a general now; he has the manner and means of one!" said Hedwig, shuddering. "He knows all of madame's peccadilloes ay, all her crimes " "Crimes! be careful, girl!"
Von Sendlingen shook his head; he was of the new generation and he preserved but a dim remembrance of the noted beauties the stars of the living galaxy decorating the first cycle of the Bonapartist Restoration. "I foresaw it all and I warned her; but she was so perverse! It is my duty to avenge her, and to see that the same blunder is not made by no matter!
She who had fancied herself so powerful was but the lowly, abject subaltern at the beck of a preponderating power of which she understood no more the details than the aim and principle. "There is always a second course," observed Von Sendlingen slowly. "That weak, inexperienced, young Italian, who loves you passionately." "Antonino?"
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