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Updated: June 3, 2025
I believe the face was practically shot away, was it not? I have taken the precaution to inform myself upon every point, from the authorities at Monte Carlo, but I wish for your final testimony." "Ladislaus Shulski is dead," she said quietly, in a tone as though it gave her pleasure to say it.
And, oh, forgive me for saying so, but the Countess Shulski does not look as if she loved Tristram much." Francis Markrute did not speak for an instant, then he turned and gazed straight into her eyes gravely, as he said: "Believe me, I would not allow your cousin to marry my niece if I were not truly convinced that it will be for the eventual great happiness of them both.
"I meant to give you this ring. If you don't like sapphires it can be changed. Please wear it, and believe me to be "Yours, "Tancred." He put the note with the little ring-case, inclosed both in a large envelope, and then he rang the bell. "Send this up to the Countess Shulski," he said to the footman who presently came. "And is my motor at the door?" It was, so he descended the stairs.
Anyway, it felt as if it were the moon, when I drew aside the blind; and it struck my heart with a cold foreboding, as he said such things, fights, happened now sometimes, and he was at Monte Carlo when Count Shulski was shot; and, though it was hushed up by the authorities and no one hardly heard of it much, still it made a stir.
"Then it is well, and we can come to the point," he went on. "I am sorry I have had to be away, since your arrival, until yesterday. I trust my servants have made you comfortable?" "Quite comfortable," she answered coldly. "Good: now for what I want to know. You have no doubt in your mind that your husband, Count Ladislaus Shulski, is dead? There is no possible mistake in his identity?
And with this she was obliged to rest content. But all the way back in the train she saw the picture of the Italian parterre at Wrayth with the statue of Pan, in the center of the star, playing his pipes. The second wedding day of Zara Shulski dawned with a glorious sun. One of those autumn mornings that seem like a return to the spring so fresh and pure the air.
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