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He knocked the ash from his cigar with his little finger, and glanced at Friedrich, who was non-committal. "Yes," was all he said. "I suppose they've never found any trace of the she-devil, have they?" Friedrich sat up with a jerk and stared at von Sternburg. "She-devil? What she-devil?" "What she-devil? Why, the Baroness, of course. Max's wife." "No trace of Hilda? She-devil?
He was the oldest son of the owner of the Sternburg. This young man had contrived to win the maiden's heart, and one day, while Gerda presided as queen of love and beauty at a tournament held in the courtyard of Castle Rheinstein, Helmbrecht made an avowal of his love.
Even in the time of my predecessor, Speck von Sternburg, the German Embassy was on such occasions charged with softness and an excessive desire to become adapted to American ways; and this remained the case during my tenure of office. Our Press in general, moreover, never revealed a sufficient amount of interest or understanding in regard to American affairs.
I do not love him, but he is the only man I ever met whose every thought I honor." "Yet you were willing to sacrifice him!" "I needed him." Von Sternburg looked at her in abhorrence. "I suppose you don't know what an abomination of selfishness you are." She did not seem to hear him, but added, bitterly, "Now you have come, my hope is gone." Von Sternburg looked across the room.
It is my dear Friedrich!" and "dear Friedrich" and a somewhat stout young man a few years younger than he flung themselves into each other's arms, and kissed both cheeks after the manner of their race, while the clerk turned to his safe to conceal the grin that inwreathed his countenance. "Von Sternburg! What in the world brought you here?" "Baedeker.
He disregarded the old traditional etiquette, according to which the President was not allowed to visit the Ambassadors or any private houses in Washington. The friendly relations that existed between Mr. Roosevelt and Baron Speck von Sternburg are well known. When in the year 1908, after this gentleman's decease, I assumed his post at Washington, Mr.
When I did there was a reason for his not writing at once." "Who is he?" "Stapfer." "I knew it!" Von Sternburg slapped his knee. "Stapfer was crazy over her, and she had some reason for your not knowing." "She! Are you talking about my sister-in-law?" "Oh, you needn't put on any dignity over her. She isn't worth it, though I suppose you don't know that as well as you will in a few minutes."
Friedrich, whose gaze had been searching keenly first one face and then the other, gave a nod, and without replying to his friend, introduced him to Mrs. Carroll and Sydney. Von Sternburg bent over each hand and then approached Hilda. She was regaining her control, though she trembled so violently as to justify in his precaution Wendell, who had sprung to her, fearing that she would fall.
Out of the church-yard, side by side, with bowed heads, walked Bud Yarebrough and Friedrich von Rittenheim, the man whose fragile honor had been preserved by Bob's act, and the man whose life he had given his own to save. Carl von Sternburg Mrs. Morgan and the Doctor had insisted upon giving to von Rittenheim Gray Eagle and Bob's buggy.
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