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Updated: May 28, 2025
"He is a wise man who wields the knife himself, Monsieur Chauvenet. In the taking of poor Count von Stroebel's life so deftly and secretly, you prove my philosophy. It was a clever job, Monsieur!" Chauvenet's gloved fingers caught at his mustache. "That is almost insulting, Monsieur Armitage. A distinguished statesman is killed therefore I must have murdered him.
Then they fell to talking about individuals, chiefly men in the public eye; and as the Austro-Hungarian embassy was in mourning and unrepresented at the table, the new Emperor-king was discussed with considerable frankness. "He has not old Stroebel's right hand to hold him up," remarked a young German officer. "Thereby hangs a dark tale," remarked Claiborne.
Count von Stroebel's bluster was merely a cloak to hide his confusion a cloak, it may be said, to which he did not often resort; but in this case he watched Armitage warily.
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