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Updated: September 8, 2025
"Mercy, gracious emperor, mercy for Podstadsky and Szekuly!" reiterated the petitioners. "You ask for mercy which wounds justice, and I repeat that I cannot grant the one without the other. Count Podstadsky, through his frauds, has ruined thousands of my subjects; Baron von Szekuly has stolen sixty thousand florins, and both these men have disgraced their births and titles."
With a deep sigh of relief, she threw herself upon the divan, and, closing her eyes, gave herself up to rosy dreams. She had not lain long, before the door opened and a valet announced "Colonel Szekuly." "I cannot receive him," exclaimed she, without rising.
"I will not breathe." said she, with a smile so bewitching, that Szekuly averted his eyes, for it maddened him. "You know," said he, and the old man's voice faltered as he spoke, "that the director of police is my friend. I had invited him to dine with me. He came but half an hour ago to excuse himself because of an arrest of some importance. Do you guess whose arrest?"
"Allow Szekuly to be tried by a military court, sire. They at least would shield him from dishonor, for they would sentence him to death." "He has committed a vulgar crime and he shall be punished according to the burghers' code. That code ignores capital punishment." "But its punishments are more fearful than death, sire. A man is thrice dead who has lost liberty, honor, and name.
Moreover, he was the adorer of the most admired woman in Vienna, the lovely Countess Baillou. She, too, had disappeared. Where could they be? Was it accident, or had she responded to his love, and left a world of worshippers, to live for him alone? Finally the mystery was solved. A few days after the arrest of Podstadsky, Szekuly also had been arrested.
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