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He bent above Trusia's extended hand as serenely as though they were both figuring in a court function and not a congress of death. "Living nearer Schallberg," he explained, "I saw how matters stood, and immediately packed off the women folk to the boundaries. I then came here to offer my services, my sword, if necessary." "Courageous heart," applauded Trusia, touched by the old fellow's loyalty.
Leaning her elbow on the cloth, the girl turned her head to learn the cause of the hilarity. Carter, thankful for the opportunity, employed the pause in studying Trusia. The Duchess's eyes were sparkling like some lustrous jet. The deep flush of the jacqueminot burned in her cheeks as she smilingly regarded Natalie, the heroine of the jest.
Its mother, with anxious, peasant face, was bending over its ailing form, while the large, whole-souled regard which Trusia bent upon the tiny form made a picture of a modern Madonna. Then, the air whispered its tidings to her soul. She glanced up and saw Carter standing in the passageway.
Trusia now turned to Carter, and with fine free friendliness asked him of his journey and if it had seemed long. "Yes, it did," he admitted, but he did not say it was because it took him from her. "Now, isn't that odd," she laughed, "a journey home seems always the longest to me; no train can get me there quickly enough," she added with an extra note of tender patriotism.
Somewhere in the crowd a woman's voice was heard to cry: "Saint Trusia; angel!" Ten thousand voices took up the acclaim. She shook her head reprovingly as she, too, joined the group about His Majesty. After Carter and the others stepped upon the platform, the former looked about him for his whilom chauffeur.
A fortune in bills presumably for bribes, a road map of our country, and the name of 'Zulka' written across the capital, Schallberg." At the reference to Zulka's name used in connection with the alleged plot, Trusia gave a slight start and a reproachful look clouded her eyes. Frankly, fearlessly, he met her glance as well as the steel-like glint from Sobieska.
Without this submission on her part we could count on no united Krovitch. Our country worships her and will follow no king who will not seat her upon his throne. Get that angel face out of your heart. Deafen your ears to her voice before, like me, you try too late. Oh, I know, I saw," he hastened on as Carter would have stopped him, "love makes all eyes keen. You love Trusia."
The rest Her Highness can tell you," and the man wiped the perspiration from his brow. "We found him skulking in the forest; not twenty minutes ago," supplemented Trusia. "His actions were so mysterious and his speech so reprehensible that we brought him here." Carter, regarding the whole affair as a delusion a bubble soon broken, brought the matter to an issue.
"Once gain the shelter of the woods, however, and we can hide by day and travel at night until we reach the frontier." "How many have we in the garrison?" inquired Trusia, who had instinctively placed herself at Carter's side. "Half a platoon of cavalry," replied Sobieska gravely, thinking of the meagreness of their force for the occasion. "One more," said Muhlen-Sarkey entering the room.
"I will not apologize for our lodgings," said Sobieska, as he gave a cheap East Side locality to the driver as their destination. "Thousands of my countrymen have no better." As the cab rattled along, he gave the details of their varied vicissitudes and the determined faith of Trusia in Carter, culminating in her insistence that they come to New York to find him.
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