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'Come! was Unziar's reply. She laid her hand within his arm and passed silently through the reception rooms beside him. She felt that the time had come when Unziar could no more be put off by the little wiles and evasions a woman employs who has nothing to give to the man who loves her but a definite answer.
Hurrying up to the block-house, Rallywood sent off some troopers to Unziar's assistance; then with some difficulty got his prisoner, who was stiff and dizzy, on his feet and supported him to the room where Madame de Sagan and Valerie had rested on the night of the snow-storm. Rallywood did all that could be done for Counsellor, then he sat down at the narrow table to face his position.
In that same instant too the vague sweet outlook faded from his mind. Then a hand was laid upon his shoulder and he saw another figure mirrored beside his own against the dark background of the night. There was a suggestion of reluctance in Unziar's movements. 'I regret, Captain Rallywood, that I have been ordered to place you in arrest.
He was seated at a writing-table, and he glanced carelessly over them as Sagan went on. 'Under your approval those papers include Lieutenant Unziar's appointment as captain, vice Colendorp 'Deceased, put in the Duke with a sharp significance. Sagan frowned. Gustave had a curious alertness about him to-night. 'Yes, poor fellow! We can ill spare him, he said.
Unziar's generosity rose to the occasion. 'Our gain in the Guard is your loss in the Cavalry, Colonel Jenard, he said handsomely. Jenard acknowledged the implied compliment, and went off leaving the three Guardsmen together. 'We shall have to swallow the Englishman after all, said Colendorp blackly. 'How came you to miss him, Unziar? Unziar raised his eyebrows. 'Who can tell?
'I should be eternally grateful if only I were of the cavalry! A sudden intense expression, like a spasm of hope or happiness, crossed Unziar's pale face in a flash. A word sprang almost involuntarily from his lips. 'The Guard But the girl cut him remorselessly short. 'I do not idealise either the Guard' she paused, then went on without taking her eyes from Elmur's face 'or the cavalry.
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