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Updated: June 17, 2025
He shook hands gravely with the young man, then detaching a star of gun-metal from his breast, he awkwardly attempted to fasten it to the lapel of Rallywood's coat. 'I see you have not the star of the Guard. May I give you mine? Unziar, see to this; I cannot attach it. 'No, Colonel Wallenloup; that should rather be my duty, said the Countess Sagan, who happened to be standing by.
Rallywood stood in his place for some thirty seconds, while there was a sound of splintering glass as the bullet rushed out into the darkness above the river; then he advanced smiling. 'It seems, he said,'that I was right. Unziar stared at him.
'I request an audience of His Highness, Lieutenant Unziar, he said. 'Certainly, my lord, if you will give me the password of the night, replied Unziar. Sagan's answer was the countersign he had given to his own following in the Castle. Unziar shook his head. 'You cannot pass, my lord. 'What not see my guest and cousin in my own house?
Unziar included Rallywood with the two officers beside him in this invitation, by a slight inclination of the head. The three men accepted, but there was a little stiffening in the attitude of each, for Rallywood had friends here who were resolved, if only for the honour of the Frontier Corps, to see their late comrade through the coming trouble.
But it's Abenfeldt, of course. The Colonel as good as promised him last year. 'Ever heard of Lieutenant Rallywood of the frontier? demanded Colendorp in his slow way. 'Yes, I do happen to know him. Unziar looked round in some surprise.
Its forlornness had been lost upon Unziar, who had drawn but one merciless conclusion from the little scene. Close on the heels of these reflections a vivid recollection rose before Rallywood's mind of the first night he had met her.
Then, rising from his chair, he took the young man's arm, and leaning heavily upon it, moved towards the card-room, meeting Unziar with Mdlle. Selpdorf on the way. 'Hey, Mademoiselle Valerie, he stopped abruptly, 'would you teach my Guards treason? 'To teach your Highness's Guards treason is impossible! replied Valerie, with a slight lifting of her proud head.
Valerie looked up and smiled miserably. 'Au revoir, she repeated faintly. With that the door closed behind her as Sagan led her away to his wife, and Elmur, affecting not to see the two men who were passing, strolled on singing a love-song under his breath. Unziar paused, then drew Rallywood with him into the centre of the wide lighted passage, where they could speak with more freedom.
Courtesy demanded that Rallywood and his friends should fall in with this proposal, and Rallywood, replying to Adiron, added: 'You have heard exactly what passed between Lieutenant Unziar and myself, and I am sure I cannot do better than leave the matter in your hands in conjunction with my friend, Colonel Jenard.
'Then I am afraid I must beg of you to do me the great favour of rearranging the affair, replied Rallywood; 'for if I should be unfortunate enough to kill Lieutenant Unziar, or even to disable him, the question at issue between us must remain undecided for at the best an indefinite time, and possibly for ever.
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