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Updated: June 17, 2025
Red hangings partially draped the dark walls, and over all the light from the stained dome fell in rich colour; while through the talk of the men ran the one weird sound that never ceased about those walls, the whimpering of the wind. Suddenly the door opened, and a young man, small and thin, with a faint down upon his upper lip, entered quickly. 'Unziar has won! he cried.
'What will you, my dear Baron? It is also conclusive. Besides, we shall have gained our point. The fellow's breach of faith is our point. Valerie will be disillusioned; for recollect, I pray you, that Valerie is in love with honour. Unziar had already departed to the Frontier on a secret errand when Rallywood started for the Chancellerie through the slush and fog.
I'd sooner have your honour than your soul. But go, in the name of the Virgin, and since the corridors are closed to the men of my Guard, send the girl for Major Counsellor. She can but die! Unziar saluted and hurried back to the ante-room where Valerie and Rallywood were waiting.
'Come here! I tell you, man, I must see the Duke to-night at once, continued Sagan approaching Unziar. 'What the devil are you afraid of? Unziar stepped down as the Count pulled him confidentially nearer to himself and towards the narrow entry.
'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.
At the last moment, whether horse and man were exhausted or whether a furious tangle of cross-currents caught them, they were swung round and away from the landing-point. It was now evident that Unziar saw Rallywood, for in answer to the latter's signs that he must make for the shallows lower down, Unziar waved some object over his head as if to call attention to it.
I can positively reassure your Excellency on that point. 'Unziar? No! The Englishman Rallywood. 'Rallywood? said the Chancellor in very real surprise, 'what of him? 'Nothing beyond the fact that he has an aptitude for challenging fate. Such men dazzle the eyes, and are consequently apt to be dangerous. Why has he been placed in the Guard?
'Abenfeldt fancies himself as a shot, but he forgot he had to do with Unziar, laughed Captain Adiron. 'Abenfeldt bet that he could shoot more swallows in half an hour before breakfast than any man in Révonde. That was in September, you know, and Unziar took him up with service revolvers and shot fifteen, winning easily.
Unziar listened rather to some far-off tide of thought, as it seemed, than to her words thoughts that flowed in upon him and quenched hope. 'You do not love me; Elmur is beside the mark beside the question of love altogether. Then, Valerie, whom do you love? She gave him a frightened glance, and drew in her breath as one who parries a blow.
After a time she joined a little group of people with whom she stood talking. One of the group presently detached himself and glanced round as if searching for some one. It was Unziar of the Guard. He quickly perceived Rallywood and at once came towards him.
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