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She got up and went over to the writing table and returned with a packet and the envelope which contained the card. It was not one which prisoners use as a rule; it had the picture of a German town on it and the postmark on the envelope was of a place in Holland. Verisschenzko read it carefully: "I have been too ill to write before I was taken prisoner in the counter attack and was unconscious.
An incident late in November caused her jealousy to burst into flame. She heard that Verisschenzko had returned from Russia and she went to his rooms to see him. The Russian servant who was accustomed to receive her was there waiting for his master who had not yet arrived.
As soon as he recalled himself to Madame Boleski they all went into the restaurant to the Boleski table, just inside the door, by the window on the right. Harietta put John on one side of her and Denzil at the other, and beyond were Verisschenzko and her husband, with Amaryllis between, who thus sat nearly opposite Denzil, with her back to the room.
"I was jealous of the English girl," and she fitted her delicately painted lips to his. "Stanislass wanted to talk over his new scheme for Poland, too, and as you know that always gets on my nerves." But Verisschenzko threw his head back impatiently, while he answered roughly. "I am not in the mood for your chastisement to-night.
You remember he wrote to me some time ago and said he would let us know when he arrived. Oh! would not it be nice to have him at our party let us telephone to him now!" Verisschenzko answered the call himself, he had just come in; he expressed himself as enchanted at the thought of seeing her and yes with pleasure he would come down to Ardayre for the ball.
Verisschenzko had gone to Russia in September, and she was convinced that he loved Amaryllis and that the child was his child. She could not conceive of a spiritual devotion, and something had altered all Stepan's ways.
He and Verisschenzko were passing through the hall of his mother's house, for a talk and a smoke in his sitting-room, after leaving the Carlton. The house was in St. James' Place, a small, old building, the ground floor of which was given over to Denzil whenever he was in London. His mother was absent at Bath, where she spent a long autumn cure.
Verisschenzko paid particular attention to the selection of a quail, and then he answered: "She is of the same type as the family, Denzil, that is, a good skeleton bones in the right place, firm white flesh, colouring as yours well bred, balanced, unawakened as yet. Was she a relation?" "Yes, I believe so a cousin of a generation even before mine.
"Verisschenzko!" laughed Harietta, "why, I hardly know him; he don't amount to a row of pins! He's Stanislass' friend not mine." Then she smoothed back Hans' rather fierce, fair moustache from his lips and kissed him again her ruby ring flashing in a ray of sunlight. "Look! isn't this a lovely jewel, Hans! My old Stannie gave it to me only some days ago it is my new toy see "
And across the lake Amaryllis was saying to Verisschenzko in her soft voice, deep as all the Ardayre voices were deep: "I have brought you here so that you may get the best view of the house. I think, indeed, that it is very beautiful from over the water, do not you?" Verisschenzko remained silent for a moment.
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