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That because she was an inner member and therefore bound to implicit obedience that she was dragged away from her husband, kept apart from him against her will, forced into endeavours to make a fool of Brott even at the cost of her good name.
I shall be engaged for a short time." The secretary withdrew. A servant appeared with a little tray of liqueurs, and in obedience to an impatient gesture from his master, left them upon the table. Brott closed the door firmly. "Prince," he said, resuming his seat, "I wished to speak with you concerning the Countess." Saxe Leinitzer nodded. "All right," he said. "I am listening!"
The Prince dropped his voice a little. He drew Brott on one side. "The Westminster declared that you had left for Windsor by an early train this afternoon, and gives a list of your Cabinet. The Pall Mall, on the other hand, declares that Letheringham will assuredly be sent for to-morrow." Brott shrugged his shoulders.
I have never doubted you for a single moment, Lucille. I could not. But you have been the slave of these people long enough. As you say, your task is over. Its failure was always certain. Brott believes in his destiny, and it will be no slight thing which will keep him from following it. They must give you back to me." "We will go back to America," she said.
"Already some of the Society papers are beginning to chatter about the friendship existing between a Cabinet Minister and a beautiful Hungarian lady of title, etc., etc. The fact of it is that Brott is in deadly earnest. He gives himself away every time. If Lucille has not lost old cleverness she will be able to twist him presently around her little finger."
But it is as clear as day that if you go to the hotel or near it you will at once be recognised, and recognition means arrest. There is a limit beyond which one cannot help a wilful woman. Take your life in your hands and go your own way, or trust in us who are doing our best to save you." "And what of Reginald Brott?" she asked. "Brott?" the Prince repeated impatiently.
"There are bound to be a crop of such reports at a time like this," he remarked. The Prince dropped his voice almost to a whisper. "Brott," he said, "there is something which I have had it in my mind to say to you for the last few days. I am not perhaps a great politician, but, like many outsiders, I see perhaps a good deal of the game. I know fairly well what the feeling is in Vienna and Berlin.
"Not dancing, Mr. Brott?" He shrugged his shoulders. "This sort of thing isn't much in my way," he answered. "I was rather hoping to see the Countess here. I trust that she is not indisposed." She looked at him steadily. "Do you mean," she said, "that you do not know where she is?" "I?" he answered in amazement. "How should I? I have not seen her at all this evening.
"Oh, well," she said, "indirect influences scarcely count, or one might trace the causes of everything which happens back to an absurd extent. If this man was mad he might just as well have shot Brott for anything." Lucille made no answer. She leaned back and closed her eyes. She did not speak again till they reached Dover. They embarked in the drizzling rain.
"Well, we are going to see," she said coolly. "Tell the man to call a hansom." They drove almost in silence through the Square to Pall Mall. Brott leaped out onto the pavement directly the cab pulled up. "I will wait here," Lady Carey said. "I only want to know that Lucille is safe." He disappeared, and she sat forward in the cab drumming idly with her forefingers upon the apron.
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