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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Why, how would you know them if you saw them?" quoth Sylvia, seeking to cover what might be an indiscretion. "Because they bore the name: 'Lines of Torres Vedras. I remember." "And this unsympathetic Sir Terence did not explain them to you?" laughed Samoval. "Indeed, he did not." "In fact, I could swear that he locked them away from you at once?" the Count continued on a jocular note.
"But if Tremayne denies having fought, if he shelters himself behind a falsehood, and says that he has not killed Samoval, then I think the statement assumes some meaning." "Does Captain Tremayne say that?" she asked him sharply. "It is what I understood him to say last night when I ordered him under arrest." "Then," said Sylvia, with full conviction, "Captain Tremayne did not do it."
"That certain words of disagreement passed between Count Samoval and myself on the eve of the affair in which the Count met his death, as you have heard from various witnesses, I at once and freely admitted. Thereby I saved the court time and trouble, and some other witnesses who might have been caused the distress of having to testify against me.
Count Samoval stigmatised the order as a degrading and arbitrary one, and spoke in defence of single combat as the only honourable method of settling differences between gentlemen. Captain Tremayne dissented rather sharply, and appeared to resent the term 'degrading' applied by the Count to the enactment.
"Your assurance that I have made you happy repays me very fully, since your happiness is my tenderest concern. Believe me, dear lady, you may ever count Jeronymo de Samoval your most devoted and obedient slave."
"Samoval, is it?" said Sir Terence, and went down on one knee beside the body to make a perfunctory examination. Then he looked up at the captain. "And how did this happen?" "Happen?" echoed Tremayne, realising that the question was being addressed particularly to himself. "That is what I am wondering. I found him here in this condition." "You found him here?
And O'Moy, thankful that she should take such a view this mercifully hopeful that the last had been heard of his peccant and vexatious brother-in-law content, more than content, to leave her comforted such illusions. And then, while she was still discussing the matter terms of comparative calm, came an orderly to summon him away, so that he left her in the company of Samoval.
"The only quarrel that I am aware of between them," he said, "was concerned with this very enactment of your lordship's. Samoval proclaimed it infamous, and Tremayne resented the term. Hot words passed between them, but the altercation was allowed to go no further at the time by myself and others who were present." His lordship had raised his brows.
The grave anxiety of Dom Miguel's countenance was instantly dispelled. In his relief he permitted himself a smile. "My lord, there is not the need to take the sense of the Council. The Council has given me carte blanche to obtain your consent to a suppression of the Samoval affair. And without hesitation I accept the further condition that you make.
They descended, to find luncheon served already in the open under the trellis vine, and the party consisted of Lady O'Moy, Miss Armytage, Captain Tremayne, Major Carruthers, and Count Samoval, of whose presence this was the adjutant's first intimation.
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