Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-05

ready to give him away because a heavy
dragon of the favored race smiled at her
across breakfast table. Faht The ways
of Providence are iBScButable; il remains
for mortal men to do what they may to
turn them into more convenient channels.
linen there was Counsellor whose itical
Importance could not be denied. Yet he
did the bluff thing bluffiy and said the OBJ
vious thing obviously. and blundered on
from one great city to another but blum
dered triumphantiy! Still there were COM
pensations The good God had given the
Russian craft and a silent tongue. and a
facility for telling a lie Seasonably.
l4lmur was bv a fraction of a second too
! late to see what the Russian had seen.
Valerie was very white, but she was talk
ing indfferently to NJ. Rlivinsld with her
eyes fixed upon her plate. 1t was some
time before she seemed to grow conscious
of Elmur's gaze: slight fieck of color
showed and paled in her checks and then
at length her long lashes iuttered up and
the German perceived in the darkness of
her eyes trace of unshed tears.
"Mademoiselle, you are tired he said
with sOlicitude
YES" she answered smiling But we
are going back to Revonde in day or
two, and then ! viii wipe out the remem-
brance of everything that has happened at
Sagan from my mind forever,'
E!mur about to reply when Sagan
spoke again
No one appears to have heard or seen
anything of Captain Colendorp. We will
have the dogs out, CAPTAIN Rallywood
! Pray tell his hghness that in the course
of an hour or two we hope to be able to
tell him where our man has got to. His
absence is doubtless due to some trifiing
i cause"
AS Hollywood retired Sagan cast a com
prehensive glance round the tables, and
noted Counsellors absence with a sinister
satisfaction.
All the morning he had been Specializing
| upon the course Counsellor woulI pursue
after the rencontre of the previous mig mt
! Lost Irg1x.
would not Care to brazen it out. Sag:in
argued that the British envoy could not be
very sure of his position ye-. What had
he proposed to the duke? And hoy had
the duke answered him? What was to be
the result of the visit, would there he
any? Selpdorf held the dukes confidence
J He must checkmate England and openly
throw his influence into the German scale
No half courses could any longer avail in
Nassau.
Here his reflections were INTERRUPTED. for
Counsellor's big burly figure was bending
over Nine de Sagan's chair, before he az
cepted the seat at her side with the as
sured manner of favored guest.
Even the Russian attache blinkcd. All,
these islanders, What next?
As an immediate result Count Sagan was
forced to accept the situation thrust anon
him.
Have you slept well major:' he in
au iT sardonieaally. No bad dreams, eh?''
in the morningslto forget bal dreams if
have had any replHd Counsellor, with
THAT is WISE saM Sagan, for dreams
and schemes ofthe 1tght rarely have solid
foundations" II
so they saylmy iqfd. but do not trou-
bic myself about these things. mar OF
my age is forced to cvnsecrate mis- best en-
| ergies, to his digestion.
The duke had" dec ided upon returning to
Revonde during the forenoon, but most of
| the guests were toEremain for the pro-
! jected boar hunt. TIE, hunting party had
already startedywheh Blivinski and Coun-
| seilor drove out of the castle courtyard on
| their way to the nearest railway station
] which lay under the mountains some miles
away. ~
| The tsa had <fllOwn the snow into heavy
| drifts. leaving Che roads and other exposed
| places bare ana a1moAt ciean-swept Near
| the station they pa ssed a squadron of the
| guard. sent by sWaifenloup to escort the
| duke back to the capital
The pair in the carriage talked little but
| when the juggling of accoutrements had
| died away Blivinsh said, in an emotion
| less tone:
''Yor met with Count Sagan last night
| then-in your dreams?"
Yes. or Duke Gustave would have been
over the border by this morning,
And history goes to prove that reigning
De borrowed without danger"
You allude. to Bulgaria o. Blivinski ask
co promptly. with an air of genial interest
| why, for the sake of argument, Alex
ander can stand as case In point"
| returned him."
counsellor's reply was characteristic. and