El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-09
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fdeutial secretary Of Count Marlanx.
! Now, l happen to know that he is still
/ in my husbands service. or was no long
err ago than last week He is here for
purpose. as my husbands represent
alive. 1 have not been asleep all these
months at Schloss Marlanx. 1 have
seen and heard enough to convince me
| that some great movement is on foot.
NV intelligence tells me that it has to
do with Graustark AS he wishes the
prince no good. 1t must be for evil"
But there is nothing he can do. He
has no following here. The prince is
| adored by the people. Count Marlanx
would not be such a fool as to-
HE is no FOOL she interrupted
quickly That's why l am afraid. II
he is plotting against the crown, you
may depend upon it he is laying his
plans we'll John Tullis. that man is
/ a devil-a devil incarnate"' She turned
| her face away. A spasm of utter re-
| pugnance crossed her face.
Il am afraid Of Peter Brutus. He is
| here to watch-everybOdy
! She leaned against the great carved
manteI post. tall. slender. lissom
creature, exquisitely gowned in rarest
/ Irish lace, her bare neck and shoulders
| cleaning white against the dull tim
/ bers beyond. the faint glow from the
| embers creeping up to her face with
| the insistence of a maiden'S flush. He
gazed in rapt admiration, his heart
, humping like fury in his great breast.
She was little more than a girl. this
wife of old Marlanx, and yet how
! wise, how clever. how brilliant she
was,
She was well named Ingomede the
Beautiful.
Does Baron Dangloss know this
stand beside her.
81 don't know" she said thought
fully al have not spoken to him con-
corning Brutus. Perhaps he knows.
The baron is very wise. Let me tell
you how I happen to ..14.cw that Peter
Brutus is ST.. serving Count : -lianx
and why l think his presence signifies
a crisis OF some sort"
Her voice. always low and even.
seemed lower still ''In the first place.
/ have a faithful friend in one Of the
oldest retainers at Schloss Marlanx.
His daughter is my maid. She is here
with me now. The old man came to
see Josepha one day last week. He
had accompanied Count Marlanx TO
the town of Balak. which is in Ak
phain, a mile beyond the Graustark
line Peter Brutus was with my hus-
band in Balak for two days. They
were clOSeted together from morning
till night in the house where Marlanx
was stopping At the end of two days
Brutus went away. but he carried
with him a vast sum Of money pro-
vided by my husband 1t was given
out that he was on his way TO Serros.
in Dawsbergen, where he expected TO
purchase a business block for his mas
ter Marlanx waited another day in
Balak, permitting Josepha's father to
come on to EdelweiSs with message
for me and to see his daughter. He
"And Josepha's father saw Brutus in
Edelweiss?"
''No But he did see him going into
Balak as he left for Edelweiss that
morning. He wore a disguise. but
Jacob says he could not be mistaken.
Moreover. he was accompanied by sew
eral men whom he recognized as Grau-
stark mountaineers and hunters OF
rather unsavory reputation. They left
Brutus at the gates of Balak and went
off into the hills. All this happened
before l knew that Peter was living
in Edelweiss. When | saw him here
/ knew at once that his presence meant
something sinister. l can put many
things together that once puzzled me
the comings and goings of months. the
secret reports and consultations. the
queer looking men who came to the
castle. the long absences Of my hus-
band and my-my own virtual impris-
onment-yes. imprisonment. l was
not permitted to leave the castle for
days at a time during his absences"
Surely you will not go back again.
he began holly.
'Shr' She put a finger to her lips.
A manservant was quietly crossing
the hall just off the library. He is
a new man. / do not like his appear
ance."
The servant disappeared through a
door at the end of the hail.
Then there were the great sums Of
money that my husband sent off from
time to time" she continued. land the
strange boxes that came overland TO
the castle and later went away again
as secretly as they came. Mr.. Tullis.
/ am confident in my mind that those
boxes contained firearms and ammu-
milton. l have thought it all out. Per
haps I am wrong. but it seems to me
that [ can almost see those firearms
stored away in the caves and cabins
outside of Edelweiss. ready for instant
use when the signal comes"
God, An uprising, A plot SO huge
as THAR he gasped, amazed. 1t is for
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