By Wit of Woman

overy. I sat for some time thinking about it-and my t

hat I "had run up against a snag." In other words, I had misunderstood the re

now. It was not my pride that he had hurt in not recognizing me. It was my anger that he had stirred-that he should

ll; and knew that I had won my little victor

e I could scarcely hold that delight in check. It took the bit in its teeth and ran away with my sober common sense. My thoughts ve

a "usual person;" and I succeeded in pulling up my

ad behaved abominably to me; had flirted and cheated and fooled me; and I had always felt that I never could and ne

to consider in regard to him-how I could make use of him to secure justice

n ordinary girl and magnanimous enough to forgive him, and if, further, I could save him permanently fro

nd him. I had better explain it here; for I thought it al

s the head and front. The aim was nothing less than the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Em

he death of the old Emperor. The movement had the widest ramifications; and the wh

phen, lived, the right to the Hungarian throne would be theirs; and thus, Duke Ladislas, a man of great ambition and the soul of the movement, had every

ng; and for another he could not bring himself to believe that the man whom beyond all others in the world he admired and trusted, Duke Ladislas, could be guilty of s

o work from the other end, and attempt to discover the agents who had done the deed, and wo

is sons; and therefore, if I were to succeed in killing Karl's opium habit, and even induce him to play the grea

talk with Karl-and at that moment I stamped my foot in impotent anger, and wrenching my thoughts away fro

saw that she had passed a very uncomfortable morning. She had been weeping, and havin

been out,

pleting m

of making spiteful speeches! I ha

iteful in having

they are ai

be careful to have some place t

rrent in what you say. It's positivel

e question with another. I think I'll do that now.

d that either," sh

n to-m

where to-morrow." S

you think; but you have planned to

oster

te. You are thinking of trying to deny what I say. I can see that-but pray don't waste your

seen Cou

as I do find them out, nothing else matters. But I will tell yo

she echoe

n. I said 'allow'-and I mean no

to a storm of invective, using more than one little oath to point he

have had inquiries made in Paris for M. Constans, and a wire from me will bring him here in search of you. You know what that means;" I ad

anaged to stammer out-her vo

our heart. If you force me, that telegram will go to-day. Nor is that all. I will go to Duke Ladislas an

back; besides, will he

ruined by opium drugging. By whom, Madame-by the secret agent of the French Government, the ex-

ut a note of passion in my voice; and every word told.

hat and wors

e cried, covering her fa

ore; so it was fortunate she stopped me. She was in truth so frightened that if I had

What have I done to make you

d and not your enemy, if you trust instead of deceiv

can

o you how, so l

all that

rs of the Hungarian national movement to you

how I am afraid

that how will i

do all you wish. I will. I

. I know enough to test the truth of what you say; a

carriage. At the end of the Radialstrasse Count Karl will join me. We drive first to a villa in Buda, behind the Blocksberg-a villa

n repeating a lesson, and fin

coming

N

morr

N

onvince me that a

as readily obed

tav is com

at four o'clock. To

to act as though everything were as i

are

hing may turn upo

he sus

equences will not be pleasant for you. You will tell Count Gustav not to see you to-morrow, because you are afraid I shall gue

m I to do a

d those whose power is behind me will see not only t

ing up ev

ng up in reality is the risk of a gaol and t

n, have mercy on

ny things to fix, and I must be back in the house soon after Count Gustav reached i

ose which had sufficed to frighten Madame d'Artelle; and I must have the proofs ready to produce. I was going to change his present ha

lly kept garden; not more than a mile from the villa I myself had just rented. But to my surprise it was occupied: a girl was playin

house, and the dogs came scampering across

. "If the house is as much beyond the descriptio

take the hous

ah, yes-'Unter den Linden.' Is not that the name?" and taki

" and she pointed to the limes which gave the name. "

room. Presently the mother came; a tired looking creature who had once been pretty, like the girl, but was now frayed and worn.

welve months cer

, dismally. "I have let it for two months, and we go

nt it for a month yet, and perhaps could

and enabled to fix every room and passage and door in my m

ts?" I asked, at the end

lone, and do most of the work when we are

ts. I wonder now if we could induce your tenant

ut I do not know him. The agents hav

ed down at random a name and address

drove rapidly to my own house

been used? Was it merely as the name in which Count Karl usually travelled inco

t then, as I have said, I am accust

usly than usual; and should not have dismissed it from my thoughts as I did when I reache

tep conce