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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Secret of the Silver Car - Further Adventures of Anthony Trent, Master Criminal - -Author: Wyndham Martyn - -Release Date: July 30, 2012 [EBook #40372] -[Last updated: August 23, 2012] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECRET OF THE SILVER CAR *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire. This book was produced from -scanned images of public domain material from the Google -Print archive. - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40372 ***</div> <hr class="chap" /> <h1>THE SECRET OF</h1> @@ -206,7 +167,7 @@ Print archive. <tr><td align="right">V</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Five"><span class="smcap">The Man Who Denied</span></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right">VI</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Six"><span class="smcap">Fresh Fields</span></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right">VII</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Seven"><span class="smcap">The Sentence of Banishment</span></a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="right">VIII</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Eight"><span class="smcap">Count Michæl Temesvar</span></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">VIII</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Eight"><span class="smcap">Count Michæl Temesvar</span></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right">IX</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Nine"><span class="smcap">Pauline</span></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right">X</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Ten"><span class="smcap">The Greater Game</span></a></td></tr> <tr><td align="right">XI</td><td align="left"><a href="#Chapter_Eleven"><span class="smcap">Anthony Plays His Hand</span></a></td></tr> @@ -295,7 +256,7 @@ city but would resent any slur on me."</p> name or your city's fame. I am only saying that if you were crossing with the idea of making a killing at games of chance I should not benefit because you assumed the name of one who ornaments the cervical -vertebræ of perfectly dressed men. I only meant that anything can take +vertebræ of perfectly dressed men. I only meant that anything can take place on a ship such as this is and that this man who escaped tonight may have done so to avoid capture and possible imprisonment or even death."</p> @@ -876,7 +837,7 @@ detectives of New York and London. <i>I am Anthony Trent.</i>"</p><hr class="cha <p>"You?" cried Private Smith. "Ye Gods! And I haven't even a match left so I can see you before we go. I die in better company than I know." Trent could hear that he raised himself slowly and painfully to his feet. Then -he heard the soldier's heels click smartly together. "Ave Cæsar—" he +he heard the soldier's heels click smartly together. "Ave Cæsar—" he began. But the immortal speech of those gladiators being about to die was not finished.</p> @@ -921,7 +882,7 @@ luck was with Anthony Trent. The one man—with the exception of Sutton whose lips he was sure were sealed—who could make a clear hundred thousand dollars<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> reward for his capture was removed from the chance of doing it even as the knowledge was offered him. The words that he would -have spoken, "Hail Cæsar, I, being about to die, salute thee!" had come +have spoken, "Hail Cæsar, I, being about to die, salute thee!" had come true in that blinding flash that had brought Anthony Trent back to the world.</p> @@ -1816,7 +1777,7 @@ have no debts. There are no jewels in the safe."</p> dare tell him. She could not guess that he knew of the three packages of letters each tied with green ribbon. It was, he supposed, the old story of compromising letters. Innocent enough, but letters that would spell -evil tidings to the jealous fiancé. They might have been written to +evil tidings to the jealous fiancé. They might have been written to Colonel Langley. Men of that heroic stamp often appealed to sentimental school girls and the colonel was undeniably handsome in his cold superior way. His heart ached for her. She was suffering. What had @@ -2141,7 +2102,7 @@ been brave days a few years back when Lord St. Just the son and heir had been master of the North Cornwall Foxhounds.</p> <p>"But there's only the Honourable Arthur Grenvil there now," said -Nicholls, "and Lady Daphne. Lord St. Just is military attaché at +Nicholls, "and Lady Daphne. Lord St. Just is military attaché at Washington."</p> <p>"Since when?" Trent demanded.</p> @@ -2183,7 +2144,7 @@ when he was not shooting, rode over the moorlands purple with Cornish heather and yellow with gorse.</p> <p>Nearly always he rode near the castle of Rosecarrel and was often -annoyed to find his pilgrimage shared by archæologists and other +annoyed to find his pilgrimage shared by archæologists and other visitors. Rosecarrel Castle had begun as a fortress; when cannon rendered masonry useless it had become a castellated mansion and now it showed the slow changes of the long centuries and was a delightful @@ -3206,7 +3167,7 @@ And this same man stripped of his mantle of black deeds was<span class="pagenum" talking to him with the deferential air of the junior listening with respect to his superior in years and his superior in knowledge.</p> -<p>What a <i>rôle</i> for Anthony Trent, master criminal! But he played it as +<p>What a <i>rôle</i> for Anthony Trent, master criminal! But he played it as well as any of the parts he had set himself to enact. He became the elder brother, the sage counsellor, the arbiter, the physical trainer and the constant companion. In the beginning he cheerfully set out to @@ -3976,7 +3937,7 @@ help me."</p> <p>He read through the brief notices eagerly and wished English papers discussed personalities with the detail American periodicals employed. -The only item that interested him deeply was a notice that Count Michæl +The only item that interested him deeply was a notice that Count Michæl Temesvar had visited the automobile show at the Crystal Palace and seemed interested in the new twelve cylinder Lion car.</p> @@ -4004,9 +3965,9 @@ given certain powers would he honor it?"</p> <h2><a name="Chapter_Eight" id="Chapter_Eight"><span class="smcap">Chapter Eight</span></a></h2> -<h3><i>COUNT MICHÆL TEMESVAR</i></h3> +<h3><i>COUNT MICHÆL TEMESVAR</i></h3> -<p>Count Michæl Temesvar, when he left behind him the great estate where he +<p>Count Michæl Temesvar, when he left behind him the great estate where he ruled as absolute and tyrannical master and came to the fashionable, pleasure-loving London, was a different man.</p> @@ -4037,7 +3998,7 @@ driving and constant attention. Our ordinary model would suit you better."</p> <p>"I want this because it is said to be the fastest car in the world," -Count Michæl returned. "To me the price is nothing."</p> +Count Michæl returned. "To me the price is nothing."</p> <p>"It isn't that at all, sir," the manager said. "In confidence it wouldn't do us any good if your own mechanics got it in such a condition @@ -4051,7 +4012,7 @@ along my mountain roads by day or night at any speed I choose."</p> <p>"But I pay. I always pay better than others because I want better work."</p> -<p>Count Michæl Temesvar beheld a blue-clad mechanic working under a car. +<p>Count Michæl Temesvar beheld a blue-clad mechanic working under a car. He struck him a sharp blow on the leg with his cane. A grimy-faced man emerged rubbing the bruised limb.</p> @@ -4066,7 +4027,7 @@ cockney accent of his kind.</p> <p>"I couldn't let him go," said Mr. King quickly. "He is my best demonstrator and a wonder at tuning up an engine."</p> -<p>Count Michæl ignored the protesting manager.</p> +<p>Count Michæl ignored the protesting manager.</p> <p>"What is your wage?"</p> @@ -4122,8 +4083,8 @@ Trent was to be allowed to have the run of the shops and the most expert mechanics in the firm were to put all they knew at his disposal.</p> <p>Anthony Trent started by giving the manager the best dinner he had ever -eaten. Then he coached him in the <i>rôle</i> of a manager anxious not to -lose his best demonstrator. King was delighted that Count Michæl walked +eaten. Then he coached him in the <i>rôle</i> of a manager anxious not to +lose his best demonstrator. King was delighted that Count Michæl walked into the trap set for him eagerly. He liked Trent but thought poorly of his chances in a tussle with this big girthed foreigner.</p> @@ -4147,7 +4108,7 @@ both hang out distress signals."</p> friendly fashion at the other, "and the Eagle."</p> <p>They fell to talking technicalities and kept it up till the hour when -Michæl, Count Temesvar went to dine at a house in Bruton street. He told +Michæl, Count Temesvar went to dine at a house in Bruton street. He told his host that as a compliment to this country, his second home, he had just bought an English car and engaged an English chauffeur. The other guests thought it so broad-minded of him. He further endeared himself to @@ -4251,7 +4212,7 @@ his hotel he spread them out on the table and spent hours poring over them.</p> <p>He ventured to ask Mr. Hentzi some particulars of the place, and why -Count Michæl had gone to the expense of importing the chauffeur and the +Count Michæl had gone to the expense of importing the chauffeur and the car when he had many machines in his garage and so many men at his command.</p> @@ -4346,7 +4307,7 @@ was angry.</p> <p>"She was a skater from the Winter Palace in Berlin. She is beautiful or she would not be at Castle Radna; she is clever or she could not control -Count Michæl who has broken many women's hearts. She is bad or she would +Count Michæl who has broken many women's hearts. She is bad or she would not have driven the countess from her home. For myself I hate her and the men and women with whom she fills the place."</p> @@ -4362,8 +4323,8 @@ their errand."</p> <p>"Is the count a politician?"</p> -<p>Hentzi laughed with good natured contempt at such a naïve query. Not to -know Michæl, Count Temesvar's reputation in the field of world politics +<p>Hentzi laughed with good natured contempt at such a naïve query. Not to +know Michæl, Count Temesvar's reputation in the field of world politics was to admit ignorance of all the troubled currents which worried kings and presidents.</p> @@ -4402,7 +4363,7 @@ grievances were not voluble.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a n <p>Anthony Trent met Pauline in rather a curious way. He had been a week at Castle Radna and had not been commanded to drive the count. Then Hentzi -had informed him Count Michæl was sick of a bad cold. Sissek by virtue +had informed him Count Michæl was sick of a bad cold. Sissek by virtue of being senior in the Temesvar service tried to get the new man to help him with his own cars but Trent absolutely declined.</p> @@ -4451,7 +4412,7 @@ and saw it there reflected.</p> <p>Pauline had known the count had engaged a chauffeur from London but she assumed him to be of the usual type. She had no idea that the man who had just made such a superb drive was he. Pauline had been used to much -social enjoyment of a sort and while Count Michæl had been away she had +social enjoyment of a sort and while Count Michæl had been away she had to behave circumspectly. She was dull and she was bored; and now, as though an answer to prayer, Fate had sent her a handsome young man who stood like a bronze statue as he followed the flight of the ball.</p> @@ -4559,7 +4520,7 @@ bad lie. It was an awkward stroke and he corrected her stance and even showed her how to grip the club when suddenly he was struck a tremendous blow on the back of the head. He was thrown off his balance but was up like a cat, dazed a little but anxious to see what had hit him. He -thought it was a golf ball. It was Count Michæl instead. He looked more +thought it was a golf ball. It was Count Michæl instead. He looked more like Francis the First than ever. His eyes were blazing with anger. He had stolen upon them unaware at a moment when Trent's hand was holding the white hand of Pauline as he tried to explain the grip.</p> @@ -4589,7 +4550,7 @@ object to that?"</p> <p>"By no means," the count said becoming more amiable. "I see no objection; but as he has two arms he can carry mine also. He is a <i>beau -garçon</i> Pauline and I do not permit his filthy fingers to touch the hand +garçon</i> Pauline and I do not permit his filthy fingers to touch the hand I kiss." He turned to Trent. "How is it you are here and not at your work?"</p> @@ -4633,7 +4594,7 @@ powerful and jealous servant, and he flashed a look of hatred at Trent. He thoroughly believed that the new man had indeed made the insulting remarks Pauline ascribed to him.</p> -<p>"Michæl," said Pauline caressingly, "let us see what this bold man would +<p>"Michæl," said Pauline caressingly, "let us see what this bold man would do if Peter threatened him. We will not let Peter hurt him but it will be a lesson." Pauline knew men and she saw in Trent one who could not easily be forced to do anything.</p> @@ -4675,7 +4636,7 @@ he had buffetted this quiet, grim fighter, this same man who hit his opponent at will and evaded his enemy's blows with practised ease. These English speaking peoples with their odd notions of independence and their skill with their brutal fists were dangerous. It might well be -that even he, Michæl Temesvar had best remember his new chauffeur was +that even he, Michæl Temesvar had best remember his new chauffeur was not docile like Peter Sissek and the others.</p> <p>"This is murder!" the count said still angrily.</p> @@ -4688,7 +4649,7 @@ any sympathy with Peter Sissek. It was the thought that Pauline had deceived him and that this young man was too skillful in too many ways that annoyed the aristocrat.</p> -<p>"I will send a car back," Count Michæl asserted, "meanwhile stay with +<p>"I will send a car back," Count Michæl asserted, "meanwhile stay with the man you have so cruelly assaulted."</p> <p>Peter Sissek awoke to consciousness a few seconds later and looked with @@ -4734,7 +4695,7 @@ send another man."</p> Pauline think I'm going to carry her clubs around when I've got my own work to do?"</p> -<p>"So that was it," Hentzi commented. "That was why Count Michæl stormed +<p>"So that was it," Hentzi commented. "That was why Count Michæl stormed at me so. My good Alfred, you are young and life is sweet. I counsel you to remember that always while you are at Radna. The Temesvars have always been hot headed. You see that steep cliff yonder?"</p> @@ -4798,7 +4759,7 @@ Temesvar family, servants proud of their caste and the man they served. The major domo spoke German and French. He was a pompous person who ruled absolutely below stairs. He did not like the stranger but he had been commanded not to allow any brawls and he saw to it the chauffeur -was let alone. There was much to eat and to drink. Count Michæl owned +was let alone. There was much to eat and to drink. Count Michæl owned herds of swine which grazed in the miles of oak and beech forests surrounding Castle Radna and the heady drinks that abounded were made from his own fruits by his own people.</p> @@ -4893,7 +4854,7 @@ once Inspector McWalsh had carried to the door some priceless antiques he had taken from the very collection the Inspector and his men were guarding.</p> -<p>Reflection showed him that Count Michæl Temesvar was far too shrewd to +<p>Reflection showed him that Count Michæl Temesvar was far too shrewd to trust the document that meant so much to him to insecure shelter. Despite the fact that the castle seemed filled with idle, drinking, overfed lackeys and he himself was unwatched, there must be some @@ -4901,12 +4862,12 @@ precaution taken which would defeat him unless he trod warily.</p> <p>It was his experience that rich men knew little of the vulnerability of the safes to which they entrusted their valuables. Again and again he -had been able to open such with ludicrous ease. Count Michæl probably +had been able to open such with ludicrous ease. Count Michæl probably had an antique which would send<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> a "peteman" into ecstacies of mirth. Trent's job was to locate it.</p> <p>Next day he was commanded to accompany Pauline and the count to the golf -links. Pauline hardly looked at him but Count Michæl watched him +links. Pauline hardly looked at him but Count Michæl watched him continually. He was relieved at the girl's attitude. She was beaten by her opponent and angry at it. The count was not a sportsman. He putted over the easy bunkers and more than once he lifted his ball to a better @@ -4924,7 +4885,7 @@ was to be found in the count's library. It was odd that such a man would not make some great city his home. He mentioned this once to Hentzi who made the astonishing answer that the count dreaded assassination by political enemies. Fearing perhaps he had said too much the secretary -added that Count Michæl had long ago abandoned politics for the life of +added that Count Michæl had long ago abandoned politics for the life of a great landowner and that such a fear was without foundation.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p> <p>"It wouldn't be easy for a stranger to get in here, would it?" Trent @@ -4987,7 +4948,7 @@ to pay a fine before a judge. Think of it! An English lord haled into court by his own footman and fined. There is nothing like that here so when you are struck again do not think of an English policeman and a fine. I wish you to stay. When Sissek drives down the mountain I am -always alarmed. You go twice as fast and I have no fear. Count Michæl +always alarmed. You go twice as fast and I have no fear. Count Michæl desires you to stay."</p> <p>"I haven't said anything about going have I?"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> Trent retorted. He @@ -5064,9 +5025,9 @@ the castle grounds and had never driven him.</p> <p>From the bedroom a door led evidently to a room <i>en suite</i>. This was unlocked and Trent entered noiselessly. It was a room twice the size of the adjoining apartment and furnished magnificently. So vast and -splendid was the chamber he thought it must be that of Count Michæl, the +splendid was the chamber he thought it must be that of Count Michæl, the room where perchance the treaty lay concealed for which he had risked so -much. But it was not Count Michæl who lay stertorously slumbering. It +much. But it was not Count Michæl who lay stertorously slumbering. It was instead a prince<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> of a great and lately reigning family who had strangely disappeared from the world a few months earlier and had been, so report ran, drowned in escaping from exile.</p> @@ -5081,7 +5042,7 @@ an article in a London paper which spoke of the prince as being as dangerous dead as when leading his dissolute life.</p> <p>Anthony Trent looked at the weak, passion-lined face of the man who had -sought Count Michæl's shelter and smiled. He had long ago been intrigued +sought Count Michæl's shelter and smiled. He had long ago been intrigued by the idea of mixing himself in high politics. Here, possibly, was an excellent beginning. But the prince could wait a little while. The time was not yet ripe for his resurrection.</p> @@ -5125,7 +5086,7 @@ his already discovered absence from his room. It was true he had bolted the door but someone from the outside might have detected the dark-clad climber making his unlawful ascent. Already a search might be in progress which would eventually claim him as the third failure. Count -Michæl was often so excited about trivial things that the listener was +Michæl was often so excited about trivial things that the listener was not able to guess whether his present mood was the outcome of some small irritation or of something far more sinister. There recurred frequently the name of Pauline and once or twice the count pointed to the windows @@ -5134,7 +5095,7 @@ where slept the man whom his people had mourned as dead.</p> <p>There was one moment of dreadful anticipation for the American. He noticed that Hentzi was permitting himself to argue with his master. Suddenly as the twain passed by Trent's refuge the count buffetted his -secretary on the head. It was Count Michæl's favorite expression of +secretary on the head. It was Count Michæl's favorite expression of annoyance. Trent himself had suffered thus on the golf links. Hentzi ducked in time to receive merely a glancing blow but he gripped the arm of Trent's chair to steady himself. If he had taken his eyes off the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span> @@ -5144,7 +5105,7 @@ intruder.</p> <p>For a full half hour Anthony Trent sat quiet. Then the count and Hentzi left him alone. Now that immediate risk of detection seemed past Trent assured himself that his evening had been well spent. Undoubtedly Count -Michæl's rooms, the rooms he wanted to investigate—were those through +Michæl's rooms, the rooms he wanted to investigate—were those through whose windows the two had come and gone. He memorized as well as he could the position in the corridors the doors would occupy. The discovery of this courtyard three floors in depth helped him to @@ -5179,7 +5140,7 @@ be busy. Tell me you know the roads to Fiume, Zengg and Agram well?"</p> Anthony who was answering his august employer. He waited until the count drove. He saw that the autocrat broke every rule of the many which go to make a perfect drive yet sent his ball every inch of two hundred yards. -Never had Count Michæl done such a thing before.</p> +Never had Count Michæl done such a thing before.</p> <p>"Let us see you beat that," he said dramatically.</p> @@ -5247,7 +5208,7 @@ nobility have you Mademoiselle Pauline?"</p> <p>"I at least am an <i>artiste</i>," she flung back at him. "To be the most graceful skater in the world and to have earned more in a week than you -in a year is something which puts me as far above you as Count Michæl +in a year is something which puts me as far above you as Count Michæl Temesvar."</p> <p>"Absolutely," Trent agreed, "take your mashie here and go back slowly @@ -5364,7 +5325,7 @@ the table and among these our Pauline has no part. She knows that."</p> Hentzi was not in evening dress.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span></p> <p>"At half past eight. There is one among us who likes the late dinners of -the English and his likings must be obeyed even by Count Michæl."</p> +the English and his likings must be obeyed even by Count Michæl."</p> <p>"An Englishman?" Trent queried.</p> @@ -5385,7 +5346,7 @@ be the sudden need to utilize every moment.</p> would be continued long after dark. Of necessity the count would be there and undoubtedly the officer and his royal master would grace the board. Entrance could easily be made through their room and over the -courtyard to the Count Michæl's apartment. There would be time for a +courtyard to the Count Michæl's apartment. There would be time for a thorough search.</p> <p>The kitchens were full of bustling maids assisting the cooks. There was @@ -5414,8 +5375,8 @@ plans. It was said she ruled her husband absolutely and loved him little.</p> <p>Trent recognized the two men he had brought with him. They were in -evening dress as was Count Michæl and decorated with many orders, of St. -Stephen of Hungary among others. The military attaché bristled with +evening dress as was Count Michæl and decorated with many orders, of St. +Stephen of Hungary among others. The military attaché bristled with medals and there were others in brilliant uniforms.</p> <p>No other woman was present but the princess.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> Her jewels made Trent's @@ -5436,7 +5397,7 @@ to observe Hentzi hovering on the outskirts of the room directing the servants, a sort of super-major-domo.</p> <p>It was exactly eleven when he crossed the dark courtyard and opened one -of the long French windows of Count Michæl's room. It was in darkness. A +of the long French windows of Count Michæl's room. It was in darkness. A little water driven power plant supplied some of the chief rooms of Castle Radna with electric light and he was able, after screening the windows to flood the room with light. It was an apartment the @@ -5448,7 +5409,7 @@ on it he knew his hopes were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_18 remain there indefinitely for all his skill availed or all the knowledge of the greatest "petemen" would aid, had he possessed it.</p> -<p>Count Michæl Temesvar was not one of those who entrusted precious things +<p>Count Michæl Temesvar was not one of those who entrusted precious things to insecure keeping. It was a Chubbwood burglar proof safe of a type Trent had heard of but never before seen. The double-dialled cannon ball safe of the American maker was the nearest approach to this gleaming @@ -5461,7 +5422,7 @@ business for more than a century. Trent did not doubt, as he gazed at it, that there would be developed by the need of it craftsmen who could open even this. But the time was not yet.</p> -<p>Count Michæl Temesvar had been wise in buying the only safe in the world +<p>Count Michæl Temesvar had been wise in buying the only safe in the world whose patent had been extended by the Privy Council of Great Britain. With his gloved hands Trent touched the thing lightly. The millionth chance that it might not be locked was against him. He was wasting his @@ -5488,7 +5449,7 @@ he would assuredly be interrupted before he could be forced to give up his secret.</p> <p>Hentzi would never be entrusted with the combination. None would know it -but Count Michæl. For a moment he wondered if Pauline might be dragged +but Count Michæl. For a moment he wondered if Pauline might be dragged into it to exercise her Delilah arts on her protector.</p> <p>"There must be some way out of it," Trent murmured a hundred times as he @@ -5561,13 +5522,13 @@ full. I should be forced out of public life. I have always been intolerant of breaches of faith and that would be remembered against me as a mark of hypocrisy."</p> -<p>"But Mr. Trent says Count Michæl Temesvar hasn't got the treaty," she +<p>"But Mr. Trent says Count Michæl Temesvar hasn't got the treaty," she cried, "and that means <i>he</i> has it."</p> <p>Her father shook his head.</p> <p>"That's just what it doesn't mean," he returned. "Mr. Trent says I am to -tell Count Michæl he has not the treaty. If Trent had it he would have +tell Count Michæl he has not the treaty. If Trent had it he would have told me so. I am to do this risky thing in order that he may ultimately succeed. You see, Daphne, my statement to the press that I have decided to take office is part of a move in the game that another man is @@ -5615,7 +5576,7 @@ drag me into it as this scheme will do."</p> <p>"That impossible nonconformist person Muir who has never been farther afield than Paris and has no knowledge of Eastern affairs at all. He will undo everything I have striven for. He will play into Count -Michæl's hands as a child might."</p> +Michæl's hands as a child might."</p> <p>"Then isn't the chance worth taking?" Daphne asked, pointing to the cable.</p> @@ -5667,7 +5628,7 @@ great empire.</p> <hr class="tb" /> <p>There was no telephone in Castle Radna. Every morning some one of Count -Michæl's men went to Agram and brought back letters and telegrams. It +Michæl's men went to Agram and brought back letters and telegrams. It fell to Anthony Trent to fetch the mail that came twenty-four hours after the conversation over the telephone with the prime minister. Among the many pieces which the postmaster placed in the double locked mail @@ -5685,7 +5646,7 @@ code which he might be able to decipher after long study. But<span class="pagenu language should be Croatian or Hungarian he would still be in the dark.</p> <p>It chanced that the count was near the garage as he drove in. It was a -frequent habit of Count Michæl's to walk over to the great stables where +frequent habit of Count Michæl's to walk over to the great stables where formerly his thoroughbreds had been housed and now only a few riding horses remained. He greeted "Arlfrit" with the manner that proved him to be in a good temper. Hentzi was at his side and opened the mail pouch. @@ -5706,7 +5667,7 @@ unlock the bag.</p> <p>In the same secluded dell of the forest Trent opened the bag a second time and read the message addressed to the Earl of Rosecarrel. "I am informed," it said, "that you have accepted office. Deny this rumor -instantly. Affirmation means danger to you. Michæl Temesvar."</p> +instantly. Affirmation means danger to you. Michæl Temesvar."</p> <p>Trent chuckled. Things were beginning to move. Of late he had found his occupation boring. It<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span> seemed he was always acting as a mail carrier @@ -5730,12 +5691,12 @@ disobey the count. There is a guest who admired her."</p> <p>"Why didn't the guv'nor biff him one same as he does you when he's mad?" Trent demanded.</p> -<p>"There are some to whom even Count Michæl may offer no violence," Hentzi +<p>"There are some to whom even Count Michæl may offer no violence," Hentzi returned in a shocked voice. "But you would not understand."</p> <p>On the whole Anthony Trent was glad that the prince had been the cause of the temporary removal of Pauline. She was a menace to him. Also he -rejoiced to think that the arbitrary Michæl Temesvar had his own uneasy +rejoiced to think that the arbitrary Michæl Temesvar had his own uneasy moments.</p> <p>Because Anthony Trent was more concerned in the successful outcome of @@ -5753,10 +5714,10 @@ developments in the future.</p> adversaries he found excitement enough in going to Agram and opening the wires. Lord Rosecarrel, he found, had acted on his instructions. He affirmed his intention to take office and when he received another more -threatening telegram from Count Michæl declared that he knew the treaty +threatening telegram from Count Michæl declared that he knew the treaty was not in his possession.</p> -<p>Count Michæl's anger was reflected in the face of each scurrying servant +<p>Count Michæl's anger was reflected in the face of each scurrying servant of the many with whom Trent came into contact. Hentzi visited it vicariously upon one Alfred Anthony until that bellicose chauffeur reminded him that the fate of Peter Sissek was his for the asking. Later @@ -5780,7 +5741,7 @@ said in simple tribute to his companion's parts.</p> left Trent to think over his plans.</p> <p>So far things had travelled evenly. The test was now to come. He was -reasonably certain that when Count Michæl set out for London he would +reasonably certain that when Count Michæl set out for London he would have in his possession the draft of the treaty. With this he would confront a prime minister and possibly the entire cabinet. He knew well of Buchanan's dislike of Lord Rosecarrel. Had Anthony Trent been in the @@ -5792,7 +5753,7 @@ When he had stolen the Mount Aubyn ruby in San Francisco he had mailed it to his camp in Maine and thus confounded detectives who had searched his apartment.</p> -<p>That Count Michæl had not adopted this plan he knew because for the past +<p>That Count Michæl had not adopted this plan he knew because for the past week he alone had fetched and carried mail matter. The time he had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> taken in opening the mails had to be made up by faster travelling and the Lion engine never failed him. The peasants used to point out the @@ -5813,7 +5774,7 @@ He was sure Daphne would drop her title if he thought it best.</p> he was immediately concerned with the success of this thing he had sworn to accomplish.</p> -<p>Hentzi told him that Count Michæl would travel by night to Fiume there +<p>Hentzi told him that Count Michæl would travel by night to Fiume there to board a Venice bound boat and catch the continental express for Paris. As none but he drove the Lion and the count preferred it and its driver the assumption was that Alfred Anthony would take him. It was on @@ -5840,7 +5801,7 @@ Hentzi.</p> <p>"It is Peter who takes the count," the secretary said idly, "You are to go to Budapesth tomorrow. You see what it is to be considered so -skillful that Count Michæl offers you to his guests and goes more slowly +skillful that Count Michæl offers you to his guests and goes more slowly himself."</p> <p>Then Trent noticed the grinning and triumphant Sissek. It was a black @@ -5875,7 +5836,7 @@ Hentzi or others could intervene he could with his boxer's skill most certainly damage one eye if not two of a man who, to drive down dark and dangerous roads, must possess unclouded vision.</p> -<p>But he hesitated. If Count Michæl had chosen Sissek because Alfred +<p>But he hesitated. If Count Michæl had chosen Sissek because Alfred Anthony was under suspicion an assault on the Croatian at the present moment might tend to confirm these doubts and he might<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> find himself overpowered and under guards he could not overwhelm. To put the car out @@ -5922,14 +5883,14 @@ the proper moment, had waited anxiously for the approach of the Panhard.</p> <p>He was not sure that the powerful headlights would not pierce his leafy shelter and discover him to the watchful driver. He could imagine -vividly the chauffeur warning his employer. And as Count Michæl always +vividly the chauffeur warning his employer. And as Count Michæl always went armed and might even now be suspicious of his cockney servant he would very likely have no hesitation in picking him off the boughs as Anthony Trent, years before in his New Hampshire hills, had shot squirrels. If by any chance he could get to the ground, only twelve feet beneath, before he was aimed at he would have to trust to the moment's inspiration for his next move. He knew almost certainly that Count -Michæl carried the document he wanted in a flat leather case which +Michæl carried the document he wanted in a flat leather case which fitted into his breast pocket.</p> <p>If by any chance the men did not see him and the car passed him on its @@ -5996,7 +5957,7 @@ jolted off. It fell on the Panhard's bonnet and then bounded into the side of the road. He had run past it fifty yards before he brought his machine to a stop.</p> -<p>When he backed up to the fallen bag Count Michæl was aroused from +<p>When he backed up to the fallen bag Count Michæl was aroused from slumber and ascribed the accident to Peter's carelessness. In the chauffeur's apology Anthony Trent heard his assumed name brought in. Plainly Peter was making him the culprit. He had pitched the bundle from @@ -6017,7 +5978,7 @@ from his springy seat to look into the clear, hard eyes of Alfred Anthony.</p> <p>Then he realized that his revolver was in the cockney's hand and the -precious wallet gone from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> his pocket. Count Michæl was no coward and he +precious wallet gone from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> his pocket. Count Michæl was no coward and he thought quickly with that intriguing, plotting brain of his. A great diamond still sparkled upon his finger and the money in another pocket was untouched.</p> @@ -6037,10 +5998,10 @@ the victor.</p> <p>It was a curious scene. The Panhard had come to rest in a clearing of the woods and a brilliant moon gave the place almost the clarity of day.</p> -<p>Count Michæl sat down on a log and lighted a cigarette. Almost he was -usurping Trent's <i>rôle</i> under such circumstances.</p> +<p>Count Michæl sat down on a log and lighted a cigarette. Almost he was +usurping Trent's <i>rôle</i> under such circumstances.</p> -<p>"This interests me," said Count Michæl, "let us discuss it."</p> +<p>"This interests me," said Count Michæl, "let us discuss it."</p> <p>"I've no time," Trent said smiling. "I am due at Fiume or Trieste or Zara as the case may be at a certain hour and as I haven't the Lion here @@ -6093,12 +6054,12 @@ good.</p> <p>"Good-by," said Trent genially, "Give my love to your guest the prince and all his high born companions."</p> -<p>If Count Michæl had looked angry before his face now was doubly hideous +<p>If Count Michæl had looked angry before his face now was doubly hideous with rage. His hold over Lord Rosecarrel was gone and he could not doubt but this stranger who had posed as a chauffeur had learned somehow of the presence of the prince. If it were known in the chancelleries of Europe all his carefully matured plans would go for naught. Unless -Alfred Anthony were captured Michæl, Count Temesvar could never again +Alfred Anthony were captured Michæl, Count Temesvar could never again make his pleasant little trips to the great houses of England, France and Italy. There he was known as one who had abandoned all political ambitions to become merely the country magnate interested in cattle and @@ -6143,24 +6104,24 @@ tops of the others. When dawn came he was in no better plight.</p> <p>The position in which Anthony Trent found himself was by far the most serious of his career. Hitherto he had faced imprisonment at most. Now capture meant without doubt—death. He had, without thinking of the -folly of his utterance, told Count Michæl that he knew of the presence +folly of his utterance, told Count Michæl that he knew of the presence of the guests unsuspected by the great powers.</p> -<p>Count Michæl had probably staged the supposed escape of the prince and +<p>Count Michæl had probably staged the supposed escape of the prince and supplied a convenient corpse for his interment. Unrest was in every portion of what had once been the dual monarchy. Beggars on horseback were riding to a fall and the Balkan volcano was near eruption. And -Anthony Trent, alone of those opposed to Count Michæl's party, knew -where was hidden the man whom the count was coaching for his big <i>rôle</i>. +Anthony Trent, alone of those opposed to Count Michæl's party, knew +where was hidden the man whom the count was coaching for his big <i>rôle</i>. His escape would mean disaster. By this time no doubt passing countrymen had recognized their overlord and released him. But for lack of a compass Anthony Trent should even now have been at a port where he could escape to a friendly vessel.</p> -<p>He remembered what Lord Rosecarrel had told him of Count Michæl's +<p>He remembered what Lord Rosecarrel had told him of Count Michæl's character and autocratic power. Although theoretically shorn of his former<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span> absolutism it was unlikely that peasants who worked on his lands -and still felt their dependence upon him should question Count Michæl's +and still felt their dependence upon him should question Count Michæl's actions. World news which spreads rapidly among the herded workers in factories crept slowly among these land tillers. They had enough to eat and drink and were grateful for that after their years of fighting.</p> @@ -6193,7 +6154,7 @@ of observers and dropped into a profound sleep. It was the unusual spectacle of the watch dog sitting by the mound of hay that attracted the notice of the farmer. He supposed that the animal—part hound and part draft dog—had run some animal to earth. When the farmer saw that -the stranger slept there for whom he had, under Count Michæl's +the stranger slept there for whom he had, under Count Michæl's direction, scoured the forest since dawn, he wisely brought assistance. Thus it was that Anthony Trent, rudely brought back to an unsympathetic earth, found himself seized, bruised and bound before he had time to @@ -6244,7 +6205,7 @@ what is it? Torture? Boiling oil?"</p> <p>Anthony Trent looked at him searchingly. Of course Hentzi had his purpose in coming here; and that he did not deny the possibility of a Croatian third degree convinced the American that the danger he -anticipated was real and near. So far as Count Michæl's power went in +anticipated was real and near. So far as Count Michæl's power went in his own castle of Radna his prisoner might be in medieval times. Trent was a danger to be nullified and a single life was hardly worthy of consideration in the game the count was playing.</p> @@ -6277,7 +6238,7 @@ cigarettes and the London papers. You can get them for me?"</p> <p>"The razor I dare not," Hentzi said. "The rest you shall have."</p> <p>"Afraid I shall commit suicide? You ought to be glad if I did. It would -save Count Michæl a lot of trouble. That cage there prevents my slitting +save Count Michæl a lot of trouble. That cage there prevents my slitting the throat of a keeper. A child with a gun could poke the barrel through the bars and put me out of business. Come Hentzi, be human. I will not live with whiskers. I swear to do myself no damage or anyone else @@ -6303,7 +6264,7 @@ disposal.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id=" <h3><i>SAINT ANTHONY</i></h3> -<p>Count Michæl returned to his castle after Trent had been for fifteen +<p>Count Michæl returned to his castle after Trent had been for fifteen days a prisoner.</p> <p>The prince and his suite were now safely hidden in a far Carpathian @@ -6321,7 +6282,7 @@ prince whose only use to him would be the furtherance of his political ambitions he would be denounced by the government under which he lived.</p> <p>The easy going, pleasure loving and almost amiable side of Count -Michæl's nature was for the moment put aside. The man who took pride in +Michæl's nature was for the moment put aside. The man who took pride in his swift travelling Lion and his occasional long drive at golf was banished by the need of the moment for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span> possessing certain and wholly accurate knowledge of what Alfred Anthony was and what he had done.</p> @@ -6335,7 +6296,7 @@ who had offended.</p> to the big room in which the Chubbwood safe was placed. Hentzi hovered nervously in the background.</p> -<p>"I have sent for you," Count Michæl said, "so that you may have the +<p>"I have sent for you," Count Michæl said, "so that you may have the opportunity of making a confession."</p> <p>"It is thoughtful of you," Trent told him, "but I have no confession to @@ -6381,10 +6342,10 @@ it did not repose behind those inviolate doors of steel. But it was amazing that the heap of hay had not been disturbed. He supposed it was because of the week of almost continuous rain.</p> -<p>"Where is it?" Count Michæl repeated.</p> +<p>"Where is it?" Count Michæl repeated.</p> <p>"When I saw it was of no value," Trent said, sticking to his chauffeur -rôle, "I burned it."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span></p> +rôle, "I burned it."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span></p> <p>"For the moment we will assume that you speak the truth. Now, how is it you made the mistake of supposing that I had here certain guests of high @@ -6395,7 +6356,7 @@ bring them up from Fiume. I saw coronets on dressing cases and from the way Hentzi bowed and scraped I imagined they were at least royalties in disguise."</p> -<p>"You said," Count Michæl insisted, "'Give my love to the prince.' You +<p>"You said," Count Michæl insisted, "'Give my love to the prince.' You could only have meant one particular personage. You did not speak in generalities you particularized. You said 'The prince.' I warn you you do not help yourself by denials. I am not a patient man. The world knows @@ -6412,14 +6373,14 @@ in peril, they seek to remove it?"</p> <p>"It makes no difference what you call them," Trent exclaimed.</p> -<p>"I am glad you look at it in that light," Count Michæl said, "It does +<p>"I am glad you look at it in that light," Count Michæl said, "It does not make any difference as you will see. I shall convince you of that by relating the sad accident which befell your friend<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span> Captain the Honourable Oswald Hardcastle, formerly of the Royal Dragoons."</p> <p>"My friend?" Trent exclaimed.</p> -<p>"Certainly," the count returned, "Lord Rosecarrel's military attaché at +<p>"Certainly," the count returned, "Lord Rosecarrel's military attaché at Constantinople. Your innocence amuses me. You no doubt know that I owned that great horse Daliborka a winner of the Grand Prix. I was dissatisfied with my trainer and asked friends at the Jockey Club in @@ -6429,7 +6390,7 @@ regiment, but a trainer who was an ex-jockey. He was a good trainer and a great horseman. Daliborka's time trials were marvelous. I entered him for the great races in England. My new trainer was so jealous of his horse he would have no strangers near and none was allowed to follow him -in his rides through the grass meadows." Count Michæl laughed softly, +in his rides through the grass meadows." Count Michæl laughed softly, "Yes, I was deceived, made a fool of, as you have it but I can confess it as I do in your case with the satisfaction that the last laugh, the last trick will be mine. It was my laugh at the last with Captain @@ -6469,7 +6430,7 @@ strength."</p> <p>"You mean," Trent snapped, "you let them murder a man who was probably tied as I am tied now?"</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span></p> -<p>Count Michæl shrugged his shoulders.</p> +<p>Count Michæl shrugged his shoulders.</p> <p>"A man who puts his head in the lion's den must not complain if the lion be hungry. This is my house and I do not welcome thieves. Then there was @@ -6497,7 +6458,7 @@ up your mind to speak the whole truth."</p> <p>"And after that?"</p> -<p>"You will be glad to tell what you know," Count<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> Michæl said grimly. +<p>"You will be glad to tell what you know," Count<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> Michæl said grimly. "Your death will be but a poor triumph to me; that I am willing to admit, but it is the greatest loss that can befall you."</p> @@ -6533,7 +6494,7 @@ offered him now. He believed if he gave his solemn word that the count—in order to retain his hold on Lord Rosecarrel—would give him safe conduct to Fiume.</p> -<p>Yet he was amazed to find that he would not accept Count Michæl's offer. +<p>Yet he was amazed to find that he would not accept Count Michæl's offer. Rather than tell him the truth about the document and so bring disaster again on the family of the woman he loved he was content to give up his life. Perhaps there was another reason which brought him to this way of @@ -6556,7 +6517,7 @@ of chagrin."</p> <p>"This is a sporting way of doing things, isn't it?" he exclaimed.</p> -<p>"Until tomorrow," Count Michæl smiled.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p> +<p>"Until tomorrow," Count Michæl smiled.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p> <p>It was dark when the prisoner reached his cell. An oil lamp lit the bare room. It was hung on a nail in the little cage out of reach of any @@ -6591,7 +6552,7 @@ along the flagged passage.</p> <p>Wringing his hands Hentzi, the prey of many apprehensions, left her alone with the prisoner. It chanced that Pauline was aware of some petty thefts on the secretary's part, defalcations which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span> would destroy Count -Michæl's faith in his probity. It was a threat of exposure which forced +Michæl's faith in his probity. It was a threat of exposure which forced him to bring her here.</p> <p>Trent rose when she came in and offered his visitor the single rush @@ -6629,7 +6590,7 @@ troubles. I am very weary; there may be very unpleasant hours before me and I need sleep. It cannot be such a great triumph to see me in this cell?"</p> -<p>"Why do you stay here?" she demanded. "I know what Count Michæl has told +<p>"Why do you stay here?" she demanded. "I know what Count Michæl has told you. I know you have only to give him that piece of paper and your word of honor as a gentleman and you are free to go. It is very fortunate for you. Those two friends who also came are dead."</p> @@ -6650,7 +6611,7 @@ chauffeur he will be all the more jealous."</p> <p>"You cannot deceive me," she said tenderly.</p> -<p>"If you did not come here to speak for Count Michæl, may I ask then for +<p>"If you did not come here to speak for Count Michæl, may I ask then for what purpose?"</p> <p>"I want to warn you not to keep that paper from him."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span></p> @@ -6677,7 +6638,7 @@ to win."</p> <p>"You don't understand," she cried, "it is because they will force you to tell if they cannot find it. I am speaking no more than the truth. Cannot you see that you have mixed yourself in high matters and are a -menace to Count Michæl? He must know and he will know."</p> +menace to Count Michæl? He must know and he will know."</p> <p>She saw his mouth tighten.</p> @@ -6735,7 +6696,7 @@ she had attained international fame as a skater she grew more selective in her affairs. She was the rage for several years and but for the suicide of a Serene Highness would never have been banished from Berlin.</p> -<p>Count Michæl Temesvar was an old admirer. The war swept away Pauline's +<p>Count Michæl Temesvar was an old admirer. The war swept away Pauline's possessions and there was no manager to engage her at a living wage.</p> <p>At twenty-eight she had known many capitals, enjoyed great success and @@ -6973,7 +6934,7 @@ possible. Then he waited for some message from Pauline.</p> <p>Hentzi came into the cell at five.</p> -<p>"Count Michæl will see you at ten tonight. My friend, I warn you to be +<p>"Count Michæl will see you at ten tonight. My friend, I warn you to be wise and acknowledge defeat."</p> <p>"That's not my idea of wisdom," Trent grinned so cheerfully that Hentzi @@ -7033,11 +6994,11 @@ thought from him as futile. There was still another trump to play.</p> <p>They led him, as he hoped, to the great room where the safe was, the room he had searched so carefully.</p> -<p>In a carved oak chair at the head of a table sat Count Michæl. Pauline +<p>In a carved oak chair at the head of a table sat Count Michæl. Pauline was there sitting in a chaise longue smoking a cigarette in a very long amber and gold holder. She did not turn her face from the count to the prisoner until he had stood there silent for a full minute. Then she -looked at him coldly, sneeringly, and said something to Count Michæl +looked at him coldly, sneeringly, and said something to Count Michæl which brought a peal of laughter from him.</p> <p>It seemed to Trent that he had never seen the two on such wholly @@ -7084,7 +7045,7 @@ Croatia as cautious as he?"</p> <p>Pauline did not reply to him. Instead she spoke to the count in German.</p> <p>"Pay no attention to him," she counselled. "I know that you are brave, -my Michæl. Let him laugh at you for a coward if he wishes. I would not +my Michæl. Let him laugh at you for a coward if he wishes. I would not have him hurt you or frighten you for the world."</p> <p>"Frighten <i>me</i>!" cried the count, "Hurt <i>me</i>!" He flung a little key @@ -7095,7 +7056,7 @@ across the table to Hentzi. "Take them off," he commanded.</p> <p>"This should never have been done," he declared. Then he turned to Hentzi. "I need a cigarette."</p> -<p>"I did not bring you here to smoke," Count Michæl said acidly. "I +<p>"I did not bring you here to smoke," Count Michæl said acidly. "I brought you here to interrogate you. Remember that."</p> <p>"I have been without a decent smoke for nearly two weeks," Trent @@ -7108,7 +7069,7 @@ robbed him of the privilege of recrimination. The two guards not understanding a word of the conversation could not deny Trent's statements.</p> -<p>Count Michæl Temesvar looked closely at his former chauffeur. He was +<p>Count Michæl Temesvar looked closely at his former chauffeur. He was standing on the rich red<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> rug between the two windows. He was biting his lips; his face twitched and his fingers worked nervously. It was plain that he suffered as drug takers do when deprived of their poisons.</p> @@ -7133,7 +7094,7 @@ men may have to shoot. You understand?"</p> <p>"Perfectly," Trent said growing more affable. "I even give you my <i>parole d'honneur</i> not to go near the doors. Why rush on certain death?"</p> -<p>"You are growing sensible," Count Michæl said smiling. "I knew it would +<p>"You are growing sensible," Count Michæl said smiling. "I knew it would come. As you say, why rush on certain death? It is foolish. More, it is unnecessary and to do so wastes one's energy. I have not yet had time to learn your name and rank but I am treating with you as an equal."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span></p> @@ -7178,10 +7139,10 @@ all proportion to its value. Trent knew little of the great eternal European game of politics. For a few moments in Paris the New World had its glance at the complicated working but forgot it when booming trade held sway and salesmen took the place of diplomats. The elimination of -the new Foreign Secretary meant a great deal to Count Michæl. The other +the new Foreign Secretary meant a great deal to Count Michæl. The other knowledge which Trent stored in his mind was equally dangerous but there were others who could attend to that. No matter what part Anthony Trent -played the count had assigned him the rôle of the defeated.</p> +played the count had assigned him the rôle of the defeated.</p> <p>"It happens to be the truth," Trent returned.</p> @@ -7190,7 +7151,7 @@ antagonism to the stranger was swept away by her anxiety for his safety. Her heart thrilled to see him standing there, debonair, smiling, dominating. It seemed madness to her, this avowal of success.</p> -<p>"You are learning wisdom," Count Michæl commented.</p> +<p>"You are learning wisdom," Count Michæl commented.</p> <p>"We may define the term differently," Trent smiled. "I did not burn the paper."</p> @@ -7224,7 +7185,7 @@ likely aids to future needs.</p> <p>Every pair of eyes in that great room was turned on him. Sissek and Ferencz understanding no word only saw that he was unmoved, unruffled, -almost joyous in the presence of the great Count Michæl. They could not +almost joyous in the presence of the great Count Michæl. They could not understand it at all. They only hated him the more.</p> <p>Hentzi was rather thrilled with the spectacle. Here was a young and @@ -7232,7 +7193,7 @@ handsome man of a type he had longed to be, no doubt the bearer of an historic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> title, who in the presence of great peril dared to laugh at the head of all the Temesvars.</p> -<p>Count Michæl felt the constricting collar that now almost choked him. +<p>Count Michæl felt the constricting collar that now almost choked him. These other two who had preceded Alfred Anthony met death bravely but they acknowledged failure. But this man was different. It was almost as though he thought himself the victor. What else would have nerved him to @@ -7251,7 +7212,7 @@ suffer unless her woman's wit could aid him. Knowing the count's vanity so well she perceived that every moment of this unperturbed attitude added to the severity of the punishment his prisoner would receive.</p> -<p>"You are going to fetch it!" Count Michæl said thickly. "Is it permitted +<p>"You are going to fetch it!" Count Michæl said thickly. "Is it permitted to ask how and when?"</p> <p>"By all means," Trent said graciously. "I am going to fetch it now and @@ -7303,7 +7264,7 @@ its exits. Such as were not barred had servants near them. It was clear that Alfred Anthony was concealed somewhere in the vast building. His capture was only the matter of time, the result of careful searching.</p> -<p>This search was gone about systematically Count Michæl directing his men +<p>This search was gone about systematically Count Michæl directing his men personally. It was the count's theory that one of his bullets, the first shot at which Hentzi had screamed because of its nearness to his head, had wounded the fleeing man, and that he would sooner or later be traced @@ -7410,7 +7371,7 @@ agility as the accelerated Lion passed him on its way to the pier.</p> her anchorage. Everything would have been comfortably done but for the cries of the pursuing police.</p> -<p>A groom of Count Michæl's had ridden a fast horse into Agram and the +<p>A groom of Count Michæl's had ridden a fast horse into Agram and the Fiume authorities were bidden apprehend a thieving chauffeur driving a blue and silver Lion. There was so liberal a reward that the police force was almost disorganized in contemplating it. Pursuers among @@ -7545,7 +7506,7 @@ It was rather a lark, he thought.</p> <p>"By the way," said Trent suddenly, "if they wig-wagged you from shore that you were harbouring a man supposed to have stolen a Lion automobile -from Count Michæl Temesvar the man who is at the bottom of the plot +from Count Michæl Temesvar the man who is at the bottom of the plot would you feel bound to deliver him up to justice? I ask because I think some sort of police are on the way here now."</p> @@ -7557,7 +7518,7 @@ If they can overhaul my old dear you may ask me that question again."</p> <hr class="tb" /> <p>When it was certain that Trent had made good his escape the black rage -that took hold of Count Michæl plunged his household into a distress +that took hold of Count Michæl plunged his household into a distress that showed itself on every troubled face except that of Pauline.</p> <p>She was not easily able to conceal her joy in Anthony Trent's good @@ -7578,7 +7539,7 @@ her firm white throat, when there was a knock upon the door.</p> <p>"Tell him I will not see him," Pauline yawned.</p> -<p>"He has an important message from Count Michæl," said the girl.</p> +<p>"He has an important message from Count Michæl," said the girl.</p> <p>"Which will wait until tomorrow," Pauline said lazily.</p> @@ -7611,7 +7572,7 @@ floor of the castle.</p> to the fear he might by some over zealous action provoke the wrath of the man he served. Probably he had not heard her question.</p> -<p>She found Count Michæl in a big bare room, octagonal in shape and knew +<p>She found Count Michæl in a big bare room, octagonal in shape and knew it must be the tower which stood out boldly on the western corner of the castle.</p> @@ -7620,7 +7581,7 @@ castle.</p> <p>She had no fear of the man who ruled his people as an autocrat. It is not in the nature of such women as Pauline to eliminate a certain feeling of contempt for the power of men whom they can sway by whim and -artifice. Michæl, Count Temesvar, was terrible to such as he hated, and +artifice. Michæl, Count Temesvar, was terrible to such as he hated, and a political force of sinister strength, but to the green eyed woman who looked at him mockingly he was one of the weak and pliable pawns on life's board.</p> @@ -7648,7 +7609,7 @@ Why did you thank God when my enemy escaped?"</p> prayer almost at his ear but she hoped in the excitement he had not heard.</p> -<p>"You are dreaming Michæl," she exclaimed. "Why should I say that?"</p> +<p>"You are dreaming Michæl," she exclaimed. "Why should I say that?"</p> <p>"Another thing," the count went on. "This man would hardly have escaped if the electric lights had not gone out." Abruptly the count turned to @@ -7659,7 +7620,7 @@ which I do not comprehend that sometimes the light goes off for a few moments. It was the thunder storm or some atmospherical condition. I do not remember."</p> -<p>"Heaven seems to fight for him," Count Michæl commented. "First the +<p>"Heaven seems to fight for him," Count Michæl commented. "First the lights extinguished and then someone in this house of mine who gives him keys and aids his escape. The garage door opens itself to him and lo, he disappears."</p> @@ -7692,7 +7653,7 @@ again flooded the room."</p> she was a stranger. For the first time a thrill of uneasiness took hold of her.</p> -<p>"Is hinting the right word?" Count Michæl retorted.</p> +<p>"Is hinting the right word?" Count Michæl retorted.</p> <p>"I might have done it," Pauline admitted, "I remember when I heard the crash of the broken glass jumping up. I probably put my hand out to @@ -7702,7 +7663,7 @@ unfortunate!"</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 2 <p>"Again," said the count, "I must question your right use of words. You said 'unfortunate,' did you not?"</p> -<p>"There is one other thing which has puzzled me," Count Michæl went on. +<p>"There is one other thing which has puzzled me," Count Michæl went on. "Peter Sissek's wife thinks she saw you come back to the garage two mornings back soon after sunrise. She was wrong?"</p> @@ -7724,7 +7685,7 @@ word that the information did not come from you."</p> <p>"You have it," she said lightly. "Now as that is all I shall go to my room. This hideous place chills me."</p> -<p>"Pauline," Count Michæl said sternly, "I have given you every chance to +<p>"Pauline," Count Michæl said sternly, "I have given you every chance to tell the truth. You have lied. It is in your nature to lie but I thought that one of your training would know when the time came to speak the truth. Such an hour is at hand. The man was your lover. You helped him @@ -7732,7 +7693,7 @@ to escape.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></s your cause too—because you are a light of love, a thing who will accept a purchase price and then play false."</p> -<p>"My poor Michæl," she said commiseratingly, "you drink too much of your +<p>"My poor Michæl," she said commiseratingly, "you drink too much of your own plum brandy. Tonight you are crazy. Tomorrow I shall have you begging for a smile from me. As it is I find you tedious. Hentzi, open the door."</p> @@ -7742,20 +7703,20 @@ the door."</p> <p>She shrugged her shoulders. Neither of the men judged from her manner the fear that began to enwrap her.</p> -<p>"Yours will be a cold smile tomorrow," Count Michæl said, "and I, for +<p>"Yours will be a cold smile tomorrow," Count Michæl said, "and I, for one, shall not envy it. You have betrayed me but in the end I have triumphed. They have caught him Pauline. They are bringing him back to you. Do you think you will be there to aid him when he is my prisoner again?"</p> -<p>If Count Michæl wished for tribute to his victory it was his now.</p> +<p>If Count Michæl wished for tribute to his victory it was his now.</p> <p>The confidence left her face. She was white and smileless. The courage and bold carriage of her splendid body seemed taken from her. She leaned heavily on the bare table. Hentzi, a prey always to emotion, could have wept for her forgetting she was his master's enemy.</p> -<p>To Count Michæl her attitude had the effect of whipping into white heat +<p>To Count Michæl her attitude had the effect of whipping into white heat his repressed and savage rage. He had tried to believe that he still stood<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span> first in her affection. It was the vanity of the successful man whose desire has outlived his fascination.</p> @@ -7817,18 +7778,18 @@ fear of pursuit."</p> <p>The color came again into Pauline's cheeks and the drooping, broken figure grew tall, erect and commanding.</p> -<p>"So you lied to me, Michæl," she said slowly. "You were ashamed to admit +<p>"So you lied to me, Michæl," she said slowly. "You were ashamed to admit that he had beaten you. But I should not have lost my faith in him so easily." She turned to Hentzi. "Thank you my friend. You have made me happy."</p> <p>"Silence," the count cried. "Prepare yourself."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span></p> -<p>"You cannot hurt me now, Michæl," she laughed. Hentzi thought she looked +<p>"You cannot hurt me now, Michæl," she laughed. Hentzi thought she looked like a young girl, splendid and triumphant with the wine of youth. "At most you can take my life. As I can never have him whom I love I do not mind. Perhaps I am a little grateful to you. Why does your hand tremble, -Michæl?"</p> +Michæl?"</p> <p>She held herself at this last moment with a brave insolence. Her head was carried high and the count knew she was laughing at him for having @@ -7989,7 +7950,7 @@ success would spell disaster to the one who had sent him.</p> <p>"Briefly it is this," Trent began, "Prince William, of Misselbach, was not drowned although a real corpse was buried. He is at the present time -hiding and Count Michæl Temesvar is planning to put him upon the throne +hiding and Count Michæl Temesvar is planning to put him upon the throne of Hungary. I have seen him with my own eyes a dozen times although he was not aware of it. I had the luck to get a list of names of the prime movers in it. I could not keep the paper so I memorized them and wrote @@ -8049,7 +8010,7 @@ his profession."</p> all?"</p> <p>"I went," said Anthony Trent, "because Lord Rosecarrel, who knows Count -Michæl and mistrusts him, asked me to go. He had an idea that I might be +Michæl and mistrusts him, asked me to go. He had an idea that I might be useful. I went and I think I can assure him I have succeeded in what he desired me to do."</p> @@ -8456,381 +8417,6 @@ eyes of Anthony Trent who had once been the Master Criminal.</p> <h4>THE END</h4> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Secret of the Silver Car, by Wyndham Martyn - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECRET OF THE SILVER CAR *** - -***** This file should be named 40372-h.htm or 40372-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/3/7/40372/ - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire. 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