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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 188, 6 September 1909, Page 4

"Copyrißht." * SEIiSATiONAL A~—' G? LOVE A;! n A n ' , ! 7 HTH nr . r.y r.wr. ;■?:..•■; '.;:t.

TAUT 3. cif aptku w. "Xow. my dear countess, do sit down and calm yourself." I said, merely because 1 could think of nothing prettier. "Yes. Hut t«»ll me whom did you *rr?" she said, this tlni!? resting her pretty ungloved hand on my shoulder. "Oh. a few people of various kinds." "Anybody you knew ? Anybody yon have w;i before ? Tell tiiev quickly » " "Xo ; except n Frenchman t travHß»tl with yesterday." "IV Risque ? " "Well. hj« did not mention hi.'t nam" to me. nor did I ask him for it. He was n very pleasant agreeable p« rson nnd " 1 had forgotten for the moment he wat one of the countcss's admirers. Lot the terror with which she repealed his name recalled it to me. Kit her he was not a favoured suitor or she had suiir other reason for getting away from him at this particular time. She sank l>a«k in her chair with a gasp of despair. "*riv» he |;a* Invit with you?" she said.

"Yes. I travelled with him." "tthsif d»d you tell him ? Tell me everything*" "I dfcd not t-tl him sh.it I had mef vim last night." I said, d •t-Tfmn-d to ret?eve I,>t mi ml nt iiri> >• on the point which dori'M■. f'- .*» agitated h-r. laitc.t.l of rsill»:tis; her. however. my itsi-furanr.* only appcare-J to in-cr.-a*-'* her rifr»o*tly..

• t!nt whaE d>l *f»u talk about ? Te-ri ««.• everything—every word you ram rem •mtver."* • I d»> nr«f think your name was r.i'iM-i' than rnstiolly men* iouctl." I "t.ltd. *'Tell me everything." sh«» repealed impat sent ly. A.«t faithfully as I r«*ut«l rememtier I st,e-trhed ««»i« ih.» course of our reniVef-sation IHitivn Pari?* and Ilerlin. "Vh" count«'*>*<. den«lly p.ile. |isteiHil to th' ml. and then watched IH? r;ir,.'f»lMy ff»r a v. hile. "H !■:■*• t'..t*e • |l (J f;||.. f " s*te jfiMi-mTr-'fl "Mi'. IJas'.'t.ogne. ilo you krvftv what you {»»1»| i£>.•»* mtr,;i'.' "- "Vnthiri'g tti«t I regret." 1 :-«fd reB.i .suriugty. "Von have Ivdd hie.». f.r>t l> . I»»at vnH are in the r.er-»i.v i.| ihe Itrilish Un'V .'rnninil. tltai > ""I h.tve rear' itftn the \mh;v ; sa«h»r in Paris to the Anrntrv-aft'or in H-riEik." "'Nm. Nt: I •«;!>- mentiond the Anvf'a*. ,! -»dor capitally, and he was n.»vt fr teikfrg at the linv. " "'!>.» nc" deceive y ovir>«'tf. IV lii.s..frts« mi.<..«- s You have told him moreover that y»»n are shni.iiitmcil to diplomat i«* fluty on lihnlf "< your country at the Court r»f St Ptrr btirsj that you met me I he Fe " "And what if I iliil ? " •£»!> Pis»|ti,. w.r-i sftTuling l»■'i«»i»l run th- »»rEi.-r itight v.h.-u you vvhi-> pr J my tith*. His j.u«kptei«»ns are tov. ~.;vifin..l II • knows lliat I a»n u "i inw'r of the I(t inn Court. iir t thi*f ,v : » are an of the |'.rrtt-"i: l!(iV,-H'.M"hl." '{V Iff t r;,- tin-* at the moling the etfi. r ni.s;h» .* " I repeated in w. kf\ ►■ --tEftt .surely I ".houbl have rei,i fi r ;• d hi-m if he ha.l beea «!»■ • -;rtn ■ rr.'U as m»- Mhviv-traVe!ler'.»" "\ ..!• at n"l. I»e Kisr.ue Je.rV.-s |»o----th'!'-.r to lie lists, a different ir^'i 1 ■>■ b-r capital, and alvvayi i:ia%'* a p«>itsl of keeping in «he I,a ' grimivl until hj" knows people thoroughly. |l>- will l>«- all '.h-in-ire in a r;v>' »h-n l:« lind - he ha* Uvn deteived by me." "IV.'eived by Vull ".' " *- "V>'.». t*an"t you gu«- s what my posit inn is ? "I am utterly at a b» -s to hazard tth' remotest f\plnr.at i«.f».. I hav»hen trying to under.*(and matter.* eVer r.iace I bfl y«ill Ihe nlher night, srnd the r»tore I endeav..isr t«> char the ihii-; np the more of a muddle it s. i m.». to.bevimi-. Were you like myself. sin»ply seeking adventure the oth"r night, or " t paused awkwardly, not knowing exactly how to pill it. The collate..- f ronjpily came to my relief "In the present condition of nfiatrs if i.-» n-«e«<«ary that I should tell jt.n." she said : anil liefore she provetl d way further, she took another ii.reful bu»k in every compartment rtad tipeind the door of coinmunicn(:.>(i at each end of the corridor (hr «r.g made sure thai nol«o«ly was !».*;?• t*«fig *he sat down very close to in' n;td in a low whisjier said : •"I a:u of the Dowager's secret serV ['■•,»." 1 knew the pari the Dowager was p'av i; -; in the politics fif the land of her ndo|»" ton. but it was unexj»ectefl news t > i»i' that she had her own Secret Service Corps. "Y»»u may not understand what fi-al means." tho countess went f.i. I know your Knglish waja are dift• t•nt to f*ur.*. Your men lend [i.',to'fitl |»rosperous lives, your women have only to interest their hus-'■.i-il'. and their country loyal -td>,i-ris. In Itussia our men are .n ".»!. pn<| our women- must play ft•■• carl of their |>re*»-»rver-> M> {toyit Vtstress for thirty years was Ihe wife of a man whov life was hang in on a single thread every day and hoar of his existence. She is the mother of a man who at this very moment is the object of plots and counter-plots maturing in every capital of the clvdlsed worbj. ||is enemies work in secret. The common people must lie held in check. The country is overrun with men of what you possibly may consider progressive id a*, but so long as Russia lasts so long must Russian autocracy be sacred." . At home in Kngland.'l am all foi n,.. r ■ roper prerogatives of rank and ivifii.iei\v. Church and Stale and 'h estates of the realm ami all i ha' sort of thing. I have leen -am.;.' to re-, re. and although 1 ha'-- pokfv::, ii I liv-"| inr.re in Knghitvl I stippo=..-» I should be fighting

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