Part 25 (2/2)
”What a rare and blessed disposition!” said he, holding the door for her and bowing again
”I knohat I know,” she cried to hiive so to know it too, Count Rupert!”
”It's very likely, for, by Heaven, girls knoonderful things!” smiled Rupert; but he shut the door and caain ”Come, tell me, how did they make a fool of you, or why did you make a fool of me, cousin?”
While Rischenheim related how he had been trapped and tricked at the Castle of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau ood breakfast He offered no interruption and no comments, but when Rudolf Rassendyll came into the story he looked up for an instant with a quick jerk of his head and a sudden light in his eyes The end of Rischenheiain
”Ah, well, the snare was cleverly set,” he said ”I don't wonder you fell into it”
”And now you? What happened to you?” asked Rischenheie which was not your e, I obeyed your directions which were not your directions”
”You went to the lodge?”
”Certainly”
”And you found Sapt there?--Anybody else?”
”Why, not Sapt at all”
”Not Sapt? But surely they laid a trap for you?”
”Very possibly, but the jaws didn't bite” Rupert crossed his legs and lit a cigarette
”But what did you find?”
”I? I found the king's forester, and the king's boar-hound, and--well, I found the king hie?”
”You weren't so wrong as you thought, were you?”
”But surely Sapt, or Bernenstein, or some one ith him?”
”As I tell you, his forester and his boar-hound No other ave hi with excitement
”Alas, no, my dear cousin I threw the box at hiet to that stage of the conversation at which I had intended to produce the letter”
”But why not--why not?”
Rupert rose to his feet, and, co just opposite to where Rischenheim sat, balanced hi the ash fro pleasantly
”Have you noticed,” he asked, ”that my coat's torn?”