"I don't believe you—nor will he."
"Believe it or not as you please—it is true; if a priest of the Holy Church can make man and woman husband and wife."
He swung away with that, and I watched him cross the hall with quick, firm steps, and enter the room where Colonel Katona and Karl were waiting.
I was glad to be spared the ordeal of that interview, and was still standing thoughtfully at the closed door on the other side of which that scene of the drama was being enacted, when a carriage drove up rapidly.
I knew it was General von Erlanger and the Duke, and I told the servant to show them into one of the larger rooms in the front of the house.
CHAPTER XXVII
"THIS IS GARETH"
I was in the act of going to the Duke and my fingers were all but on the handle of the door, when I recalled the idea which had flashed upon me an hour before when with Gareth, and instantly I resolved to act upon it.
Running back into the room where I had been with Count Gustav, I wrote two lines to his Excellency.