He smiled, and it was a new smile—sweet, hopeful, if not merry.
With this silent expression of determination and trust we settled the matter.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
“What’s failure or success to me?
I have subdued my life to the one purpose.”
Eugen sent a telegram from Emmerich to Frau Mittendorf to reassure her as to my safety. At four in the afternoon we left that town, refreshed and rehatted, to reach Elberthal at six.
I told Eugen that we were going away the next day to stay a short time at a place called Lahnburg.
He started and looked at me.
“Lahnburg!—I—when you are there—nein, das ist—You are going to Lahnburg?”
“Yes. Why not?”