"It was for that I asked him to wait. I have been thinking of it. He will go to Warsaw and tell the lady that she may obtain her father's liberty upon a condition. Let her make a direct appeal to the Government—and we will consider it. Of course you intend an immediate departure—you are not contemplating a delay, Herr Gessner?"
"Delay—am I the man to delay? He shall go to-morrow by the first train."
A smile hovered upon the Count's face in spite of himself.
"In a week," he was saying to himself, "Lois Boriskoff shall be flogged in the Schusselburg."
In truth, the whip was the weapon he liked best—when women were to be schooled.