“I don’t wonder that you Evangelicals get yourselves banished as you do,” said Cyril, smiling. “The ordinary Scythian view of diplomacy would certainly not agree with yours.”
“You imply that ours is the English view? Then may I hope that you will act on English and not on Scythian principles when you return to Thracia?”
“Would you have me bind myself by a pledge, Princess?”
“Not unless you wish it. I only ask you to look back on the time you spent at Bellaviste, and the means you used to force your brother to remain there, and to ask yourself, Was it worth while?”
“Considering that the result was failure, I think it was not,” said Cyril, meditatively. “But I do not say that it would not have been worth while if I had succeeded.”
“And what would your success have been worth?” asked the Princess. “If I were you, Lord Cyril, I would thank God night and morning that the end of your enterprise was failure.”
THE END.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.
This book is part of the author’s “Balkan Series.” The full series, in order, being: