You may kill me here or
strangle me or stick a knife into me, if you will be better satisfied
that way; or you may kill him and hide his body in these hills; but, by
God, there will be no escape for you! The highest powers of my government
know that I am here; Baron von Marhof knows that I am here. I have an
engagement to breakfast with Baron von Marhof at his house at eight
o'clock in the morning, and if I am not there every agency of the
government will be put to work to find you, Mr. Jules Chauvenet, and
these other scoundrels who travel with you."
"You are violent, my dear sir--" began Durand, whose wits were coming
back to him much quicker than Chauvenet's.
"I am not as violent as I shall be if I get a troop of cavalry from Port
Myer down here and hunt you like rabbits through the hills. And I advise
you to cable Winkelried at Vienna that the game is all off!"
Chauvenet suddenly jumped toward the table, the revolver still swinging
at arm's length.
"You know too much!"
"I don't know any more than Armitage, and Baron von Marhof and my father,
and the Honorable Secretary of State, to say nothing of the equally
Honorable Secretary of War.
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