As
they will pass by this way I don't see how they can avoid calling at
Hidvar. In fact I have invited the magistrate who commands the corps to
make Hidvar the centre of his operations and if he is a sensible man he
will accept my invitation. The name of my guest I have not yet
mentioned," continued Leonard with easy levity, "it is Szilard Vamhidy,
a justice of the peace of the county of Arad--really a very nice young
man."
Henrietta became as white as a statue.
"You will greatly oblige me, my dear Henrietta, if you will do your best
to make our guest feel quite at home in our house. But you are a
sensible woman, so I have no need to press the point. Let me kiss your
hand--_au revoir_!"
Henrietta watched him go out, watched him get into his carriage and bowl
off and then began to weep and hide her head among the cushions that
nobody might hear her.
They are pursuing Fatia Negra! ... Szilard Vamhidy is pursuing Fatia
Negra!
He will come hither, he will enter this very castle. Leonard himself has
invited him!
He will certainly come to see his former love once more. The thought was
terrible!
But it must not, it should not happen.
Leonard himself had invited Vamhidy to his castle. This man relied too
much on the terror of a poor timid woman, he built too much on that
nimbus of terror which made him so horribly unassailable in her eyes.
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