" He made a move to detach
it, and I caught his hand.
"Please don't do that. I am extremely irritable; and I might throw you
out of the window. I can get back to my hotel without guidance."
"I am going to see you to your lodgings," asserted the Count, rubbing
his wrist, for I had put some power into my grasp.
"Still, I might take it into my head to throw you out."
"You'd better not try."
"Are you afraid?"
"Yes. There would be a scandal. Not that I would care about the death
of a miserable adventurer, but it might possibly reflect upon the
virtue of her Highness the Princess Hildegarde."
"What do you want?" I growled.
"I want to see if your passports are proper so that you will have no
difficulty in passing over the frontier."
"Perhaps it would be just as well to wake the American Minister?" I
suggested.
"Not at all. If you were found dead there might be a possibility of
that. But I should explain to him, and he would understand that it was
a case without diplomatic precedent."
"Well?"
"You are to leave this country at once, sir; that is, if you place any
value upon your life.
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