All this time she
knew that he was standing just where she had left him, like a statue,
awaiting her command. At last she faced him resolutely.
"You will receive instructions as to your duties here from the guard at
the stairs. When you hear the hall clock strike the hour of two in the
morning go into the chapel, but do not let anyone see you or
suspect. You know where it is. The door will be unlocked."
"Am I not to see you again?" he asked, and she did not think him
properly depressed.
"Yes," she answered, after a pause that seemed like an eternity, and he
went quietly, silently away.
CHAPTER XXIV
BENEATH THE GROUND
While Baldos was standing guard in the long, lofty hallway the Iron
Count was busy with the machinations which were calculated to result in
a startling upheaval with the break of a new day. He prepared and swore
to the charges preferred against Baldos. They were despatched to the
princess for her perusal in the morning. Then he set about preparing the
vilest accusations against Beverly Calhoun. In his own handwriting and
over his own signature he charged her with complicity in the betrayal of
Graustark, influenced by the desires of the lover who masqueraded as her
protege. At some length he dwelt upon the well-laid plot of the spy and
his accomplice. He told of their secret meetings, their outrages against
the dignity of the court, and their unmistakable animosity toward
Graustark.
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