The Secret Witness
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Gibbs George. The Secret Witness
CHAPTER I. JUNE 12, 1914
CHAPTER II. COURT SECRETS
CHAPTER III. THE HABSBURG RAVEN
CHAPTER IV. SECRET INFORMATION
CHAPTER V. TWO INTRUDERS
CHAPTER VI. HERR WINDT
CHAPTER VII. THE GREEN LIMOUSINE
CHAPTER VIII. AN ESCAPE AND A CAPTURE
CHAPTER IX. CAPTAIN GORITZ
CHAPTER X. DIAMOND CUTS DIAMOND
CHAPTER XI. THE MAN IN BLACK
CHAPTER XII. FLIGHT
CHAPTER XIII. TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XIV. THE HARIM
CHAPTER XV. THE LIGHTED WINDOWS
CHAPTER XVI. THE BEG OF RATAJ
CHAPTER XVII. THE MAN IN ARMOR
CHAPTER XVIII. NUMBER 28
CHAPTER XIX. DISGUISE
CHAPTER XX. RENWICK QUESTIONS
CHAPTER XXI. AN IMPERSONATION
CHAPTER XXII. THE NEEDLE IN THE HAYSTACK
CHAPTER XXIII. SCHLOSS SZOLNOK
CHAPTER XXIV. PRISONER AND CAPTIVE
CHAPTER XXV. THE RIFT IN THE ROCK
CHAPTER XXVI. THE DEATH GRIP
CHAPTER XXVII. BESIEGED
IN REGARD TO THE EVIDENCE IN THE CASE
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Hugh Renwick lay flat upon the coping of the wall for a moment peering up and down the road until sure at last that the way was clear, when he let himself down and walked rapidly in the direction of the village. The events of the last hour were of a nature to disturb the equanimity of an existence less well ordered than his. The winning of the Countess Marishka, an achievement upon which he had set his whole soul for many uncertain weeks in which hope and fear had fought a daily battle in his heart—that in itself had been enough to convince him that the gods looked upon him with favor—but this other coup de foudre! Whatever the means by which his information had been obtained, the mere possession of it and the revelation of it to his Ambassador was a diplomatic achievement of the highest importance. There had long been rumors of an entente between Archduke and Kaiser, but this! He rubbed his eyes to make sure that he was awake.
Hugh Renwick was merely the average Englishman of good family and wealth, who because of his education in a German university had found the offer of the post of Vienna singularly attractive. He had filled his position with circumspection, if not with brilliancy, and had made himself sufficiently popular in court circles to be sure that if not a triumphant success in the drudgery of the office, he was at least not altogether a social failure. Good looking, wealthy, talented though he was, it was something indeed to have won Marishka Strahni, who, apart from her high position in Vienna and the success of a season, was, as he well knew, the finest girl in all Austria. Even yet he doubted his good fortune. He had come to Konopisht, where the girl was visiting the Duchess of Hohenberg, who had been a childhood friend of her mother's. As everyone in Vienna knew, Sophie Chotek was ineligible for the high position she occupied as consort of the Heir Presumptive. Though a member of an ancient Bohemian family, that of Chotek and Wognin, the law of the Habsburg's that archdukes may marry only those of equal rank, forbade that the Duchess of Hohenberg and her children should share the position of husband and father. She had been snubbed upon all the occasions of her appearance at court functions, and had at last retired to the Archduke's estates at Konopisht, where she led the secluded life of the ebenburtige, still chafing, rumor had it, and more than ever jealous and ambitious for the future of the children.
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"You may speak freely, child. There is no one here who hasn't the interests of my country at heart."
Marishka glanced around swiftly, her pulses throbbing. Prince Montenuovo stood beside the desk, immovable.
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