Count Zarka: A Romance

Count Zarka: A Romance

The young man sitting opposite to him smiled. At least, Excellency, let me hear it. May not the man before whom the danger will lie be the best judge of whether he can undertake it. As to the delicacy involved I have no fear on that score, so far as you are concerned, my dear Herr Galabin. In fact you are the only man in the Bureau whom I would trust to undertake the affair. The only question is, he continued, as Galabin bowed in acknowledgment of the compliment, whether I have any right to risk a valuable life in an undertaking where the very courage which points you out as the right man for the business is likely to minimize the dangers, dangers[8] which I cannot disguise from myself may be very great. The Minister leaned back in his chair thoughtfully stroking his mouth with his long white fingers. Shortly, it is this, he said. The mystery surrounding the extraordinary disappearance of Prince Roel of Rapsberg deepens every day. I say deepens, because, as you know, the agents of our Bureau, all the machinery which we have set working to elucidate it, have given us absolutely blank results. Had it been a mere piece of eccentricity on the Princes part, the result, as has been hinted, of disappointment in a love affair, we must have found him, or at least some clue to the direction in which he had disappeared. A man, let alone a prince, cannot vanish from the face of the earth without leaving some trace. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67905
Author: Magnay, William
Release Date: Apr 23, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Ward Lock and Co Limited
Publication Date: 1903
Publisher Country: United Kingdom

Contributors

Illustrator: Greiffenhagen, Maurice, 1862-1931