18/27 But hate burned fiercely in the breast against the man who could compel him to lower his eyes. Some day he would pay back that glance. He twisted the talk into other channels with his usual adroitness, but all the while there was bubbling in his mind the news that these two men had met before. The history of Hildegarde von Mitter was known to him. But how much did she know, or this man Cathewe? |