CHAPTER XXXII
BACK TO RUSSIA ONCE MORETwo days later I saw Lord Southbourne, and resigned my position as a member of his staff. I felt myself mean in one way, when I thought of how he had backed me right through that murder business,--and before it, when he set Freeman on my track.
He showed neither surprise nor annoyance; in fact he seemed, if anything, more nonchalant than usual.
"Well, of course you know your own affairs best. I haven't any use for men who cultivate interests outside their work; and you've done the straight thing in resigning now that you 'here a duty divided do perceive,' as I heard a man say the other day."
"Von Eckhardt!" I exclaimed.
"Guessed it first time," he drawled. "Could any one else in this world garble quotations so horribly? If he would only give 'em i
