This morning I resigned. I am
wearing my uniform, I don't doubt, for the last time."
"And that, although you fought in the cause of freedom! Although
you have fought honorably in an earlier war! Is it not horrible!"
"I could not do otherwise," said he simply. "I have no regrets."
"But don't you see,"--she turned upon him suddenly--"it only leaves
you all the more free!"
"I can not understand you."
"Will it not give you and your friend, Lieutenant Kammerer here,
precisely the opportunity you've wished?"
"Still I do not follow you."
"My dear Countess," ventured the German, "I'll go anywhere under
your orders. You may be sure of that."
She turned from them. "Come to my hotel, will you not, to-morrow?
I may have something to say to you." Thus she passed back into the
throng, and into the arms of fickle and repentant Washington, which
marveled when she danced, flushed, excited, yet absorbed, with the
gallant old general, himself intoxicated by the music and by all
this warm talk of freedom, of equality, of democracy,--in
Washington!
CHAPTER XXIV
IN THE NAME OF ALTRUISM
In her apartments at the hotel the following morning Josephine St.
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