Then they took
her to the hospital and kept her there till she had recovered. She
waited two months for death and then they brought her out one morning
in the dawn and hanged her.
"'You shall see how a Russian woman dies,' she told them as she ran up
the ladder and flung herself into space.
"You women shame us with your courage. Now every time I hear of a
thing like that, I think of you. You may have to run some great risk
here for a caprice of Sobrenski's."
"Vardri, Vardri, I wonder what will be the end of it all?"
CHAPTER XVI
The walls of the Hippodrome were no longer adorned with gaudy posters
whereon flared a travestied portrait of "_The beautiful English
equestrienne_." No longer for Arithelli were showered roses, the
tribute of head-lines in the weekly journals, and the welcome of many
voices. She had been absent for nearly a month, therefore she might as
well have been dead as far as the Spanish public was concerned.
The Manager had known this and had been careful to provide his patrons
with a new toy, who had come, even as Arithelli herself, from Paris.
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