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And no sooner had George
Brand made his appearance than Reitzei rose, and, with a significant
smile, motioned the new-comer to take the vacant seat he had just
quitted.
"What do you mean?" Brand said, naturally taking another chair, which
was much nearer him.
"Will you not soon be occupying this seat _en permanence_?" Reitzei
said, with affected nonchalance.
"Lind has abdicated, then, I presume," said Brand, coldly: this young
man's manner had never been very grateful to him.
Reitzei sunk into the seat again, and twirled at his little black waxed
mustache.
"Abdicated? No; not yet," he said with an air of indifference. "But if
one were to be translated to a higher sphere?--there is a vacancy in the
Council."
"Then he would have to live abroad," said Brand, quickly.
The younger man did not fail to observe his eagerness, and no doubt
attributed it to a wrong cause. It was no sudden hope of succeeding to
Lind's position that prompted the exclamation; it was the possibility of
Natalie being carried away from England.


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