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It was decided that Carter and Sobieska should proceed to Vienna ; Muhlen-Sarkey and Trusia with their two attendants were to cross into Germany at the nearest point , thence travel by rail , while Josef and the rest should embark boldly from Schallberg . Carrick was much depressed at learning he was to be left behind , but extracted some consolation from the fact that he was to be detailed to attend Count Zulka for whom he had always shown a preference . `` The rendezvous is Paris , -- Boulevard St. Michel , second house on the left from St. Germain . The time , two days hence , at six o'clock in the evening . That will allow the necessary time for unforeseen hitches , '' said Sobieska , to which all quietly assented . Speeded by the entire court coterie , Sobieska and Carter mounted and clattered out of the courtyard , and by ways through the forest , which the Minister of Private Intelligence had learned in a score of hunting trips , the pair , evading the vigilance of Russian sentries , reached the Vistula . They were ferried across by a loyal peasant and landed on Austrian soil without hostile interruption .