A Prince to Order

t; and then repeated knocking, aggressive, commanding; and Grey, aroused sud

! Entrez

ened and Jo

," he said, bowing, "and the funer

made an effort to colle

after a moment; "Herr

his morning it has been raining. I have ordered

my

aits, He

sipping his café au lait and nibbling a br

we can decide whether they shall be brought on to Kürschdorf or sent back to America. I have placed all the details of the obsequies in the hands of

n the saucer before replying. He wished to make s

"I will go." If he was to play the game it wer

little h

n von Altdorf? H

aming; "she is more composed, more resigned. She is a wonde

ery lovely," G

pid depths of her sympathetic eyes, listening to the melody of her clear, full-toned voice. They were in a great garden with parterres of gay, sweet-scented flowers-roses and heliotrope and geraniums-and smooth terraces of greensward with marble nymphs and satyrs on mossy pedestals, and above them the kindly, protecting, leafy branches of an old oak. He had, he thought, just found again the girl he loved-found her aft

sitor. The recollection of the dream thus contrasted filled him with a spirit of rebellion. He was beset with an impulse to reveal without further delay his true condition and let the culprits, whoever they mig

ill that Jack O'Hara f

It is all tommyrot following this82 thing up. I'm going back, te

looked at him

e you dreaming? Sure you're not going to back out now when we've got such a pretty

d a little less gaily. He did not like

are dreami

iguous, but O'Hara took it that

'em, horse, foot, and dragoon? That's right, man. What the devil put the going-home n

ds were an83 inspiration, but the face and form of Hope were still before hi

you. I told 'em my name was Grey and opened it and read it. Then I gave it back to 'em, and explained

l answer. What a damned blackguard he must think me! He's handed my cable over to the police,

and O'Hara, after fumbling in his breast pock

I never gave up hope.

in, his eyes as wet as the pa

was the

e only

he world, think him dead. What a trickster is the weaver of dreams! How real had seemed his vision, and yet how untrue! And h

'd given a brass or something for it and had no record of your name o

l," sa

re the door, and he began

'm going to Schlippenbach's funeral now, and I'm going to follow this thing to the end of the route if it takes me

still have two months' leave, and I'll go w

d, for fear of revealing how little he knew of what had been prearranged. He gathered, however, that it had been planned to start for Budavia early in the following week and

riage had just crossed the Place de la République, past the great bronze statue which adorns the square, and was rolling leisurely along the Bou

hispered, excitedly. "

of men. The day was waning; the rain had ceased and there was

re. At this point the sidewalks are somewhat higher than the roadway and they had both

Dramatiques," Lindenwald explained, pres

?" Grey

has got word. We must now be more than careful. The Baron, my dear Herr Arndt,87 would not hesitate one little-one very little moment to cut yo

clamation of surprise. In its p

ondering whether he had seen him. The

he is vengeful. He is, too, oh, so shrewd! Six assassinations are at his door, and yet-

sure it was h

ike. If he saw us you can be assured we are even now being followed. Will it be too warm

And Captain88 Lindenwald pulled d

that a gentleman was waiting for him in the reading-room. He went in, with Grey, who wished to look at a new

t Lindenwald greeted the caller

ly, "this is indeed an honour. You h

m the State Department at Washington that there is an American stopping at this hotel whose name is Grey, though they tell me here there

eagerly. His eyes were bent over the table, but it was so dark in t

There was no savour of agitation in his voice,

iption. I dined in company with a man last night who has seen him

replied the Captain,

ed aside for him to light the gas over the table. As he di

vously, "standing by the table behind you-there

denwald tur

on's shoulder, "that is very droll, very. Do you

n no

, of cour

, it

H

ould not tell you were it not that I want to assure you beyo

d in spite

man

s, that man is His Royal Highness, Prince Maxim

ublican of republicans, being posed as91 a royal personage! It was staggering. And this was the solution to the riddle. This was why they were going to Kürschdorf. Herr Arndt was a name assumed. The Crown Prince was travelling incognito. It w

ured and he apologised and he looked hard at Grey to make sure that he would recognise P

will not mention my stupid blunder to His Royal

ould take it as a good joke. Oh, yes, I m

opped short, his face suddenly pallid. Standing on the threshold, not five paces away,

in," said the Baron von E

shion, and the Baron returned the salute

xpect to see me in Paris,

ed, Baron," the officer rejoined. "Wha

een the evening

N

ht hours." He made the announcement with an air of pleasurable anticipation. "I should fancy, Herr Captain, that your presence might be

her the Baron had overheard his conversation with Edson, and if so, how much. The man's smal

von Einhard continued,

f my stay is

d the Baron, still smiling, bowed

listening, now re

us, evidently

oisoned fang where and when least expected. We must be very wary-very wary, indeed, until we are quite sure he has left the city.

dvice is?"

ou cannot conceive of his ingenuity. I am vexed because I feel myself unequal to combat his trickery. I

end of which he was also ignorant. He had, of course, every reason to believe that in this plot95 Captain Lindenwald was a prominent factor, and as such his hand was against him. Meanwhile the machinery of international justice had been set in motion to bring about his own apprehension, extradition and punishment for a crime he had never contemplated and never willingly committed. Whether to this infraction Captain Lindenwald had been a party he had no means of knowing, but now it had turned out that another enemy was in the fie

ord recurred to him, and he got up and rang

is possible that Lutz knows. I

is manner uneasy. His eyes were furtive and refused to m

e is somewhere, probably among poor Herr Schlippenbach's effects, a receipt or check for a box at a rai

t." His gaze wa

iately

Herr A

t is

ng the floor like a madman, his

ent?" he asked himself. "I

had refrained from catching him by the throat and strangl