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"When?" he asked

"In the berlin between Brixen and Wellishan remembered that he had told her of his city of dreams But it was

plainly not to that that she referred He shrugged his shoulders

"I cannot remember"

"You told

was there in the year '15 He forced a passage through nine grenadiers

with loaded a the chimneys Ah, you remember the story

now There was a chain, I remember, which even then as you told of it

puzzled renadiers, and crossing his ar his cry of warning 'What chain?' I asked, and you

answered,--oh, sir, with a practised readiness,--'The chain he wore

about his neck' Do you rean It was your own escape of which you told ?"

"Your Highness," he said, "we know the King, ho have served him day

in and day out for years We can say freely to each other, 'The King's

achievements, they are to come' We were in Scotland with him, and we

know they will not fail to come But with you it's different You did

not know him You asked what he had done, and I told you You asked for

of adventurers, each of who to his credit, what has he, the chief adventurer?'"