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"I wish to see the King," said Henri in a loud tone Because at that

moment the secretary, lareat distance, as if one had viewed thelass

The secretary knew Henri He, too, eyed hi has retired, erous tone, "that he will see ht so too There was a

strange ru round, to the effect that the boy had followed a

woland at a critical tiht There were so many woravely Henri was by that time in a chair, but

it ht to the arain the secretary had picked up his soft black hat and was

at the door

"I shall inquire," he said Henri saluted him stiffly, with his left

hand, as he went out

The secretary went to His Majesty's equerry, as in the next house

playing solitaire and trying to forget the family he had left on the

other side of the line

So it was that in due tiain traversed miles of path and