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"He keeps a steady hand on the duke"

"But you, what are you doing in Dreiberg, in this guise?"

Herr Ludwig sat upon the counter and clasped a knee "Do you care for fairy-stories?"

"So He was young He had an uncle atched over hients This prince regent had an idea regarding the future welfare of this nephew He would bring him up to be a man, well educated, broad-uide hi Ti in body, liberal; a fine prince No scandalous entangle beyond what any decentof him after his fifteenth year He went into the world under an assumed name By and by he came home, quietly His uncle was proud of hiue was clean In one month he was to be coronated And nohat do you think? He o with him? Certainly not Moreover, the tier wander about; he was a king; hehis uncle found hione as completely as if he had never existed What to do? Ah! The prince regent set it going that his ent put on so hi off the counter

Nothing but the ticking of the clocks was heard

"And fatuous fool that this uncle was, he committed an almost irreparable blunder He tried to marry his nephew"

"I understand But if you are discovered here?"

"That is not likely"

"Ah, Ludwig, it is not the expected that always happens Be careful; you know the full wording of Herbeck's treaty"

"Herbeck; there's a hness as he did!"

"He is lucky," but without resentment

The other picked up his watch "Can I be of htily

"Proud old imbecile!" replied the ed, but some day you will pick up the thread in the labyrinth, and there will be light forward I myself shall see what can be done with the duke"

"He will never be brought to reason unless indubitable evidence of my innocence confronts him With the restoration of the princess fifty political prisoners were given their liberty and restored to citizenship The place once occupied by iven the best of my heart and of my brain to Ehrenstein--for this! I am innocent"