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The courier at once sought the hotel office and registered as follows:

Her Highness Princess Zara de Echeveria

and suite, St Petersburg

And when his attention was called to the fact that the naed his shoulders and announced: "I regret, sir, that I do not rehness' suite, but I will supply you presently with a

list of them"

In the parlor of the apartments occupied by the princess, her maid was

re her mistress coe, a few hours of fatigue which

nothing but restful quiet and utter idleness will overco card was taken to the

princess she did not even give herself the trouble to exah half closed eyelids: "Whoever it is, Orloff, say that I will not receive until four this

afternoon"

Down below, in the office of the hotel, the gentlee in reply to it, shrugged his

shoulders, glanced at the face of his watch to discover that it was yet

barely noon-ti

to read and thereby while away the tiht a

comfortable chair in a secluded corner deposited himself in it with an

air of finality which indicated that he had no idea of departing from

the hotel until after he had secured the solicited audience

At four he sent a second card to the princess; at half past four he was