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tonight, ' ou heard tonight"
"I did," suid he.
"Your cursed acuteness told you
what I should do. Well, leave me here
a -.veek and there's another problem
for you. Do-you lind the answer?"
;-Yes. I find it," he answered, frown
ing heavily. -But if you did that
you'd have to light me first and kil!
n;e."
"Well, and if I had or a score of
men? I tt'll you. I could raise all
Strelsau on you in an hour and choke
you with your lies yes; your mad lies
in your mouth."
"It's gospel truth," he said. "Thanks
to my advice, you could."
"I could marry the princess and send
Michael and his brother together to"
' I'm not denying it, lad." said he.
"Then, in God's name," I cried,
stretching out my hands to him, "let
us go to Z?nda and crush this Michael
and bring the king back to his own
again."
The old-fellow stood and looked at
me for full a minute.
"And the princess?" he said.
I bowed my head to meet my hands
and crushed the rose between my fin
gers and my lips.
I felt his hand on my shoulder, and
his voice sounded husky as he whisper
ed low in my ear:
"Before God. you're the finest Elph
berg of them all. But I have eaten of
the king's bread, and I am the king's
servant. Come, we will go to Zenda."
And I looked up and caught him by
the hand. And the eyes of both of us
were wet.
CIIAFTEIt XI.
sr IIIE terrible temptation which
j, was assailing me will now
jvpsl he understood. I would so
force Michael's hand that he
must kill the king. I was in a position
to bid him defiance and tighten my
grasp on the crown not for its own
sake, but because the king of Ruri
taiiia was to wed the Princess Flavia.
What of Sapt and Frits? Ah, but a
man cannot be held to write down in
cold blood the wild and black thoughts
that storm his brain when an uncon
trolled passion has battered a breach
for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a
saint, he need not hate himself for
them. He is better employed, as it
humbly seeing to me, in giving thanks
that power to resist was vouchsafed
to him than in fretting over wicked
Impulses which come unsought and ex
tort an unwilling hospitality from the
weakness of our nature.
It was a fine bright morning when I
walked, unattended, to the princess'
house, carrying a nosegay in my hand.
Policy made excuses for love, and ev
?ry attention that I paid her, while it
riveted my own chains, bound closer to
me the people of the great city, who
worshiped her. 1 found Fritz's ina
morata, the Countess Helga, gather
ing blooms in the garden for her mis
tress' wear and prevailed on her to
take mine in their place. The girl was
rosy with happiness, for Fritz, in his
turn, had not wasted his evening and
no dark shadow hung over his woo
ing save the hatred which the Duke
of Strelsau was known to bear him.
"And that," she said, with a mis
chievous smile, "your majesty has
made of no moment. Yes. I will take
the flowers. Shall I teli you, sire,
what is the first thing the princess
does with them?"
We were talking on a broad terrace
that ran along the back of the house,
and a window above our heads stood
open.
"Madame!" cried the countess mer
rily, and Flavia herself looked out.
I bared my head and bowed. She
wore a white gown, and her hair was
loosely gathered in a knot. She kissed
her hand to me, crying:
"Bring the king up, Helga; I'll give
him some coffee."
The countess, with a gay glance, led
the way and took me into Flavia's
morning room. And, left alone, we
greeted one another as lovers are
wont. Then the princess laid two let
ters before me. One was from Black
Michael a most courteous request that
she would honor him by spending a
day at his castle of Zenda, as had been
her custom once a year in the sum
mer, when the place and its gardens
were in the height of their great beau
ty. I threw the letter down in dis
gust, and Flavia laughed at me. Then,
growing grave again, she pointed to
the other sheet.
"I don't know who that comes from,"
she said. "Head it."
I knew in a moment. There was no
signature at all this time, but the hand
writing was the same as that which
had told me of the snare in the sum
mer house. It was Antoinette de Mau
ban's. I have no cause to love you it ran,
but God forbid that you should fall into
the power of the duke. Accept no invita
tions of his. Go nowhere without a large
guard a regiment is not too much to
make you safe. Show this if you can to
him who reigns in Strelsau.
"Why doesn't it say 'the king?' " ask
ed Flavia, leaning over my shoulder
so that the ripple of her hair played on
my neck. "Is it a hoax?"
"As you value life and more than
life, my queen," I said, "obey it to the
very letter. A regiment shall camp
round your house today. See that you
do not go out unless well guarded."
"An order, sire?" she asked, a little
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"Yes, an order, madame if you love
me."
"Ah!'' .;he cried. And I could not but
kisL- her.
"You know who sent it?" she asked.
"I guess," said I. "It is from a good
friend and, I fear, an unhappy wo
man. You must be ill Flavia, and un
able to go to Zenda. Make your, ex
cuses as cold and formal as you like."
"So you feel strong enough to anger
Michael?" she said, with a proud smile.
"I'm strong ' enough for anything
while you are safe," said I.
Soon I tore myself away from her,
and then, without consulting Sapt, I
took my way to the house of Marshal
Strakencz. I had seen something of
the old general, and I liked and trusted
him. Sapt was less enthusiastic, but I
had learned by now that Sapt was best
pleased when he could do everything,
and jealousy played some part in his
views. As things were noAv, I had
more work than Sapt and Fritz could
manage, for they must come with me
to Zenda, and I wanted a man to guard
what I loved most in all the world and
suffer me to set about my task of re
leasing the king with a quiet mind.
The marshal received me with most
loyal kindness. To some extent I took
him into my confidence. I charged him
with the care of the princess, looking
him full and significantly in the face
as I bade him let no one from her
cousin the duke approach her unless he
himself were there and a dozen of his
men with him.
"You may be right, sire," said he,
shaking his gray head sadly. "I have
known better men than the duke do
worse things than that for love."
I could quite appreciate the remark,
but I said:
"There's something beside love, mar
shal. Love's for the heart. Is there
nothing my brother might like for his
head?"
"I pray that you wrong him, sire."
"Marshal, I'm leaving Strelsau for a
few days. Every evening I will send
a courier to you. If for three days
none comes you will publish an order
which I will give you depriving Duke
Michael of the governorship of Strelsau
and appointing you in his place. You
will declare a state of siege. Then you
will send word to Michael tnat you
demand an audience of the king. You
follow me?" .
"Aye, sire."
"In twenty-four hours. If he does
not produce the king" I laid my hand
on his knee "then the king is dead,
and you will proclaim the next heir.
You know who that is?"
"The rrin.-ess Flavia."
"And swear to me on your faith and
honor and by the fear of the living
God that you will stand by her to your
death aurl kill that reptile and seat her
where I sit now."
"On my faith and honor and by the
fear of God I swear it! And may Al
mighty God preserve your majesty, for
I think that you go on an errand of
danger."
"I hope that no life more precious
than mine may be demanded," said I,
rising. Then I held out my hand to
him.
"Marshal," I said, "in days to come
it may be I know not that you will
hear strange things of the man who
speaks to you now. let him be what
he may and who he may, what say
you of the manner in which he has
borne himself as king in Strelsau?"
The old man, holding my hand, spoke
to me, man to man.
"I have known many of the Elph
bergs," said he, "and I have seen you.
And, happen what may, you have
borne yourself as a wise king and a
brave man aye, and you have proved
as courteous a gentleman and as gal
lant a lover as any that have been of
the house."
"Be that my epitaph," said I, "when
the time comes that another sits on
the throne of Kuritania."
"God send a far day, and may I not
see it!" said he.
I was much moved, and the marshal's
worn face twitched. I sat down and
wrote my order.
"I can hardly yet write," said I. "My
finger is stiff still."
It was, in fact, the first time that I
bad ventured to write more than a sig
nature, and in spite of the pains I had
taken to learn the king's hand I was
not yet perfect in it.
"Indeed, sire," he said, "it differs a
little from your ordinary handwriting.
It is unfortunate, for it may lead to a
suspicion of forgery."
"Marshal," said I, with a laugh,
"what use are the guns of Strelsau if
they can't assuage a little suspicion?"
He smiled grimly and took the paper.
"Colonel Sapt and Fritz von Tarlen
heim go with me," I continued.
"You go to seek the duke?" he asked
in a low tone.
"Yes, the duke, and some one else of
whom I have need and who is at Zen
da," I replied.
"I wish I could go with you!" he
cried, tugging at his white mustache.
"I'd like to strike a blow for you and
your crown."
"I leave you what is more than my
life and more than my crown," said I,
"because you are the man I trust more
than ail others in Kuritania."
"I will deliver her to you safe and
sound," said he, "and, failing that, I
will make her queen."
We parted, and I returned to the pal
ace and toid Sapt and Fritz what I had
done. Sapt had a few faults to find
and a few grumbles to utter. This was
merely what I expected, for Sapt liked
to be consulted beforehand, not inform
ed afterward. On tue whole he ap
proved of my plans, and his spirits
rose high as the hour of action drew
nearer and nearer. Fritz, too, was
ready, though he, poor fellow, risked
more than Sapt did. for he was a lover,
and his happiness hung in the scale.
Yet how I envied him! For the trium
Dhant issue which would crown him
with happiness and unite him to his .
mi tress, the success for which Ave '
were bound to hope and strive and J
struggle, meant to me sorrow more cer
tain and greater than' if I were doom
ed to fail. He understood something of
this, for when we were alone (save for
old Sapt, who was smoking at the otn
er end of the room) he passed his arm
through mine, saying: -. "
"It's hard for you. Don't think I
don't trust you. I know you have noth
ing but true thoughts in your heart."
But I turned away from him, thank
ful that he could not see what my heart
held, but only be witness to the deeds
that my hands were to do.
Yet even he did not understand, for
he had not dared to lift his eyes to the
Princess Flavia, as I had lifted mine.
Our plans were now all made, even
as we proceeded to carry them . out,
and as they will hereafter appear. The
next morning we were to start on the
hunting excursion. I had made all ar
rangements for being absent, and now
there was only one thing left to do
the hardest, the most heartbreaking.
As evening fell I drove through the
busy streets to Flavia's residence. I
was recognized as I went and heartily
cheered. I played my part, and made
shift to look the happy lover. In spite
of my depression I was almost amused
at the coolness and delicate hauteur
with which my sweet love"r received
me. She had heard that the king was
leaving Strelsau on a hunting expedi
tion. "I regret that we cannot amuse your
majesty here in Strelsau," she said,
tapping her foot lightly on the floor.
"I would have offered you more enter
tainment, but I was foolish enough to
think"
"Well, what?" I asked, leaning over
her.
. "That for just a day or two after
after last night you might be happy
without much gayety," and she turned
pettishly from me as she ' added, "I
hope the boars will be more engross
ing." "I'm going after a very big boar,"
said I; and, because I could not help
it, I began to play with her hair, but
she moved her head away.
"Are you offended with me?" I ask
ed in feigned surprise, for I could not
resist tormenting her a little. I had
never seen her angry, and every fresh
aspect of her Avas a delight to me.
"What right have I to be offended?
True, you said last night that every
hour away from me was wasted. But
a very big boar that's a different
thing!"
"Perhaps the boar will hunt me," I
suggested. "Perhaps, Flavia, he'll
catch me."
She made no answer.
"You are not touched even by that
danger?"
Still she said nothing, and I, stealing
round, found her eyes full of tears.
"You weep for my danger?"
Then she spoke very low:
"This is like what you used to be,
but not like the king the king I I
have come to love!"
With a sudden great groan I caught
her to my heart.
"My darling," I cried, forgetting ev
erything but her, "did you dream that
I left you to go hunting?"
"What then, Rudolf ? Ah, you're not
oing"
"Well, It is hunting. I go to seek
Michael in his lair."
She had turned very pale.
"So, you see, sweet, I was not so
poor a lover as you thought me. I
shall not be gone long."
"You will write to me, Rudolf?"
I was weak, but I could not say sl
word to stir suspicion in her.
"I'll send you all my heart every
day," said I.
"And you'll run no danger?"
"None that I need not."
"And when will you be back? Ah,
how long it will be!"
"When shall I be back?" I repeated.
"Yes, yes! Dont be long, dear; don't
be long. I shan't sleep while you're
away."
"I don't know when I shall be baekV"
said I.
"Soon, Rudolf, soon?"
"God knoAvs, my darling. But if
never"
"Hush, hush!" and she pressed her
lips to mine.
"If never," I whispered, "you must
take my place. You'll be tlfe only one
of the house then. You must reign
and not weep for me."
For a moment she drew herself up
like a very queen.
"Yes, I will!" she said. "I will reign.
I will do my part. Though all my life
will be empty and my heart dead, yet
I'll do it."
She paused and, sinking against me
again, wailed softly:
"Come soon! Come soon!"
Carried away, I cried loudly:
"As God lives, I yes, I myself will
see you once more before I die!"
"What do you mean?" she exclaim
ed with wondering eyes, but I had no
answer for her, and she gazed at me
with her wondering eyes.
I dared not ask her to forget. She
would have found it an insult. I could
not tell her then who and what I was.
She was weeping, and I had but to
dry her tears.
"Shall a man not come, back to the
loveliest lady in all the wide world?"
said I. "A thousand Michaels should
not keep me from you!"
She clung to me a little comforted.
"You won't let Michael hurt you?"
"No, sweetheart."
"Or keep you from me?"
"No, sweetheart."
"Nor any one else?"
And again I answered:
"No. sweetheart."
Yet there was one not Michael
who if he lived must keep me from
her and for whose life I was going
forth to stake my own. 'And his fig
urethe lithe, buoyant igure I had
met in the woods of Zenda; the dull,
inert mass I had left in the cellar of
the
rlnnhJfi S
fore me-and to co:e
between V, tlir--iti::g it:.;eif in pre
where she lay, pale, exhausted, faint
ing, in my arms and yet looking up at
me withiihose eyes that Lore such love
as I have never seen, and haunt me
now and will till the ground closes over
me and (who knows?) perhaps beyond.
CHAPTER XII.
BOUT five miles from Zenda,
on the opposite side from that
on which the castle was situ
ated, there lies a large tract
of wood. It is rising ground, and in
the center of, the demesne, on the top
of the hill, stands a fine modern cha
teau, the property of a distant kinsman
of Fritz's, the Count Stanislas von Tar
lenheim. Count Stanislas himself was
a student and a recluse. He seldom
visited the house and had on Fritz's
request very readily and courteously
offered me its hospitality for myself
and my party. This, then, was our
destination, chosen ostensibly for the
sake of the boar hunting (for the wood
was carefully preserved, and boars,
once common all over Ruritania, were
still to be found there in considerable
numbers), really because it brought us
within striking distance of the Duke
of Strelsau's more magnificent dwell
ing on the other side of the town. A
large party of servants, with horses
and luggage, started early in the morn
ing.
We followed at midday, traveling
by train for thirty miles and then
mounting our horses to ride the re
maining distance to the chateau.
We were a gallant party. Besides
Sapt and .Fritz, I was accompanied by
ten gentlemen. Every one of them had
been carefully chosen and no less care
fully sounded by my two friends, and
all were devotedly attached to the per
son of the king. They were told a part
of the truth. The attempt on my life
in the summer house was revealed to
them as a spur to their loyalty and an
indictment against Alichael. They were
also informed that a friend of the
king's was suspected to be forcibly
confined - within the castle of Zenda.
His rescue was one of the objects of
the expedition; but, it was added, the
king's main desire was to carry into
effect certain steps against his treach
erous brother, as to the precise nature
of which they could not at present be
further enlightened. Enough that the
king commanded their services and.
would rely on their devotion when oc
casion arose to call for it. Young, well
bred, bravre and loyal, they asked no
more. They were ready to prove their
dutiful obedience and prayed for a
fight as the best and most exhilarating
mode of showing it.
Thus the scene was shifted from
Strelsau to the chateau of Tarlenheim
and castle of Zenda which frowned at
us across the valley. I tried to shift
my thoughts also, to forget my love,
and to bend all my energies to the task
before me. It was to get the king out
of the castle aliATe. Force was useless.
In some trick- lay the chance, and I
had already an inkling -of what we
must do. But I was terribly ham
pered by the publicity which attended
my movelnents. Michael must know
by now of my expedition, and I knew
Michael too well to suppose that his
eyes would be blinded by the fefnt of
the boar hunt. He would understand
very well what the real quarry was.
That, however, must be risked that
and all it might mean, for Sapt, no less
than myself, recognized that the pres
ent state of things had become unen
durable. And there was one thing that I
tared to calculate on not, as I now
know, without warrant. It was this
that Black Michael would not believe
that I meant well by the king. He
could not appreciate I will not say an
honest man, for the thoughts of my
own heart have been revealed but a
man acting honestly. He saw my op
portunity as I had seen it, as Sept had
seen it; he knew the princess nay
(and I declare that a sneaking sort of
pity for him invaded me), in his way
he loved herT He would think that
Sapt and Fritz could be bribed, so the
bribe were large enough. Thinking
thus, would he kill the king, my rival
and my danger? Aye, A-erily, that he
would, with as little compunction as
he would kill a rat. But he would kill
Rudolf Rassendyll first, if he could,
and nothing but the certainty of being
utterly damned by the release of the
king alive and his restoration to the
throne would drive him to throw away
the trump card which he held in re
serve to balk the supposed game of tne
impudent impostor Rassendyll. Mus
ing on all this a I rode along, I took
courage.
Michael knew of my coming sure
enough. I had not been in the house
an hour when an imposing embassy
arrived from him. He did not quite
reach the impudence of sending my
would be assassins, but he sent the
other three of his famous Six the
three Ruritanian gentlemen, Lauen
gram, Krafstein and Rupert Hentzau.
A fine, strapping trio they were, splen
didly horsed and admirably equipped.
Young Rupert, who looked a dare
devil and 'could not have been more
than twenty-two or twenty-three, took
the lead and made us the neatest
speech, wherein my devoted subject
and loving brother, Michael of Strel
sau, prayed me to pardon him for not
paying his addresses in person and,
further, for not putting hte castle at
my disposal, ' the reason for both of
these apparent derelictions being that
he and several of his,servants lay sick
of scarlet fever and were in a very
sad and also in a very infectious state.
So declared young Rupert with an in
solent smile on his curling upper lip
and a toss of his thick hair he was a
handsome villain, and the gossip ran
that many a lady had troubled her
heart, for him already.
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"If my bx-oiiicr has scarlet fever,"
said I, "he is nearer my complexion
than he is wont to be, my lord. I
trust he does not suffer."
"He is able to attend to his affairs,
sire."
"I hope all beneath your roof are not
sick. What of my good friends De
Gautet, Bersonin and Detchard? I
heard the last had suffered a hurt."
L.auengram and Krafstein looked
glum and uneasy, but young Rupert's
smile grew Jroader.
"He hopes soon to find a medicine
for it, sire," he answered.
And I burst out laughing, for I knew
what medicine Detchard longed for. It
Is called revenge.
"You will dine with us, gentlemen?"
I asked.
Young Rupert was profuse in apolo
gies. They had urgent duties at the
castle. " -
"Then." said I, with a wave of my
hand, "to our next meeting, gentlemen.
May it make us better acquainted."
"We will pray your majesty for an
early opportunity," quoth Rupert air
ily. And he strode past Sapt with such
jeering scorn on his face that I saw the
old fellow clinch his fist and scowl
black as night.
For my part, if a man must needs
be a knave I would have him a debo
nair knave, and I liked Rupert Hent
zau better than his long faced, close
eyed companions. It makes your sin
no worse, as I conceive, to do it a la
mode and stylishly.
Now, it was a" curious thing that on
this first night, instead of eating the
excellent dinner my cooks had pre
pared for me, I must needs leave my
gentlemen to eat it alone, under Sapt's
presiding care, and ride myself with
Fritz to the town of Zenda and a
certain little inn that I knew of. There
was little danger in the excursion. The
evenings were long and light, and the
road this side. of Zenda well frequent
ed. So off we rode, with a groom be
hind us. I muffled myself up in a big
cloak.
"Fritz," said. I as we entered the
town, "there's an uncommonly pretty
girl at this inn."
"How do you know?" he asked.
"Because I've been there," said I.
"Since" he b.egan.
"No. Before," said I.
"But they'll recognize you?"
"Well, of course they will. Now don't
argue, my good fellow, but listen to
me. We're two gentlemen of the king's
household, and one of us has a tooth
ache. The other will order a private
room and dinner and, further, a bottle
of the best wine for the sufferer. And
If he be as clever a fellow as I take
him for, the pretty girl and no other
will wait on us."
"What if she won't?" objected Fritz.
"My dear Fritz," said I, "if she won't
for you, she will for me."
We were at the inn. Nothing of me
but my eyes was visible as I walked
in. The landlady received us. Two
minutes later my little friend (ever, I
fear, on the lookout for such guests as
might prove amusing) made her ap
pearance. Dinner and the wine were
ordered. I sat down in the private
room. A miaute later Fritz came in.
"She's coming," he said.
"If she were not, I should have to
doubt the Countess Helga's taste."
She came in. I gave her time to set
the wine down. I didn't want it drop
ped. Fritz poured out a glass and gave
it to me.
"Is the gentleman in great pain?" the
girl asked sympathetically.
"The gentleman is no worse than
when he saAv you last," said I, throw
ing away my cloak.
She started with a little shriek. Then
she cried:
"It was the king, then! I told mother
so the minute I saw his picture. Oh,
sir, forgive me!'
"Faith, you gave me nothing that
hurt much," said I.
"But the things we said!"
"I forgive them for the thing you
did."
"I must go and tell mother."
"Stop," said I, assuming a graver air.
"We are not here for sport tonight.
Go and bring dinner, and not a word
of the king being here."
She came back in a few minutes,
looking grave, yet very curious.
"Well, how is Johann?" I asked, be
ginning my dinner.
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