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"You would be something, perhaps, to him if he saw you," replied the guttural voice of Von Glauben. "It is safer to be out of his way. You are a very wilful princess this afternoon! You must remember your husband is jealous!" The King started. "Her husband! What the devil does Von Glauben know about her husband!" De Launay was dumb. A nameless fear and dismay began to possess him. "My husband!"
The King recoiled a step a vague suspicion rankled in his mind. "Then, though your King asks you a friendly question, you refuse to answer it?" Von Glauben here gripped Sir Roger so fiercely by the arm, that the latter nearly cried out with pain. "She must not tell," he muttered "She must not she will not!" But Gloria was looking straight at her Royal questioner.
"Sunset already!" said Von Glauben, walking to the window and throwing back the heavy curtain which partially shaded it, "And yonder is Prince Humphry's yacht on its homeward way." De Launay came and stood beside him, looking out.
Do you remember Ah, no! you know nothing about it, but I will tell you the story! It was here, in this very place, that my husband first saw me!" "Ach so!" murmured Von Glauben. "It is an excellent place to make a first appearance! Eve herself could not have chosen more picturesque surroundings to make a conquest of Adam!" Apparently his mild sarcasm fell on unheeding ears.
Von Glauben looked at him, and in a moment made up his mind. He turned to the coral-fisher. "What think you truly of the night, my friend? Is it for life or death we go?" "Death! Certain death!" answered the man; "It is madness to set sail in such a storm as this!" "You are married, no doubt? And little ones eat your earnings? Ach so! Then you shall not be asked to go with us. Ronsard, I am ready!
"It was on this very subject, Sir, that Von Glauben wished to see your Majesty the first thing this morning," said Sir Roger; "But you refused him so early an audience. Yet you will remember that yesterday you told him you wished for an explanation of his acquaintance with this girl.
De Launay gave a gesture of impatience, and flung away the end of his half-smoked cigar. "Ach! That is a sign of temper, Roger!" said Von Glauben, shaking his head "To lift one's shoulders to the lobes of one's ears, and waste nearly the half of an exceedingly expensive and choice Havana, shows nervous irritation! You are angry, my friend and with me!"
Professor von Glauben, my physician, who has just attended you, will escort you to it. You will pass out quite unnoticed, and be, as you desire it again at full liberty. Let the memory of the King whose life you saved trouble you no more, except when you look upon his better counterpart! as then, perchance, you may think more kindly of him!
As they stood thus, the sudden boom of a single cannon echoed clear across the waves. "There goes the King!" said Von Glauben; "Majesty departs for the present, having so far satisfied his curiosity! That gun is the signal. Child!" and turning towards her again, he took both her hands in his, and spoke with emphatic gravity and kindness "Remember that I am your friend always!
The papers teemed with suggestions as to the 'welcoming home' of the young hero of romance and his bride, and Professor von Glauben, mentally giddy with the whirl of events, was nevertheless triumphantly elated. "Now that you know everything," he said to Sir Roger de Launay, "I hope you are satisfied! My 'jam-pot' that you spoke of, has turned out to be a special Sweetmeat for the whole nation!"
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