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We did not return to Müller's; each of us stole quietly home to await the advent of the police, for they would rout out every American in town in their search for the man with the gun. They would first visit the consulate and ascertain what I knew of the affair; when they got through with the rest of the boys Max would be in Doppelkinn.
I forget what the largess of my office was. Presently there were terrible doings. The old reigning grand duke desired peace of mind; and moving determinedly toward this end, he declared in public that his niece, the young and tender Princess Hildegarde, should wed the Prince of Doppelkinn, whose vineyards gave him a fine income.
She would slip over into Doppelkinn, where they never would think to search for her. She knew a place in which to hide. From Doppelkinn she would go straight to Dresden and seek the protection of her old governess, who would hide her till the duke came to his senses. If only she had an independent fortune, how she would snap her fingers at them all!
From time to time, as a sudden twist in the road broke the straight line, Max could see the careening lights of the princess' carriage. A princess! And he was a man without a country or a name! The castle of the prince of Doppelkinn rested in the very heart of the celebrated vineyards.
All was well; barring accidents, he would be in Dresden the next day. "You go through Doppelkinn, then?" said I. "Yes. I have friends in Dresden whom I wish to see before going home." "Well, good luck to you!" Then I announced that Max Scharfenstein, an old college comrade, would join us presently. This was greeted with hurrahs.
As Max entered he was standing at the side of Doppelkinn. "There he is!" shouted the prince. "Do you know who he is?" The duke took a rapid inventory. "Never set eyes upon him before." The duke then addressed her Highness. "Hildegarde, who is this fellow? No evasions; I want the truth. I have, in the main, found you truthful." "I know nothing of him at all," said the princess curtly.
He sold us to the duke, who patiently waited for me to speak. Betty, I am a fool. But I shall never marry Doppelkinn. That is settled." "I suppose he will be inviting me to return to England," said Betty shrewdly. "Not for the present." "And I have just grown to love the place," pathetically. "Mr. Warrington has asked me to ride with him afternoons.
"I shall notify my friend, when we reach Doppelkinn, that I am without funds, and he will telegraph to Dresden." "Your friends were very wise in sending you away as they did. Aren't you always getting into trouble?" "Yes. But I doubt the wisdom of my friends in sending me away as they did," with a frank glance into her eyes. How beautiful they were, now that the sparkle of mischief had left them!
"There is no place quite like it," she admitted. "You are a stranger in Barscheit?" politely. He was young and certainly the best-looking man she had seen in a month of moons. If Doppelkinn, now, were only more after this pattern! "Yes, this is my first trip to Barscheit." He had a very engaging smile. "You are from Vienna?" "No." "Ah, from Berlin. I was not quite sure of the accent."
She should marry Doppelkinn, who, having no wife to do the honors in his castle, was wholly agreeable. The Prince of Doppelkinn reigned over the neighboring principality. If you stood in the middle of it and were a baseball player, you could throw a stone across the frontier in any direction. But the vineyards were among the finest in Europe.
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