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It was the Marquise de Vierle, wife of the French Ambassador. "How about her Masque to-night?" I asked; "will it be worth while?" "It's very evident you are new to Dornlitz," Courtney observed and Lady Helen laughed. "The Vierle Balls outrival even the Court functions," she explained. "Are you going?" I asked her. "I am, indeed." "And you, Courtney?" "I shall look in late." I motioned to Moore.
I could not well have her dragged from the room; and the other alternative to leave, myself was not to my taste. It looked too much like flight. "I wish you would explain why I am not permitted to leave Dornlitz," she said. "Have you been restrained from leaving?" I asked. "Still pretending ignorance, my dear," she laughed.
To those who have never been to Dornlitz I may say that the Hanging Garden is the name for the great balcony of the Hotel Metzen. It suggests very faintly the Terrace at Westminster; though, of course, it is far more beautiful, with the dancing waters of Lake Lorg instead of the dirty, sluggish Thames.
Nevertheless, it is a bit jolting to realize, suddenly, that some one has been prying into your family history. On the west wall of the Corridor of Kings, in the Palace of Dornlitz, hung the full-length portrait of Henry, third of the name and tenth of the Line.
To my surprise he congratulated me very heartily upon my appointment as Governor of Dornlitz; and, perforce, I invited him to join us at supper. He hesitated a moment, and I urged him to come. In fact, I felt a bit sorry for him. He had just lost the Princess and, with her, likely, his chance at the Throne, as well. And I had won the one and, very possibly, the other, also.
He was steering into strange waters, it seemed to me. "Now, if she had done it in Paris, or Vienna, or any place outside of Valeria," he went on, "one could see the temporary profit of it. But, to come to Dornlitz and dare it under your very nose!" he flung up his hands. "She is a bit too much for me!" I saw his drift, now.
"Your Majesty has heard me appeal for protection to the Ambassador of my native land and be refused, because I was no longer an American citizen," she began. "And you, yourself, have practically admitted he was correct, and that I am a Valerian subject. Therefore, I demand that freedom of action which is granted to all your citizens, and that the order of the Governor of Dornlitz be revoked."
This was their one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and on every one of them it had been the unbroken custom for the then governor of Dornlitz to be present and pass the Regiment in Review saving, of course, in war-time, when it chanced to be in active service in the field. The crowd of spectators was enormous.
Spencer," I said curtly; "so simple, indeed, I am quite sure you guessed it, long ago." Her smile still lingered. "The bargain, sir, the bargain!" "I issued the order, madame, because you have falsely proclaimed yourself my wife, and I intend to confine your acting as such within the limits of this town. So long as you pose as my wife you will never pass the gates of Dornlitz."
"This, sire," said I: "When Hugo left Dornlitz his estates were forfeited, his titles were revoked and his name was stricken from the family roll. How can he now, after a century and a quarter, be rehabilitated?" "The King, as Head of our House, has full power."
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