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Updated: June 16, 2025
Her whole ambition was forgotten for a moment in the thought of the man beside her. Ellerey did not answer. There was no time. The soldiers were upon them. With Petrescu on one side and Dumitru on the other Ellerey threw himself before the Princess. The final struggle had commenced, and so fierce was the resistance of these three men that the soldiers hesitated and fell back a pace.
The city will be hushed and still, but there are many who will not sleep. A signal will blaze forth in the darkness and a few may fall in the streets, but the Princess will be free. You will be ready to receive her, Countess?" "Here?" "Is it not the safest refuge in Sturatzberg?" asked Dumitru. "There are hiding-places here, and you are not a suspect in the city."
"Back to the house, comrades," shouted another; "there should still be something there worth laying hands on." Until now Ellerey had waited, hidden by the river house. He had reached it almost directly after the Princess and Dumitru had left it; but ignorant of this fact, he had waited for them. From the soldiers' words he learnt the truth.
"Ah, no, no, no; and again a hundred times, no. He is for the Queen a little, and for himself very much. Have you still a doubt, even now? A sudden death should be his reward." "Patience, Dumitru." "The English Captain had another visitor to-day the British Minister." "This English Captain is in great requisition, it would seem," she said.
Hannah met her on the threshold. "Has she not returned, my lady?" "Where is she? How did she have warning?" asked Frina. "She had gone long before. She went without a word to me. When they came asking for some Englishman, I had just wit enough to answer that I was your ladyship's servant, and knew no Englishman; but it was hard work not to ask them what had become of my Princess." "And Dumitru?"
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