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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Why not question Captain Ellerey?" "I have done so, but to no purpose." "I will question him," said the King. "Why not question her Majesty?" Lord Cloverton suggested. "Captain Ellerey is with her at this moment." "You shall go with me, Lord Cloverton," said the King. "Since you have such suspicions it is no time for secret questionings.
All that day search was made for Captain Ellerey throughout the city. Many places, known to be haunts of the dissatisfied, were entered, but were innocent of even the appearance of evil. There were too many ready to bear warning for such places to be taken unawares. But no other houses of such importance as the Countess Mavrodin's were disturbed. There was no result.
"Captain Ellerey does not like De Froilette," said Frina. "Tell me your plan, Maritza." The Princess drew a flower carefully from the bowl and held it to her face, as though she were absorbed for a moment in its beauty and fragrance. "Captain Ellerey left the Court with you, to-night," she said. "That was wisely thought of. Did he come willingly?"
"Yes, it was splendid, as you say. What more, Dumitru?" "The friend of the Englishman was killed, I think. He was of the Embassy. There will be much questioning over the affair." "The Baron's folly is likely to ruin us," said the Princess. "There is still Captain Ellerey," said Frina. Dumitru looked at the Princess, the slightest flicker in his eyes attracting her attention.
Grigosie and Anton, leading the way by scarce a dozen paces, turned almost directly from the main thoroughfare into a side street, and had soon turned to left and right so often that Ellerey would hardly have found his way back to the Toison d'Or. Not once did they stop, and if they looked back to see that their companion was following them, Ellerey was not aware of the fact.
"Then ask me to go with you," was the prompt reply. "May I not even take you out of charity?" The lad shook his head with a smile, and there was something very winning in his smile. "Very well. Will you come with me?" asked Ellerey. "To the death." "Your hand on that bargain." "I'll earn the grip of comradeship before I take it, Captain.
The well-known brilliancy of his attacks was wanting, and he could only suppose that the Englishman was a more worthy swordsman than he had imagined. Whatever deliberation the Baron used, he at first pressed the fight far more than Ellerey, whose whole attention seemed occupied in defending himself.
"Francois has seen these men who have come back, and I am convinced that Captain Ellerey was as astonished to see the token as any one." "How could he be?" "Are you certain of the man who delivered it to him?" "As I am of myself. Do you still trust this Englishman?" "If he wished to deceive us he could have done so in a much more effectual way," said De Froilette, "and served his own ends better.
"I can still make my confession, your Majesty," said Ellerey, wondering whether his words were quite true, for he had looked into this woman's eyes many times. Then he went toward the group, quick to observe that Baron Petrescu left it at his coming. Ellerey understood that the Queen must have watched him carefully. To this woman he had certainly paid more attention than to any other.
If Ellerey had mentioned the Queen as their employer they had considered the King and Queen as one, and no question was put to them to make them differentiate between them. They were dismissed, and the King was for some hours closeted with one or two of his prominent Ministers.
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