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"But is he to marry her?" she insisted, she knew not why. "How should I know, your highness?" "If you call me 'your highness' again I'll despise you," she flared miserably. "Another question. Is it true that the young Duke Christobal fled because his father objected to his marriage with a game-warden's daughter?" "I have never heard so," with a touch of hauteur.
Somehow she felt an impulse to throw her arms about him and drag him back into the chapel, in spite of the ghost of the game-warden's daughter. "What is to prevent me from taking you with me?" he said intensely, a mighty longing in his breast. She laughed but drew back uneasily. "And live unhappily ever afterward?" said she. "Oh, dear me! Isn't this a funny proceeding?
If he were Christobal, then what of the game-warden's daughter? "We shall question you no further," said Yetive. "You enlisted to serve Miss Calhoun. It is for her to command you while you are here. May God be with you to the end. Miss Calhoun, will you tell him what his duties are for to-night? Come, my dear." Yetive and Dagmar walked slowly from the room, leaving Beverly and her guard alone.
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