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Updated: September 18, 2025
You have promised the King to become a subject of Hohenphalia." "Yes." "Then you will be a subject of mine. It is my will I am in a sovereign mood that you at once proceed to find Hildegarde, and I will give her to you." We had arrived at the head of the stairs. The departing light of the smoldering sun poured through the stained windows.
Events which the King wills must come to pass, or he loses a part of his royal dignity. And then, a King cannot very well be subservient to the will of a subject." "But has she no rights as a petty sovereign?" I asked. "Only those which the King is kind enough to give her. She is but a tenant: the rulers of Hohenphalia are but guests of his Majesty. It is to be regretted, but it cannot be helped."
I closed the door and bolted it. He followed my movements with a mixture of astonishment and curiosity in his eyes. "Now," I began, "what have you done with the proofs which you took from your wife the proofs of the existence of a twin sister of the Princess Hildegarde of Hohenphalia?"
"The deuce take the woman!" "What's that?" asked my assistant, who had overheard my outburst. "Oh, I am to go across on a special story," I said with a snarl, "just as I was fixing for a week's fishing. I've got to concern myself with the Princess Hildegarde of Hohenphalia."
The affair caused considerable stir. The wise men of diplomacy shook their heads over it and predicted grave things in store for Hohenphalia. Things were bad enough as they were, but to have a woman with American ideas at the head well, it was too dreadful to think of. And the correspondents created a hubbub.
It suggests strength something they have not. Several times this young woman's eyes met mine. Somehow, mine were always first to fall. There was a magnetism in hers mine could not withstand. Later, an attaché came to me and said that he wished to present me to her Serene Highness the Princess Hildegarde of let us call it Hohenphalia. He whispered that she had commanded the introduction.
Though I have hunted all over the Continent, I have never seen the Princess Hildegarde since that night at B . Where shall I find her? I haven't the least idea. But as a last throw, I am going to the principality of Hohenphalia, where she was born and over which she rules with infinite wisdom. The King is determined that she shall wed Prince Ernst.
I refused to entertain the possibility of not finding him at the inn. I swore to heaven that the nuptials of the Princess Hildegarde of Hohenphalia and the Prince Ernst of Wortumborg should not be celebrated at noon, Thursday. I went into the bedroom. "Pembroke?" "What is it?" came drowsily. "I am going on a journey." "One of those cursed orders you get every other day?" he asked. "No.
The result of the adventure was, I sent a very interesting story to New York, omitting my part in it. This done, I wired my assistant in London not to expect me for some time yet. The truth was, I determined to hunt for Hillars, and incidentally for her Serene Highness the Princess Hildegarde of Hohenphalia.
"Moreover," said the King, "she desires you to remain the sovereign Princess of Hohenphalia." "Nay, Your Majesty," said Gretchen, "it is I who will relinquish my claims. Your Majesty is aware that I have many caprices." "Indeed, yes," said the King. "And I can assure you that they have caused me no small anxiety. But let us come to an understanding, once and for all.
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