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Updated: June 23, 2025
I wonder what post he hopes to adorn at the Court of the Pretender." For a moment the Spaniard looked on with an expression of melancholy reflection. "That boy," he said "at last, has the trust and friendship of the King. Before him lies every prospect of advancement, yet he has been beguiled by the Countess Astaride, and throws himself into a plot against Karyl.
He had been the recipient of every possible favor, and Karyl, himself ingenuous and loyal to his friends, felt with double bitterness that not only had his enemy saved him, but, too, his friend had betrayed him. Then came a hurried message from Von Ritz, who begged to see the King at once.
But the darker spot was the door behind which Sayed Ayoub lay in ambuscade, and as Karyl reached it, it swung open, showing them against a background as bright as though they were painted on yellow canvas. With his free arm he swept Cara into the doorway, wheeling quickly in front of her, and sent Mohammed Abbas lurching forward into the faces of the assailants led by Sayed Ayoub.
"At the right of 'Louis, the Dreamer, as he is called, sits the Count Borttorff, who is not greatly in favor with Prince Karyl. He, too, is a Galavian of noble birth, but Paris knows him better than Puntal.
The one time I have been allowed to feel a man was in your country, where we met as equal rivals.... No, not equal even then, because you were the winner, I the loser." "Karyl," the Queen spoke in a low voice, "I can give you loyalty, admiration, respect and my life to use as you see fit to use it. I give as freely as I can. My love I do not refuse it is just ... just that it is not mine to give."
Benton's yacht?" he inquired. Karyl nodded. "The yacht." "I, too, had thought of that, but how can you arrange it, Your Majesty?" "We must persuade her that she requires a change of scene and that this is the one way she can have it without conspicuousness.
It would be so, except that we are both seeking the same end your service " he paused, then added miserably "and your happiness." She listened in wonderment as she held out her hand to Benton and watched trance-like his lowered head as he bent his lips to her fingers. "Cara!" Karyl had stepped back and was leaning over, his elbows resting on the stone back of one of the low benches.
"Messieurs, we have wrecked Karyl's dynasty, but it still devolves upon us in workmanlike fashion to clear away the débris." Martin leaned forward and put his query like an attorney cross-examining a witness. "Where was this Queen when the King was taken?" "That," replied Jusseret, "is a question to be put to Von Ritz or Karyl.
They spread from a group into a line, and the line quickly closed in a circle around the King and the one man who remained loyal. Karyl was himself unarmed. He raised a restraining hand to Von Ritz's shoulder, but before he could speak his head sagged forward under the impact of some sudden shock some blow from behind and things went dark about him as he crumpled to his knees and fell.
"And we must talk," went on Karyl vehemently, "as two men, not as one man and a puppet." The American stood looking on at the violence of the King's outburst with a sense of deep sympathy. Again the Colonel stepped forward with an interposed objection. "If I may suggest " he began in an emotionless inflection which fell in startling contrast with the surcharged vehemence of the other.
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