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Updated: May 11, 2025
They have paid for their advertisement, and they must have it. They ought to have had it to-day. Lutera must warn the King that it will not do to offend the Church. There's a lot of loose cash lying idle in the Vatican, we may as well have some of it! His Majesty has acted most unwisely in refusing to grant the religious Orders the land they want.
"Whatever David Jost has said, David Jost alone is answerable for!" he then said calmly "A Jew may be called a liar with impunity, and whatever a Jew has asserted can be flatly denied. Remember, he is in our pay!" "I doubt if he will consent to be made the scapegoat in this affair," said Lutera; "Unless we can make it exceptionally to his advantage; he has the press at his command."
"What is this anonymous communication you speak of?" asked the Premier, after a pause. "Oh, it is brief enough," answered Silvano unfolding a paper, and he read aloud: "To the Marquis de Lutera, Premier. "Satisfy yourself that those who meet on Saturday night where Lotys speaks, have already decided on your downfall!"
Many of those who had the felicity of breathing in the King's presence that afternoon remarked upon his Majesty's evident good health and high spirits, while others as freely commented on the unapproachableness and irritability of the Marquis de Lutera.
It was pretty well known that the Marquis de Lutera had sent in his resignation, but it was not at all certain whether the King was of a mind to accept it. Things were in abeyance, political and social matters whirled giddily towards chaos and confusion; and the numerous hurried Cabinet Councils that were convened, boded some perturbation among the governing heads of the State.
Punctual to that hour, a close carriage drove up to the palace. It contained no less a personage than the Prime Minister, the Marquis de Lutera, a dark, heavy man, with small furtive eyes, a ponderous jaw, and a curious air of seeming for ever on an irritable watch for offences.
"What afflicts you with these sudden pangs of distrust at your position? You have taken care to provide for all your own people! What more can you desire?" Lutera hesitated; then he said slowly: "I think there is only one thing for me to do, and that is to send in my resignation at once!" Carl Perousse raised himself a little out of his chair, and opened his narrow eyes.
"A request from you is a command, Sir!" replied Lutera with hypocritical deference and something of a covert sneer, which did not escape the quick observation of Sir Walter Langton. "In certain cases it should be so," returned the King tranquilly; "And in this you will probably make it so! I have received a volume of poems by one Paul Zouche. His genius appears to me deserving of encouragement.
Then he and the person who had awaited his coming, walked together through the scented woods of pine and rhododendrons, and talking in low and confidential voices, slowly disappeared. The Marquis de Lutera was a heavy sleeper, and for some time had been growing stouter than was advisable for the dignity of a Prime Minister.
The great square in front of the Government buildings was now deserted, save for the police and soldiery on guard; but away in the distance could still be heard faint echoes of singing and cheering from the broken-up sections of the crowd that had lately disturbed the peace. "Have you seen the King lately?" enquired Lutera presently. "No."
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