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If the Princess Emma knew that your majesty believed her father to be a traitor that the order for his arrest and execution but awaited your signature I doubt not that she would gladly become queen of Lutha, with her father's life and liberty as a wedding gift." For several minutes no one spoke after Count Zellerndorf had ceased. Leopold sat looking at the toe of his boot.
He has convinced Prince Ludwig that Leopold is dead, and for the sake of Lutha to save her from civil strife my prince has patched a truce with Peter; though unless I mistake the character of the latter and the temper of the former it will be short-lived.
Now she was positive that she was indeed with the mad king of Lutha, but she had no fear of him, for since childhood she had heard her father scout the idea that Leopold was mad. For what other purpose would he hasten toward the Old Forest than to take refuge in her father's castle upon the banks of the Tann at the forest's verge?
"But were we in doubt we have the word of the Princess Emma that you are Leopold. Did she not admit it to you, Butzow?" "When she thought his majesty dead she admitted it," replied Butzow. "We gain nothing by discussing the matter," said Maenck shortly. "You are Leopold of Lutha. Prince Peter says that you are mad.
The man to whom she was to be married was not Barney Custer he was Leopold of Lutha! A hundred mad schemes rioted through her brain. The wedding must not go on! But how was she to avert it? The king was within a few paces of her now. There was a smile upon his lips, and in that smile she saw the final confirmation of her fears.
Lutha would be lost should the truth be known that the king was dead, for there was no heir of closer blood connection with the royal house than Prince Peter of Blentz, whose great-grandmother had been a Rubinroth princess. Slowly, at last, she wrote as follows: SIRE: The king's will is law. That was all.
"He who claimed to be Leopold of Lutha," he said, "was but a mad adventurer. He would have seized the throne of the Rubinroths had his nerve not failed him at the last moment. He has fled. The true king is dead. Now I, Prince Regent of Lutha, declare the throne vacant, and announce myself king!" There were a few scattered cheers and some hissing.
"I have called you king, and after that I could never serve the coward who sits now upon the throne of Lutha. I have made up my mind during this long ride from Lustadt, and I have come to the decision that I should prefer to raise corn in Nebraska with you rather than serve in the court of an ingrate."
Of course she might be mad, after all, and possibly the bandit, too, but it seemed unbelievable that the officer was mad and his entire troop of cavalry should be composed of maniacs, yet they all persisted in speaking and acting as though he were indeed the mad king of Lutha and the young girl at his side a princess. From pitying the girl he had come to feel a little bit in awe of her.
"Above his dead body I swore to serve Leopold of Lutha as loyally as the poor, mistaken child had served me, your majesty," and Barney looked straight into the eyes of him who lay upon the little iron cot. For a moment the man held his eyes upon those of the American, but finally, under the latter's steady gaze, they dropped and wandered.
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