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The two men put spurs to their mounts, and Barney Custer galloped across the northern boundary of Lutha just ahead of a troop of Luthanian cavalry, as had his father thirty years before; but a royal princess had accompanied the father only a soldier accompanied the son. "What's the matter, Vic?" asked Barney Custer of his sister. "You look peeved." "I am peeved," replied the girl, smiling.
His fatal likeness to the description of the mad king of Lutha warned him from intercourse with the men of Lutha until he might know which were friends and which enemies of the hapless monarch. Dawn found him still upon his way, but with the determination fully crystallized to hail the first man he met and ask the way to Tann.
"There is another condition." "Well?" "You must promise upon your royal honor that Ludwig, Prince von der Tann, remain chancellor of Lutha during your life or his." "Very well," assented the king. "I promise," and again he half rose from his cot. "Hold on a minute," admonished the American; "there is yet one more condition of which I have not made mention."
What has become of the Royal Ring of the Kings of Lutha?" "I'm sure I don't know, Joseph," replied the young man. "Should I be wearing a royal ring?" "The profaning miscreants!" cried Joseph. "They have dared to filch from you the great ring that has been handed down from king to king for three hundred years. When did they take it from you?"
"How am I to know that you will not drag me back to the terrors of that awful castle, and to the poisonous potions of the new physician Peter has employed to assassinate me? I can trust none. "Go away and leave me. I do not want to be king. I wish only to go away as far from Lutha as I can get and pass the balance of my life in peace and security. Peter may have the crown.
"When I received my commission," replied Butzow, quietly, "I swore to protect the person of the king with my life, and while I live no man shall affront Leopold of Lutha in my presence, or threaten his safety else he accounts to me for his act. Return your sword, Captain Maenck, nor ever again draw it against the king while I be near." Slowly Maenck sheathed his weapon.
With Von der Tann out of the way there would be none powerful enough to question our right to the throne of Lutha after poor Leopold passes away." "You forget that Leopold has escaped," suggested Coblich, "and that there is no immediate prospect of his passing away." "He must be retaken at once, Coblich!" cried Prince Peter of Blentz.
The American raised his left hand, upon the third finger of which gleamed the great ruby of the royal ring of the kings of Lutha. Even Peter of Blentz started back in surprise as his eyes fell upon the ring. Where had the man come upon it? Prince von der Tann dropped to one knee before Mr.
As proof that you are not the king he has offered the evidence of your own denials made not only to his officers and soldiers, but to the man who is now your loyal lieutenant, Butzow, and to the Princess Emma von der Tann, my daughter. "He insists that he is fighting for the welfare of Lutha, while we are traitors, attempting to seat an impostor upon the throne of the dead Leopold.
To be quite candid, it seems to me that it may be necessary to my future welfare vitally necessary, I may say to know precisely how all this occurred, and just what influence you have over Leopold of Lutha. Who was it that acted as the go-between in the king's negotiations with you, or rather, yours with the king? And what argument did you bring to bear to force Leopold to the action he took?"
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