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Updated: June 15, 2025
And so it happened that shortly thereafter Captain Ernst Maenck, in command of a troop of the Royal Horse Guards of Lutha, set out toward the Old Forest, which lies beyond the mountains that are visible upon the other side of the plain stretching out before Lustadt.
All that concerns me is that you do not escape again, and you may rest assured that while Ernst Maenck is governor of Blentz you shall not escape and go at large again. "Are the royal apartments in readiness for his majesty, Dr. Stein?" he concluded, turning toward a rat-faced little man with bushy whiskers, who stood just behind him.
"Let the King of Lutha," he said, "be the first to salute Lutha's queen." And so Barney Custer, of Beatrice, was crowned King of Lutha, and Emma became his queen. Maenck died of his wound on the floor of the little room in the east transept of the cathedral of Lustadt beside the body of the king he had slain.
There was only Maenck and his companion ahead of them in the other car, and as there were several roads by which one might reach the main highway the chances were fair that Prince Peter's aide would miss them completely. Already escape seemed assured when the pounding of horses' hoofs upon the roadway behind them arose to blast their new found hope. Barney increased the speed of the car.
Barney rode to the fellow's side, and leaning from the saddle whispered in his ear the word "Slankamen." Would it pass them out as it had passed Maenck in? Barney scarcely breathed as he awaited the result of his experiment. The soldier brought his rifle to present and directed them to pass. With a sigh of relief that was almost audible the two rode into the village and the Austrian lines.
But that is not necessary you conform perfectly to the printed description of you with which the kingdom is flooded. Were that not enough, the fact that you were discovered with old Von der Tann's daughter is sufficient to remove the least doubt as to your identity." "You are governor of Blentz," cried Barney, "and yet you say that you have never seen the king?" "Certainly," replied Maenck.
With bowed head the princess turned her horse into the road that led toward Blentz. Half the troopers preceded her, the balance following behind. Maenck wondered at the promptness of her surrender. "To be a queen ah! that was the great temptation," he thought but he did not know what was passing in the girl's mind.
I have no idea by what route we traveled through the castle, and unless your guards outside this door were bribed they can tell you more about how we got in here than I can provided we entered through that doorway," and the king pointed to the door which had just opened to admit his two visitors. "Oh, pshaw!" exclaimed Maenck.
There he struck a match, found a candle and lighted it. Walking a few steps he came to a figure sleeping upon a pile of clothing. He stooped and shook the sleeper by the shoulder. "Wake up!" he cried in a subdued voice. "Wake up, Prince Peter; I have good news for you." The other opened his eyes, stretched, and at last sat up. "What is it, Maenck?" he asked querulously.
Prince Peter and Maenck followed him. Princess Emma von der Tann sat in her boudoir in her father's castle in the Old Forest. Except for servants, she was alone in the fortress, for Prince von der Tann was in Lustadt.
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