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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Sir, you have no right to question the police so pointedly," said Niclas, sternly. "You are here to be questioned, and not to question." The king laughingly arrested the uplifted arm of his companion. "Mon Dieu," he murmured, "do you not see that this is amusing me highly? Ask, sir, I am ready to answer." "Have you a pass?" "Yes, sir." "Then give it to me to vise."
The first is for respectable people, the second for those who have nothing, and are nothing." "Then the last is for us," said the king, laughing. "Is it not so, brother Henry? it is best for us to go in the drag-boat." "That would be best, brother Frederick." "Have the kindness to call our servant to take the bag, and you, Mr. Niclas, please give us a guide to show us to the canal."
The king laughingly took his friend's arm, and nodded kindly to Madame Niclas as he went down the steps.
"Now, it is only necessary to put the state seal under it, and we shall be free; but how will we get a light?" "I cannot tell who is a rascal, you may be one for aught I know." Balby uttered an angry exclamation and stepped nearer to the daring postmaster, while his servant shook his fist threateningly at Niclas. The king dispelled their anger with a single glance.
Niclas, confusedly, "musicians are seldom rich, but live from hand to mouth, and must thank God if their clothes are good and clean. Yours are entirely new, and you need no baggage." The king laughed merrily. "Can we now go?" he asked. "Yes; but how, sir? You doubtlessly heard that the postilion left as soon as you entered the house."
"Sir," he said to Niclas, "God made my face, and it is not my fault if it does not please you, but concerning our passports, they are lying well preserved in my carpet-bag. I should think that would suffice you." "No, that does not suffice me," screamed Niclas. "Show me your passports if I am to believe that you are not vagabonds."
His demand had not been attended to; he repeated it for the third time. "Is it customary here to demand passports of travellers?" asked a commanding voice from the stage. Niclas, and taking the two mysterious cases from the stage, he placed them before the strangers. "Let us go into the house," whispered the king to his friends.
"That we do not possess them," said the king; "vraiment, you are right, our means are very insufficient, and as the inhabitants of Grave will not grant us the rights of citizens, it is better for us to leave immediately. Have, therefore, the goodness to furnish us with the means of doing so." "There are two ways, an expensive and a cheap one," said Niclas, proudly: "extra post, or the drag-boat.
Niclas saw nothing great stamped upon my brow; to him I had the face of a criminal my passport only made an honest man of me. Come, friends, let us refresh ourselves." While eating, the king chatted pleasantly with Balby of the charming adventures of the day.
When Niclas received the passport from the king's hand his countenance cleared, and he made the two gentlemen a graceful bow, and begged them to excuse the severity that his duty made necessary. "We have now entirely convinced you that we are honest people," said the king, smiling, "and you will forgive us that we have so little baggage." "Well, I understand," said Mr.
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