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Updated: June 11, 2025
Together Nikky and Prince Ferdinand William Otto went out and down the great marble staircase. Sentries saluted. Two flunkies in scarlet and gold threw open the doors. A stray dog that had wandered into the courtyard watched them gravely. "I wish," said Prince Ferdinand William Otto, "that I might have a dog." "A dog! Why?" "Well, it would be company. Dogs are very friendly.
"Yes, I am too cautious," he agreed heavily. "You do not know the meaning of love." "Then God grant I may never know, if it is worse than this:" "If I were a man, and loved a woman, I would think less of myself and more of her. When I saw her unhappy and being forced to a terrible thing, I would move heaven and earth to save her." "How would you do it?" said Nikky in a low tone.
"The Scenic Railway is in that direction," observed the Crown Prince, leaning on the balustrade. "If there were no buildings we could see it." "Right here," Nikky was saying to himself. "At this very spot. She held out her arms, and I " "It looks very interesting," said Prince Ferdinand William Otto. "Of course we can't see the costumes, but it is better than nothing."
"I think I'll not tell you, if you don't mind. And I bought a fig lady. I've saved the legs for you." Fortune smiled on Nikky that day. Had, indeed, been smiling daily for some three weeks.
He saw the infuriated face of the Archduchess, and bent toward the Crown Prince with earnestness. "As a matter of fact," he said, "since you have mentioned the subject, I do not wear any either. Your 'Nikky' and I seem most surprisingly to have the same tastes about various things." Annunciata was in the last stages of irritation. There was no mistaking the sneer in Karl's voice.
Things were not being done, he felt, according to specification. And the man spoke, which was also unexpected. "You have the letter?" he asked. "It is here." Luckily he did not speak the patois. "I will take it." Nikky held it out. The man fumbled for it, took it. "Orders have come," said the voice, "that you remain here for the night. In the morning you are to carry dispatches to the city."
They bore marks of struggle, and each had been stabbed through the veins of the neck, as though they had been first subdued and then scientifically destroyed. Nikky, summoned to the Chancellor's house that morning, had been told the facts, and had stood, rather still and tense, while Mettlich recounted them. "Our very precautions are our danger," said the Chancellor.
An old soldier with a wooden leg, and a child, were walking together by the lake, and conversing seriously. A dog was burying a bone under a near-by tree. Toto, true to his instincts, waited until the bone was covered, and then, with calm proprietorship, dug it up and carried it off. Having learned that Nikky now and then carried bones in his pockets, he sat up and presented it to him.
Five minutes later Nikky Larisch was ushered into the red study, and having bowed, an insolent young bow at that, stood and eyed the King. "I have sent for you to release you," said Karl. Nikky drew a long breath. "I am grateful, sire." "You have been interceded for by the Chancellor of Livonia, General Mettlich, who has just gone." Nikky bowed.
They played ball, and the Crown Prince took a lesson in curves. But on his third attempt, he described such a compound curve that the ball disappeared over an adjacent part of the roof, and although Nikky did some blood-curdling climbing along gutters, it could not be found.
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