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Updated: May 11, 2025
The officer mumbled an apology, saluted, and turned toward the door. At his elbow walked the impostor; a cavalry cape that had belonged to the king now covered his shoulders and hid the weapon that pressed its hard warning now and again into the short-ribs of the Blentz officer. Just behind the American came the Princess Emma von der Tann.
The Chap from the Top Floor was there, and Mrs. Dusty Morgan, and little Mrs. Love from Tann Street, and Mrs. 'Ero Edwards's daughter, Queenie, and several people's children. Conversation never wavered as Jay knocked and came in. When you find that your entrance no longer fills a Brown Borough room with sudden silence, you may be glad and know that you have ceased to be a lidy or a toff.
After showing her the rooms that were to be hers the servant left her alone. As soon as he had gone the Princess von der Tann took another turn through the suite, looking to the doors and windows to ascertain how securely she might barricade herself against unwelcome visitors. She found that the three rooms lay in an angle of the old, moss-covered castle wall.
He wondered if Emma von der Tann would be on the station platform, awaiting him then he swooned. Butzow and his seventeen had it all their own way in the courtyard and castle of Blentz. After the first resistance the soldiery of Peter fled to the guardroom. Butzow followed them, and there they laid down their arms.
Emma von der Tann was now quite assured that the poor fellow was indeed quite demented, but she had seen no indications of violence as yet, though when that too might develop there was no telling. However, he was to her Leopold of Lutha, and her father's house had been loyal to him or his ancestors for three hundred years.
He loved Emma von der Tann and he hated Barney Custer hated him with a jealous hatred that was almost fanatic in its intensity. And even that the Princess Emma von der Tann would wed him were she free to wed was a question that was not at all clear in the mind of Barney Custer.
There were the newer nobility of the lowlands many whose patents dated but since the regency of Peter and there were the proud nobility of the highlands the old nobility of which Prince Ludwig von der Tann was the chief.
He was a general now, and commanded a division which had already made its mark upon that man of misfortune von der Tann, a great soldier with no luck. One frosty morning de Vasselot rode out of the little town upon the Loire at the head of a handful of his newly trained men. He was going to take up his appointment: for he held the command of the whole of the cavalry of General Gilbert's division.
Men went wild with enthusiasm as the tall figure rode slowly through the crowd toward the palace. Von der Tann, grim and martial, found his lids damp with the moisture of a great happiness.
With less provocation men had before attempted to seize thrones by more dastardly means. Peter of Blentz was speaking. "Let the coronation proceed," he cried, "that Lutha may have a true king to frustrate the plans of the impostor and the traitors who had supported him." He cast a meaning glance at Prince von der Tann. There were many cries for Peter of Blentz.
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