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Baldos looked first at her and then at the sarcastic old general. Yetive and her companions were waiting for them at the fountain, a hundred yards ahead. "You may go, Baldos," said Beverly in low tones. "I am not fatigued nor " he began eagerly. "Go!" snarled Marlanx. "Am I to repeat a command to you? Do you ignore the word of your mistress?" There was a significant sneer in the way he said it.
Am I not as good as Lorenz? Why not give " began Gabriel, viciously, but Yetive arose, and, with gleaming eyes and flushing cheeks, interrupted him. "Go! I will not hear you not one word!" He passed from the room without another word. Her Court saw her standing straight and immovable, her white face transfigured.
After, viewing the body of Lorenz as it lay in the sarcophagus of the royal palace, where it had been borne at the command of the Princess Yetive, he demanded audience with his son's betrothed, and it was with fear that she prepared for the trying ordeal, an interview with the grief-crazed old man.
There was a chorus of coughs and a round of sly looks. "She could hardly ask you to die," said Yetive, addressing him for the first time. "A princess is like April weather, madam," said Baldos, with rare humor, and the laugh was general, Yetive resolved to talk privately with this excellent wit before the hour was over. She was confident that he knew her to be the princess.
"But I did come to see you and not Her Royal Highness the Princess Yetive of Graustark stark. How was I to know?" he cried impulsively. "But you are no longer ignorant," she said, looking from the window. "I thought you said you were a mere woman!" "I am and that is the trouble!" she said, slowly turning her eyes back to him. Then she abruptly sank to the window seat near his head.
Beverly and the princess exchanged glances in which consternation was difficult to conceal. It was clear to Beverly that Yetive had not told her husband of the escape. "I don't know anything about Baldos," she answered steadily. "Last night someone shot at him in the park." "The deuce you say!"
She wondered how Yetive could be so calm and unmoved in the face of all this homage. Past the great Hotel Regengetz and the Tower moved the gay procession, into the broad stretch of boulevard that led to the gates of the palace grounds. The gates stood wide open and inviting.
I have read that the hangings in the bed-chamber of the late Princess Yetive are the most wonderful in the whole world. The throne chair in the great audience chamber is of solid gold and weighs nearly three thousand pounds. It is studded with diamonds, rubies " "Great Scott, Lou, where did you learn all this?" he gasped, his eyes bulging. " emeralds and other precious stones.
The Countess Dagmar found it difficult at first to meet the eye of the new guard, but he was so punctiliously oblivious that her courage was restored. She even went so far as to whisper in Beverly's ear that he did not remember her face, and probably would not recognize Yetive as one of the eavesdroppers.
"And what's more, I don't take any stock in cheap novels in which American heroes go about marrying into royal families and all that sort of rot. It isn't done, Lou. If you want to marry into a royal family you've got to put up the coin." "Prince Robin's mother, the poor Princess Yetive, married an American for love, let me remind you." "Umph! Where is this Groostock anyway?"
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