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Can't I still play the king? Yes, if I come in time, Rischenheim shall have his audience of the king of Zenda, and the king will be very gracious to him, and the king will take his copy of the letter from him! Oh, Rischenheim shall have an audience of King Rudolf in the castle of Zenda, never fear!"
I go often to the spot, and recall in thought all that passed when he came the first time to Zenda, and again on his second coming. For I mourn him as a man mourns a trusted leader and a loved comrade, and I should have asked no better than to be allowed to serve him all my days. Yet I serve the queen, and in that I do most truly serve her lover. Times change for all of us.
They were also informed that a friend of the King's was suspected to be forcibly confined within the Castle of Zenda. His rescue was one of the objects of the expedition; but, it was added, the King's main desire was to carry into effect certain steps against his treacherous brother, as to the precise nature of which they could not at present be further enlightened.
"No; I came straight from the Castle of Zenda." "But," she cried, "he expected to find you at the hunting lodge. Ah, but now I recollect! The Count of Rischenheim was greatly vexed to find, on his return, that his cousin was gone." "Ah, he was gone! Now I see! Rischenheim brought a message from me to Count Rupert." "And they missed one another, your Majesty?" "Exactly, my dear young lady.
"It's very likely, for, by Heaven, girls know wonderful things!" smiled Rupert; but he shut the door and came quickly back to the table, now frowning again. "Come, tell me, how did they make a fool of you, or why did you make a fool of me, cousin?" While Rischenheim related how he had been trapped and tricked at the Castle of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau made a very good breakfast.
"Have you left me any honour?" "Oh, come, to play a little trick on a girl " "You can spare me that. Colonel Sapt, if you would not have me utterly a villain if you would not have your King rot in Zenda, while Michael and I play for the great stake outside You follow me?" "Ay, I follow you." "We must act, and quickly! You saw tonight you heard tonight " "I did," said he.
Yet when I observe thus calmly and with good sense on the matter to the Constable of Zenda, he shakes his head and answers, "But Rudolf Rassendyll knew from the first that he would come again to Strelsau and engage young Rupert point to point. Else why did he practise with the foils so as to be a better swordsman the second time than he was the first?
Sapt knew and trusted him, for he had been with us all through the siege of Zenda, when Michael kept the king a prisoner, and he bore marks given him by Rupert of Hentzau's ruffians. He now held a commission as lieutenant in the cuirassiers of the King's Guard. He noticed Sapt's bearing, for he cried out in a low voice, "Anything wrong, sir?"
For example, in the opening years of this twentieth century the witty historian of the kingdom of Zenda that land of irresponsible adventure which lies seemingly between the Forest of Arden and the unexplored empire of Weissnichtwo this historian, after regaling us with brisk and brilliant chronicles of that strange country and of the adjacent territory, apparently wearied of these pleasant inventions of his and wisht to come to a closer grapple with the realities of life and character.
One had read I think I can remember the books in the order in which they were borrowed 'Thelma, 'Under Two Flags, 'David Copperfield, 'The Story of an African Farm, 'A Study in Scarlet, 'The Sign of the Four, 'The Prisoner of Zenda, 'The Dolly Dialogues, 'The Yellow Aster, 'The Superfluous Woman, and 'Ideala. This is a fair sample of the other seven. Not so, however, with Messrs.
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