Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 112: what you’re looking at

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104 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER XIII. PLANS TO DESTROY THE KING. When, on the next morning, after that terrible night, Najeska Ivanowna arose, she was very pale. Her nerves had suffered such a great shock that she was still very tremulous. Should she speak of this occurrence to her husband? Notwithstanding the denials of the princess, Wladimir, with the other men and the police, had carefully searched all the corners of the house and the studio, and nothing suspicious had appeared to them anywhere. The old man had come to render an account of this visit to his mistress; but, in spite of the certainty of having found no one, the brave man had remained none the less frantic with dis- quietude, and had he not occasion for being so? A crime committed the day before; a man leaping out of the window and seen by his master; and, now, his mistress declares that an unknown person, after having extinguished her light, had snatched a note which she was holding in her hand; all that was as frightful as mysterious. Najeska Ivanowna was tortured by a fixed idea: if this unknown was her husband! Then, the few words so compromising’ were in his power, some- _thing a thousand times more terrible than if they had fallen in the hands of a thief. My God! what to do to regain possession of that letter? The princess did not know what to decide upon. If she was silent about this incident to the prince, and if it was he who had surprised her, the circum- com (C JOO ES (E(0)