Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 186: what you’re looking at

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178 HER ROYAL LOVER. CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRINCE SEES HIS WIFE. The whole capital of Thessaly, still under the shock of the drama of the previous day, learned, with stupefaction the next morning, on awakening, that, notwithstanding the serious condition of the ambassadress, the Prince of Mineleko had departed for Caucasus. “Urgent business, dispatches of the greatest im- portance,” he had alleged, in order to account for this precipitate departure, which resembled a flight. At the office of the chief of police, this voyage thwarted them very much, for, then, they desig- nated the assailant. Very privately as yet, while waiting until they dared to speak more openly, they were freely uttering the name of the prince himself. Everybody was coupling this strange event with the murder committed at his house, and they even blamed the government for having allowed this man to depart, who was unquestionably the assailant, and very probably, the assassin besides. Vague suspicions, excited especially by the evi- dence of the flower-girls of the forest, were already propagated in the town. They were recalling the monarch’s very remarkable attentions to the beau- tiful ambassadress, wild rumors were reported since then, about the deposition of the prince, and, from all that, each one drew his conclusions. How true facts will percolate in spite of all! What is this impalpable exhalation which disen- gages itself of an event which one would desire to mysteriously conceal, and which, whatsoever one Gomilcbooks. co m =») we ‘.~ os ee ee EE te ee ee ee ee —_—"