Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 207: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 199 arisen, requesting to speak. This man was Bolski. Invited to explain, “Monsieur le President,” said he, “here is this inauspicious note, the cause of so much trouble. I have discovered the author of it; it touches the aristocracy of his country very closely, for itis a Thessalian count. Am I to name him?” This declaration produced a general stupefaction ; they looked at each other astonished, dismayed. Dimitri Feodorowitch had yet said nothing of his discovery. He feared so much the prince’s violent and passionate character, that he had preferred to remain perfectly silent until the day wherein court should set. | As soon as Mineleko, on the first evening when he had sent for him, had shown him the’ missive snatched from the princess, Bolski had recognized that the anonymous letter and that note came from the same hand, although both were in a disguised chirography. He had based his inquiries upon that. Mineleko, at the testimony of his agent, bounded like a lion under the lash of his tamer. “T demand,” said he, “that the name of this man may be delivered to public execration |” The anxiety is extreme; they fear! they desire! Who is the vile lord who has not the courage to ac- knowledge his acts. The clear and firm voice of Bolski cast then to the contempt of the public, a name hitherto respected, the name of Heiligenthal. “Tt is Count Waldemar de Heiligenthal!” “Then it is he!—he!—who has killed my servant!” said the prince to his advocate. The prince had desired to pursue the affair, but they made him observe that although it was proba- ble that Heiligenthal was the murderer, the letter Eomichbooks.com |