Her Royal Lover: A Novel — page 211: what you’re looking at

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HER ROYAL LOVER. 203 rendered his name to universal condemnation, Hei- hgenthal was not ignorant that Mineleko had con- tinually repeated to whomsoever would listen to him, “If ever I discover the cowardly author of this infernal letter—and I will discover him, though I move heaven and earth!—whoever he may be, whatsoever place he may inhabit, I will go and I will kill him!” The prince knew him now, and he was the man to execute his threat. He would as- suredly find means to put his hand on Heiligenthal. Already, Waldemar believed he perceived that some time since, a man whom he recognized to have for- mally seen attached to the Caucasian Embassy, ap- y peared to shadow him wherever he went. He knew that through the influence that the King of Thessaly had been able to exercise over the Em- peror of Caucasus, Mineleko having been sent in twenty-four hours after his trial, by his govern- ment, on a distant mission to the Celestial Empire, to decide a question about the frontiers, could not yet appear. Did the ambassador fear that Hei- ligenthal might flee from a country in which he was now in disgrace? Yes, certainly! and he had him secretly watched so that he might not escape him. But Mineleko had no need to fear. Waldemar, chained to his employment, too poor to travel, was obliged to remain. The terrible ambassador would find his prey again, however late it might be. Ecomicbooks.com