Indeed, to judge from your appearance
there can be no doubt about it. Remember I warned you."
The Prince was pale with fury.
"No one could foresee this," he exclaimed. "He has walked into the
lion's den."
"Then," Lady Carey said, "I am quite prepared to hear that he tamed
the lion."
"If there was one person living whom I could have sworn that this
man dared not visit, it was our Emperor," the Prince said. "It is
only a few years since, through this man's intrigues, Germany was
shamed before the world."
"And yet," Lady Carey said sweetly, "the Emperor has received him."
"I have private intelligence from Berlin," Saxe Leinitzer answered.
"Mr. Sabin was in possession of a letter written to him by the
Emperor Frederick, thanking him for some service or other; and the
letter was a talisman."
"How like him," Lady Carey murmured, "to have the letter."
"What a pity," the Prince sneered, "that such devotion should remain
unrewarded."
Lady Carey sighed.
"He has broken my heart," she replied.
The Prince threw out his hands.
"You and I," he cried, "why do we behave like children! Let us
start afresh. Listen! The Emperor has summoned me to Berlin."
"Dear me," Lady Carey murmured. "I am afraid you will have a most
unpleasant visit."
"I dare not go," the Prince said slowly.
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