he was guilty of the crime," boasted Anguish, complacently
measure.
"Oh, I just guessed at it!"
"God save us!" gasped Baron Dangloss, Chief of Police.
"Guessed at it?" cried Mizrox.
"That's it. It was a bold stroke, but it won. Now, I'll tell
Prince. There was no way on earth to prove it, however, and I'll
me. He had tried to abduct the Princess, and he was madly
was not certain that Lorenz would lose, so he adopted a clever
suspicion on the other. These deductions I made soon after the
morning, at the hotel, I made up my mind to denounce him suddenly
exhibition as that which you saw. It was clear to me that he had
not dream it was Berrowag. Lorry's sensational appearance, when
it made it all the more necessary that I should take the risk
his guilt. The only way to accuse him was to do it boldly and
You all know how the 'bluff' worked."
"And you had no more proof than this?" asked Dangloss, weakly.
"That's all," laughed the delighted strategist.
Dangloss stared at him for a moment, then threw up his hands and
utter disbelief, no one knew. The others covered Anguish with
confidence paralyzed the people. The only one who was not
well."
"You might at least say I did it to the queen's taste," growled
XXVII
ON THE BALCONY AGAIN
and anxiety of weeks, fatigued by the sleepless nights just past,
deathlike sleep of the utterly fagged. Yetive, in her darkened
throne on which cobwebs multiplied. Grenfall Lorry saw in his
standing guard over him with a brave, stiff back and chin
was tranquil in the assurance that he had been forgiven by the
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