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The Puppet Crown

CHAPTER V
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That is the wedding gift which he offers to her Highness.
One way or the other, we have nothing to fear." "O!" cried the king, "I had forgotten that magnanimity.

His disappearance is no longer a mystery.

He is dead." His auditors could not repress the start which this declaration caused them to make.
"Sire," said the chancellor, quietly, "princes are not assassinated these days.

Our worry is perhaps all needless.

The prince is young, and sometimes youth flings off the bridle and runs away.


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