I am curious to learn what Von Kircheisen has told her." "I imagined that you would be, and ordered your carriage here, as you could not well ride upon horseback with the heavy rolls of gold; and if it is your pleasure, I will order the footman to place the box, into which I have put them, in the carriage." "No, no; I beg you to let me carry them," cried the prince, seizing the box with both hands.

"It is truly heavy, but an agreeable burden, and if it lames my arm I shall bethink myself of the miraculous elixir, which will give me courage and strength.

Farewell, your excellency; I shall hurry on to Charlottenburg!" The prince hastened to his carriage, and ordered the coachman to drive at full speed to the villa.

Thanks to this order, he reached it in about an hour.

No one was there to receive him upon his arrival.