There are five trying for it.
Count Daschoff, the Minister of the Court, has the say as to who gets in of those five.

T.and I called on him with my credentials just as he was going out.

Never have I seen such a swell.

He made us feel like dudes from Paterson, New Jersey.

He had three diamond eagles in an astrakan cap, a white cloak, a gray uniform, top boots and three rows of medals.