Can I give you a lift anywhere ?"' Although Rischenheim had intended to go first to the palace, Anton's offer seemed to give him a good excuse for drawing the more likely covert first.
"I was going to the palace to find out where the king is.

I want to see him, if he'll give me a minute or two," he remarked.
"I'll drive you there afterwards.

Jump up.

That your cab?
Here you are, cabman," and flinging the cabman a crown, he displaced the bouquet and made room for Rischenheim beside him.
Anton's horses, of which he was not a little proud, made short work of the distance to my home.

The phaeton rattled up to the door and both young men got out.