For you and I, waking first, would find the lodge a mass of flames.

We should have to run for our lives." "What! Should we make no effort to rouse the others ?" "Indeed, sir, we should do all that men could do; we should even risk death by suffocation." "But we should fail, in spite of our heroism, should we ?" "Alas, sir, in spite of all our efforts we should fail.

The flames would envelop the lodge in one blaze; before help could come, the lodge would be in ruins, and my unhappy master and poor Herbert would be consumed to ashes." "Hum!" "They would, at least, sir, be entirely unrecognizable." "You think so ?" "Beyond doubt, if the oil and the firewood and the candle were placed to the best advantage." "Ah, yes.

And there would be an end of Rudolf Rassendyll ?" "Sir, I should myself carry the tidings to his family." "Whereas the King of Ruritania--" "Would enjoy a long and prosperous reign, God willing, sir." "And the Queen of Ruritania, James ?" "Do not misunderstand me, sir.

They could be secretly married.