If there were a man in Hungary it would be different; but riots are not revolutions." "That is quite true," said Armitage quietly.
"But," observed the Spaniard, "if the Archduke Karl had not gone out of his head and died in two or three dozen places, so that no one is sure he is dead at all, things at Vienna might be rather more interesting.
Karl took a son with him into exile.

Suppose one or the other of them should reappear, stir up strife and incite rebellion-- ?" "Such speculations are quite idle," commented Chauvenet.

"There is no doubt whatever that Karl is dead, or we should hear of him." "Of course," said the German.

"If he were not, the death of the old Emperor would have brought him to life again." "The same applies to the boy he carried away with him--undoubtedly dead--or we should hear of him.

Karl disappeared soon after his son Francis was born.