By some strange intervention of Providence he had gone with his governess and other members of the party to the luggage van in the fore part of the train, which had stopped on a side track below the station.

The collision was from the rear, a broken rail throwing a locomotive into the Princess's coach.

This providential escape of the young Prince preserved the unbroken line of the present royal family.

If he had been killed, the dynasty would have come to an end, and, I am telling no secret, sir, when I say that a new form of government would have followed." "What sort of government ?" "A more modern system, sir.

Perhaps socialistic.