He turned them over and over in his hand.

He shook out the folds of the little cloak, and the locket fell on the bed.
"When did you get this ?" he cried excitedly.

"It is her highness'!" "So it is, Captain; but I have carried it about me all these years." "What ?" "Yes, Captain.

Count von Herbeck is a great statesman, but he made a terrible mistake this time.Listen.As sure as we are in this room together, I believe that she whom we call the princess is not the daughter of the grand duke." Carmichael sat down on the edge of the bed, numb and without any clear idea where he was.

From the stony look on his face, Grumbach might have carried the head of Medusa in his hand.