For sixteen years the search had gone on fruitlessly.

The cleverest adventuresses on the continent tried devious tricks to palm themselves off as the lost princess.

From France they had come, from Prussia, Italy, Austria, Russia and England.

But the duke and the chancellor held the secret, unknown to any one else--a locket.

In a garret in Dresden the agents of Herbeck found her, a singer in the chorus of the opera.