But I received a letter from Rockwell of the American Legation warning me that if I remained in Austria I should be apprehended, put in jail, hanged and quartered for no other reason on earth than that they suspect me having something to do with her disappearance.

Due, I suppose, to that other miserable affair.

Though I have hunted all over the Continent, I have never seen the Princess Hildegarde since that night at B----.

Where shall I find her?
I haven't the least idea.

But as a last throw, I am going to the principality of Hohenphalia, where she was born and over which she rules with infinite wisdom.