This done, Charlie drove out with the count to the village where Colonel Jamieson's regiment was quartered, and where his return was received with delight by Harry, and with great pleasure by Major Jervoise and his fellow officers.

He was obliged to give a short outline of what he had been doing since he left, but put off going into details for a future occasion.
"And are you coming back to us now, Charlie ?" Harry asked.
"Certainly.

My success in the diplomatic way was not sufficiently marked for them to be likely to employ me in that line again.

We must return this afternoon, as the king has invited us both to sup with him tonight." Two days later, Count John Staroski started upon his return journey, much pleased with the reception he had met with from the King of Sweden, and determined to work vigorously, among the nobles of his acquaintance, to bring about the dethronement of Augustus of Saxony.

Charlie had already seen Count Piper, who had told him that, although the king and himself were both well satisfied with the work he had done, there was not at present any mission of the same sort on which he could be employed.