"Such a lack of respect as a jest of that sort to my master and benefactor is an utter impossibility." "Well, then, sit down, and let us have no play-acting.

Where do you say this thing occurred ?" "Somewhere on the highway between Nagy-Enyed and Felvincz.

She is lying there in the snow, transfixed with an insurgent's lance." The speaker therewith proceeded to relate several episodes in the bloody drama then enacting in Transylvania.
"But why are you so sure that the princess is one of the victims ?" asked the listener.
"The names are all recorded," was the answer.

"The first thing, therefore, for Prince Cagliari to do is to order the recovery of his wife's body, that it may receive proper interment in his family vault.
If you wish to convince yourself of the truth of my statements, I will give you the key to the cipher despatches.

The despatches themselves you will find in a place that is always open to you.