Then we will sit down and decipher it together; and if it contains the name I am so anxious to hear, you shall see how a lioness can kiss her tamer's feet." The prince listened in silence.

What effect her words were producing in his bosom, she could only conjecture.

She threw herself back on her sofa with a smile on her face.
"What do you say ?" she asked.

"It is not yet too late to find some one at the war office to do your bidding.

Indeed, the hour is well suited for a confidential mission of that sort.