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was an outlandish Serbian method of merrymaking. Alec, having seen the carriage started on its short journey, approached Stampoff and wrung his hand. "It was a near thing, General," he said. "Five minutes later and we should have been in another world." He spoke in French, and Beaumanoir heard him. "Not a bit of it," said he. "That anarchist johnny carries about with him the finest assortment of bombs.--By the way, where is the bally thing? I'll swear I put it in my pocket when I grabbed that joker through the door." His hurried search was not rewarded, and Alec, scarcely understanding him, asked Stampoff who had given the alarm. "Bosko, of course. He came tearing up to the War Office like a madman. Had any other brought the same message I really should not have believed it." "Then you heard nothing of a waiter from this hotel, a waiter named Sobieski?" "Nothing, your Majesty. Bosko was undoubtedly the first to arrive with the news, and all was quiet at the President's as I rode past. I noted that especially. By the way, Prince Michael is here; came this morning, I am told. The Princess accompanied him. Does your Majesty intend going to them at once? I have already sent an orderly to announce your safety." Alec looked at his watch. "Five minutes past four," he said. "No, General, I am due at the university. I like to be punctual; but this slight delay was unavoidable. I shall see you at dinner to-night, and I suppose you will clear the city of these idiots of the Seventh Regiment before sunset. By the way, a word before we part. You saw the lady whom I brought from the hotel and placed in the carriage?" "Saw her, your Majesty? Judas! Thirty years ago I should have striven to rescue her myself." "It was she who rescued me, General, she and the little humpbacked man. Exactly how they managed it I do not know as yet; but to-night you shall hear the whole story. At present, it is enough that you should be told the one really important fact. She is my promised wife." With a smile and a farewell hand-wave, Alec mounted a troop horse and rode away with Beaumanoir in the direction of the university. Stampoff looked after him with an expression of utmost dismay on his weatherbeaten face. "Gods!" he muttered. "A wife, and a pretty foreigner too, that is a bird of another color! What will Prince and Princess Delgrado say now, I wonder? What will Kosnovia say, when it is in every man's mind that you shoul
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