Still, Hillars, with all his love of
adventure, was not ordinarily reckless. Yet, if he met the Princess,
she would find a willing tool in him for her slightest caprice.
Whatever happened the brunt would fall upon him. My opinion, formed
from various stories I had heard of the Princess, was not very
flattering to her. The letter and its possibilities disturbed me.
The second letter was from headquarters in New York.
"DEAR WINTHROP--We want a good Sunday special. Her Serene Highness the
Princess Hildegarde of Hohenphalia has taken it into her head to
disappear again. Go over and see Rockwell in B----; he will give you a
good yarn. It has never been in type yet, and I daresay that it will
make good reading. London seems particularly dull just now, and you
can easily turn over your affairs to the assistant. This woman's life
is more full of romance than that of any other woman of the courts of
Europe. The most interesting part of it is her reputation is said to
be like that of Caesar's wife--above reproach. Get a full history of
her life and of the Prince whom she is to marry.
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