l 'eem lead to
ze wood. 'E shall breeng 'er."

Miss Lambart protested that to wander in the Deeping woods with a
German count would hardly be proper.

"Brobare? What ees 'brobare'?" said the archduke.

"_Convenable_," said Miss Lambart.

The archduke protested that such considerations must not be allowed to
militate against his being set free to return to Cassel-Nassau at the
earliest possible moment. Miss Lambart said that they must. In the
end it was decided that a motor-car should be procured from Rowington
and that Miss Lambart should guide the archduke and the count to the
entrance of the path to the knoll, the count should convey to the
princess her father's command to return to the Grange, and if she
should refuse to obey, he should haul her by force to the car.

Miss Lambart made no secret of her strong conviction that he would
never set eyes, much less hands, on the princess. Count Zerbst's
smooth pink face flushed rose-pink all round his fierce little
mustache, which in some inexplicable, but unfortunate, fashion
accentuated the extraordinary insignificance of his nose; his small
eyes sparkled; and he muttered fiercely something about "sdradegy." He
looked at Miss Lambart very unamiably. He felt that she was not
impressed by him as were the maidens of Cassel-Nassau; and he resented
it. He resolved to capture the princess at any cost.

The archduke fumed furiously to find, next morning in the _Morning
Post_ the true story of his daughter's disappearance; and he was fuming
still when the car came from Rowington. It was a powerful car and a
weight-carrier; Miss Lambart, who had telephoned for it, had been
careful to demand a weight-carrier. With immense fuss the archduke
disposed himself in the back of the tonneau which he filled with
billowy curves. The moment he was settled in it Miss Lambart sprang to
the seat beside the driver, and insisted on keeping it that she might
the more easily direct his course.

They were not long reaching the wood; and the chauffeur raised no
objection to taking the car up the broad turfed aisle from which ran
the path to the knoll. At the entrance of it the count stepped out of
the car; and the archduke gave him his final instructions with the air
of a Roman father; he was to bring the princess in any fashion, but he
was to bring her at once.

In a last generous outburst he cried: "Pooll 'er by the ear! Bud
breeng 'er."

The count said that he would, and en