by Grumkow, as spy
upon one of the Queen's Maids of Honor,--suspected by him to be a
No-maid of Dishonor, and of ill intentions too,--who lodges in that part
of the Palace: of whom Herr Grumkow wishes intensely to know, "Has she
an intrigue with Creutz the new Finance-Minister, or has she not?" "Has,
beyond doubt!" the Spectre-Scullion hopes he has discovered, before
exorcism. Upon which Grumkow, essentially illuminated as to the required
particular, manages to get the Spectre-Scullion loose again, not quite
hanged; glozing the matter off to his Majesty on his return: for the
rest, ruins entirely the Creutz speculation; and has the No-maid called
of Honor--with whom Creutz thought to have seduced the young King also,
and made the young King amenable--dismissed from Court in a peremptory
irrefragable manner. This is the secret of the Spectre-Scullion, fully
revealed by Wilhelmina many years after.

This one short glance into the Satan's Invisible-World of the Berlin
Palace, we could not but afford the reader, when an actual Goblin of it
happened to be walking in our neighborhood. Such an Invisible-World of
Satan exists in most human Houses, and in all human Palaces;--with its
imps, familiar demons, spies, go-betweens, and industrious bad-angels,
continually mounting and descending by THEIR Jacob's-Ladder, or Palace
Backstairs: operated upon by Conjurers of the Grumkow-Creutz or other
sorts. Tyrannous Mamsell Leti, [Leti, Governess to Wilhelmina, but soon
dismissed for insolent cruelty and other bad conduct, was daughter of
that Gregorio Leti ("Protestant Italian Refugee," "Historiographer of
Amsterdam," &c. &c.), who once had a pension in this country; and who
wrote History-Books, a _Life of Cromwell_ one of them, so regardless
of the difference between true and false.] treacherous Mamsell Ramen,
valet-surgeon Eversmann, and plenty more: readers of Wilhelmina's Book
are too well acquainted with them. Nor are expert Conjurers wanting;
capable to work strange feats with so plastic an element as Friedrich
Wilhelm's mind. Let this one short glimpse of such Subterranean World be
sufficient indication to the reader's fancy.

Creutz was not dismissed, as some people had expected he might
be. Creutz continues Finance-Minister; makes a great figure in the
fashionable Berlin world in these coming years, and is much talked of in
the old Books,--though, as he works mostly underground, and merely does
budgets and finance-matters wi