"Yes. I felt that it was a trick," said Frank sadly.

"Obliged to stoop to tricks now, my lad. Well, he was delighted with
you, and told me how glad he was for me to have such a friend. He says
you must be of us, Frank, so that in the good times ahead you may be one
of the friends of the rightful king. You'll like Mr George Selby."

"I hate him," said Frank warmly, "for leading you astray, and for trying
to lead me in the same evil way."

"Tchut! Some one coming."

The "some one" proved to be the Prince with a train of gentlemen, nearly
all of whom were Germans, and they passed through the anteroom on their
way out.

"See that tall, light-haired fellow?" said Andrew, as soon as they were
alone again.

"The German baron?"

"Yes, the one in uniform."

"Yes. He's the Baron Steinberg, a colonel in the Hanoverian Guards."

"That's the man. He came over on Saturday. Well, I hate him."

"Why? Because he's a German?"

"Pooh! I shouldn't hate a man because he was a foreigner. I hate him
because he's an overbearing bully, who looks down on everything English.
He quite insulted me yesterday, and I nearly drew upon him. But I
didn't."

"What did he do?"

"Put his hand upon my shoulder, and pushed me aside. `Out of the way,
booby!' he said in German. A rude boor!"

"Oh, it was his rough way, perhaps. You mustn't take any notice of
that."

"Mustn't I?" exclaimed Andrew. "We shall see. That isn't all. I hate
him for another thing."

"You're a queer fellow, Drew. I think you divide the world into two
sets--those you hate and those you love."

"And a good division too. But these German fellows want teaching a
lesson, and somebody will be teaching it if they don't mend. Oh! I
hate that fellow, and so ought you to."

"Why? Because he is a German?"

"Not for that. I'll tell you. I didn't see you yesterday, or I'd have
told you then. You were in the big reception-room?"

"When my father was on duty with his company of the Guards?"

"Yes, and your mother was in the Princess's train."

"Yes, and I didn't get one chance to speak to her."

"Well, that fellow did; he spoke to her twice, and I saw him staring at
her insolently nearly all the time the Princess and her ladies were
there."

"Well?"

"That is all," said Andrew shortly. "They'll be at her drawing-room
this afternoon, and if I were you I should go and stop near Lady Gowan
as much as I could."

"I should like to," said Fr