One of the Princess's ladies begged to enter; a man, it appeared, had brought a line for the Freiherr von Gondremark.

It proved to be a pencil billet, which the crafty Greisengesang had found the means to scribble and despatch under the very guns of Otto; and the daring of the act bore testimony to the terror of the actor.

For Greisengesang had but one influential motive: fear.

The note ran thus: 'At the first council, procuration to be withdrawn .-- CORN.

GREIS.' So, after three years of exercise, the right of signature was to be stript from Seraphina.