Then he cried out: "By heaven, I'll make you pay for this some day! You shall learn what a man can do with a woman such as you are! You--" Just at that moment a tall figure leaped from the shadows and confronted the quivering musician.

A heavy hand fell upon his collar and he was almost jerked from his feet, half choked, half paralysed with alarm.

Not a word was spoken.

Chase whirled the presumptuous suitor about until he faced the gates to the garden.

Then, with more force than he realised, he applied his boot to the person of the offender--once, twice, thrice! The military jacket of the recipient of these attentions was of the abbreviated European pattern and the trousers were skin tight.
The Princess started back with a cry of alarm--ay, terror.