"Is there no way," she said, "that I, the daughter of your king, can save them?
I will appeal to the people!" The prince met her eyes steadily, adoringly.
"It would avail nothing," he said, "they are at one with the law.
Yet there is a way that I can help you.

If Mr.St.George returns, as he must, he and his friends shall be set adrift with due ceremony--but in an imperial airship, with a man secretly in control.

By night they can escape to their yacht.

This I will do--upon one condition." "Oh--what is that ?" she asked, and for all the reticence of her eagerness, her voice was a betrayal.
Prince Tabnit turned to the window.

Below, in the palace grounds, and without, in the Eurychorus, a thousand people awaited the opening of the palace doors.