He sought exile for reasons--for the reason that his son Francis, who has been plotting the murder of the new Emperor-king, _is not his son_!" "What!" roared the Baron.
"It is as I have said.

The faithlessness of his wife, and not madness, drove him into exile.

He intrusted that paper to me and swore me to carry it to Vienna if Francis ever got too near the throne.

It is certified by half a dozen officials authorized to administer oaths in Canada, though they, of course, never knew the contents of the paper to which they swore him.

He even carried it to New York and swore to it there before the consul-general of Austria-Hungary in that city.