For anything I know, the lady may have been the very pattern of her sex, but where a reigning Prince is concerned scandal cannot be avoided in such a matter.

I had thought that the affair was quite at an end, since my nephew's betrothal to Princess Anna of Eckstein-Schwartzburg is shortly to be announced.

But yesterday I saw the lady to whom I have referred driving on the Digue.

The coincidence of her presence here with my nephew's disappearance is too extraordinary to be disregarded.' 'But how does this theory square with the murder of Reginald Dimmock ?' 'It does not square with it.

My idea is that the murder of poor Dimmock and the disappearance of my nephew are entirely unconnected--unless, indeed, this Berlin actress is playing into the hands of the murderers.
I had not thought of that.' 'Then what do you propose to do to-night ?' 'I propose to enter the house which Miss Racksole entered last night and to find out something definite.' 'I concur,' said Racksole.