I shall want some hot water, and an able-bodied man and a nurse.' 'Who wants a nurse ?' said a voice, and Nella came quietly in.

'I am a nurse,' she added to the doctor, 'and at your orders.' The next two hours were a struggle between life and death.

The first doctor, a specialist who followed him, Nella, Prince Aribert, and old Hans formed, as it were, a league to save the dying man.

None else in the hotel knew the real seriousness of the case.

When a Prince falls ill, and especially by his own act, the precise truth is not issued broadcast to the universe.
According to official intelligence, a Prince is never seriously ill until he is dead.