Anguish raced off to the castle, his bodyguard having located him in the meantime.  He was more in need of their protection than ever.  At the castle gates he encountered a party of raving Axphainians, crazed with anger over the flight of the man whose life they had thirsted for so ravenously.  Had he been unprotected, Anguish would have fared badly at their hands, for they were outspoken in their assertions that he had aided Lorry in the escape.  One fiery little fellow cast a glove in the American’s face and expected a challenge.  Anguish snapped his fingers and sarcastically invited the insulter to meet him next winter in a battle with snowballs, upon which the aggressor blasphemed in three languages and three hundred gestures.  Anguish and his men passed inside the gates, which had been barred to the others, and struck out rapidly for the castle doors.

The Princess Yetive was sleeping’ soundly, peacefully, with a smile on her lips, when her Prime Minister sent an excited attendant to inform her of the prisoner’s escape.  She sat up in bed, and, with her hands clasped about her knees, sleepily announced that she would receive him after her coffee was served.  Then she thought of the wild, sweet ride to the monastery, the dangerous return, her entrance to the castle through the secret subterranean passage and the safe arrival in her own room.  All had gone well and he was safe.  She smiled quaintly as she glanced at the bundle of clothes on the floor, blue and black and red.  They had been removed in the underground passage and a loose gown substituted, but she had carried them to her chamber with the intention of placing them for the time being in the old mahogany chest that held so many of her childhood treasures.  Springing out of bed, she opened the chest, cast them into its depths, turned and removed the key which had always remained in the lock.  Then she summoned her maids.

Her uncle and aunt, the Countess Dagmar (whose merry brown eyes were so full of pretended dismay that the Princess could scarcely restrain a smile), and Gaspon, the minister of finance, were awaiting her appearance.  She heard the count’s story of the escape, marveled at the prisoner’s audacity, and firmly announced that everything possible should be done to apprehend him.  With a perplexed frown on her brow and a dubious twist to her lips, she said;

“I suppose I must offer a reward.”

“Certainly!” exclaimed her uncle.

“About fifty gavvos, uncle?”

“Fifty!” cried the two men, aghast.

“Isn’t that enough?”

“For the murderer of a prince?” demanded Gaspon.  “It would be absurd, your Highness.  He is a most important person.”

“Quite so; he is a most important person.  I think I’ll offer five thousand gavvos.”

“More like it.  He is worth that, at least,” agreed Uncle Caspar.

“Beyond a doubt,” sanctioned Gaspon.

“I am glad you do not consider me extravagant,” she said, demurely.  “You may have the placards printed at once,” she went on, addressing the treasurer.  “Say that a reward of five thousand gavvos will be paid to the person who delivers Grenfall Lorry to me.”