'God guard the right'—the pearl and the kingdom are here."
"Wrong, my good friend. The kingdom is there, where you found me in England; and so, too, is the pearl. For there is no kingdom like the kingdom of love, count, and no pearl like a good woman."
"But, Majesty——"
"Good-night, count, and many thanks for your hospitality. You are a little upset to-night, but no doubt you will be all right again in the morning. I will walk to the station and alone, if it is all the same to you."
"Majesty!"
"Dreams, count, dreams. The riddle is solved, my friend. Good luck to your country and good-bye!"
And, setting his back to the palace and the lights and the fluttering flag, and his face to the land that held her, turned and went his way—to the West—to England—to those things which are higher than crowns and better than sceptres and more precious than thrones and ermine.
Cleek of Scotland Yard (1914)
PROLOGUE The Affair of the Man Who Vanished
EPILOGUE The Affair of the Man Who Was Found
“My only kingdom is here ... in this dear woman’s arms. Walk with me, Ailsa ... as my queen and my wife.”
PROLOGUE The Affair of the Man Who Vanished
Mr. Maverick Narkom, Superintendent at Scotland Yard, flung aside the paper he was reading and wheeled round in his revolving desk-chair, all alert on the instant, like a terrier that scents a rat.
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