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It was not yet midday when Paul Deulin called at the Bukaty Palace.
"Is the prince in? " he asked. "Is he busy? " he added, when the servant had stood back with a gesture inviting him to enter. But the man only shrugged his shoulders with a smile. The prince, it appeared, was never busy. Deulin found him, in fact, in an armchair in his study, reading a German newspaper.