An Imperial Marriage

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IMPERIAL MARRIAGE
ARTHUR W. MARCHMONT
AUTHOR OF BY RIGHT OF SWORD, WHEN I WAS CZAR, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO 1909
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
THE IMPERIAL MARRIAGE
When the Kaiser planned the marriage between his kinswoman, the Princess von Altenvelt, and his handsome favourite, the Prince von Graven--the Imperial Marriage, as the Court gossips styled it--there did not appear to be even the remotest possibility that it could ever be any concern of mine.
The news was almost the last I sent through to my paper, the London Newsletter , for I heard of it just before I resigned my position as Berlin Special Correspondent, on succeeding to my uncle's fortune. I had remained on in the capital, ostensibly to give a lift to my successor, my old Varsity chum, Gerald Bassett, but in reality for a reason which no one knew, except my sister, Bessie. And she only guessed it was on Althea's account.