TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.

This book is part of the author’s “Balkan Series.” The full series, in order, being:

An Uncrowned King
A Crowned Queen
The Kings of the East
The Prince of the Captivity

Alterations to the text:

Punctuation corrections—mostly quotation mark pairing.

Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. warships/war-ships, Grand-Duke/Grand Duke, etc.) have been left as is.

[Title Page]

Add brief note indicating this novel’s position in the series. See above.

[Chapter XII]

“Congrats. and all that sort of thing, old man” change period to a comma.

[Chapter XVIII]

Change “which passed though the station this morning” to through.

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