In less than an hour, they were back again, with such expressions of delight on their faces that I was well recompensed for any trouble I had taken. I had given them so much more than they had ever dreamed of, that they stood confused and stammering before me.
"Well, gentlemen, you see that, quick as you were with your petition, we have been still quicker in preparing our answer."
"God bless your Majesty. It is so much more than we dared hope for, that you find us dazed with your generosity."
"Then you are satisfied?"
"Satisfied! More than satisfied, and eternally grateful to your Majesty. Ah! all Rudarlians will rejoice when this becomes known, and every man and woman will be bound even more firmly in their devoted loyalty to you."
"God grant it; but you must realise, and make others understand, that such change takes time to carry out. Therefore try and curb impatience, believing that our best endeavours will always be for Rudarlia."
It took months of hard work by able-minded men to work out the details of our scheme, and as many more to perfect the machinery.
In the meantime, I set to work upon the army, and other matters that were of great importance.
In order to expedite matters, I immediately appointed those Ministers whom I should have the power to appoint under the new constitution.
Mr. Smith, or Prince Zeula, as I shall now call him, was Chancellor, and President of the Council.