The two girls looked at each other in amazement. They were dumbfounded, but a great relief was glowing in their eyes.
"Ellos," inquired the princess, considerably less agitated, "does any one else know of this?"
"No, your highness, there was no one on guard but Max, Baldos, and myself."
"Well, for the present, no one else must know of his flight. Do you understand? Not a word to any one. I, myself, will explain when the proper time comes. You and Max have been very careless, but I suppose you should not be punished. He has tricked us all. Send Max to me at once."
"Yes, your highness," said Ellos, and he went away with his head swimming. Max, the other guard, received like orders and then the two young women sank limply upon a divan.
"Oh, how clever you are, Yetive," came from the American girl. "But what next?"
"We may expect to hear something disagreeable from Count Marlanx, my dear," murmured the perplexed, but confident princess, "but I think we have the game in our own hands, as you would say in America."