TO THE EMPEROR
XVIII
TO THE EMPEROR
But the little paradise she had made for him there was one day invaded by two soldiers with some mysterious order, the command of which was that he must rejoin his regiment at once, though there was now no war.
"It is 'on to the emperor,'" laughed Arisuga, "and I must go. I had forgotten—thank you! Forgotten the emperor! The death!"
"Is it far to the emperor?" asked his little wife.
"Yes," sighed and laughed Arisuga, rubbing her cheek against his—you know they were of precisely the same height.
"And there is danger?"
"Oh, yes," said her husband, indifferently.