The Count regarded Nilo curiously—he was merely recalling the Prince.
"Your Majesty is most gracious. I accept the condition."
The captain of the guard, coming to the tunnel under the grand stand, was addressed by the sentinel there.
"See—here are a dress, a pair of shoes, and a veil. I found them by the gate there."
"How came they there?"
"A woman asked me to let her stand by the gate, and see the heretic when they brought him out, and I gave her permission. She wore these things."
"The Princess Irene!" exclaimed the officer. "Very well. Send them to me, and I will have her pleasure taken concerning them."
The Cynegion speedily returned to its customary state. But the expiation remained in the public mind a date to which all manner of events in city life was referred; none of them, however, of such consequence as the loss to the Emperor of the allegiance of the St. James'. Thenceforth the Brotherhoods were united against him.