"Do you remember the fourteenth paragraph?"
"The fourteenth paragraph? Thank God we have nothing to do with that."
"Why 'thank God'?"
"Because the fourteenth paragraph has to do with state's prison offences; it declares null and void any marriage, if either of the contracting parties has committed such an offence."
The mystery was clear to Blanka now.
CHAPTER XI.
THE DECISION.
Gabriel Zimandy came to the princess one day with a very downcast mien.