"Well, Captain Ellerey, are you ready to go?"
"How can I thank you, my Lord?"
"By going," the Ambassador answered, with a smile. "Sight of the Princess is evidently good medicine for you. You have both given me many anxious hours."
"You must forgive us," said Maritza.
"Princess, I am an old man; I envy my countryman his youth. But for all that, I shall find my work in Sturatzberg easier when I know you two rebels are safely over the frontier."
Dr. Goldberg came in, and with him Captain Ward.
"I owe you much," said Ellerey, grasping the latter's hand. "Thank you."
"It is but repaying the debt I incurred on the night of the duel,
Captain Ellerey."
"The carriage is waiting," said Lord Cloverton. "It is in the inner courtyard. We must be silent, for the escort, which waits without, has no knowledge that I am accompanied. Now, Doctor, wrap up your patient, and help him out. Here is a cloak for you, Princess. You travel with light luggage, but that, I am afraid, cannot be helped."
"And Stefan?" asked Ellerey.