The Price of Power
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Le Queux William. The Price of Power
Chapter One. The Madcap
Chapter Two. An Audience of the Emperor
Chapter Three. Contains Certain Confidences
Chapter Four. Concerns Madame de Rosen
Chapter Five. The Man in Pince-Nez
Chapter Six. Relates a Sensation
Chapter Seven. Tells Tragic Truths
Chapter Eight. Describes a Mysterious Incident
Chapter Nine. The Little Grand Duchess
Chapter Ten. Reveals Two Facts
Chapter Eleven. His Excellency General Markoff
Chapter Twelve. Watchers in the Night
Chapter Thirteen. The Catspaw
Chapter Fourteen. Such is the Law
Chapter Fifteen. A Statement by the Informer
Chapter Sixteen. Incognita!
Chapter Seventeen. Her Highness is Outspoken
Chapter Eighteen. Shows Hartwig’s Anxiety
Chapter Nineteen. Orders in Cipher
Chapter Twenty. The Land of No Return
Chapter Twenty One. Hot Haste across Asia
Chapter Twenty Two. In the Night
Chapter Twenty Three. Identification!
Chapter Twenty Four. The Journey’s End
Chapter Twenty Five. Luba Makes a Statement
Chapter Twenty Six. Not in the Newspapers
Chapter Twenty Seven. At Tzarskoie-Selo
Chapter Twenty Eight. The Emperor’s Favourite
Chapter Twenty Nine. Presents another Problem
Chapter Thirty. Reveals the Gulf
Chapter Thirty One. The Painful Truth
Chapter Thirty Two. At What Cost!
Chapter Thirty Three. Describes a Momentous Audience
Chapter Thirty Four. The Emperor’s Command
Chapter Thirty Five “From Our Own Correspondent.”
Chapter Thirty Six. Describes To-day
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“You understand, Trewinnard. There must be no scandal. What I have just revealed to you is in strictest confidence – an inviolable secret – a personal secret of my own.”
“I understand Your Majesty’s commands perfectly.”
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“I know that you are entirely loyal to me. I am Emperor, it is true, but I am, nevertheless, a man of my word, just as you are,” he replied, his intelligent face dark and grave. “Yes. I thought you would realise the seriousness of the present situation, and I know that you alone I can trust. I have not even told the Empress.”
“Why not?”
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