Her Royal Highness

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William Le Queux. Her Royal Highness

Her Royal Highness

Table of Contents

"A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe"

Chapter One

The Nile Travellers

Chapter Two

Arouses Certain Suspicions

Chapter Three

In the Holy of Holies

Chapter Four

Contains a Bitter Truth

Chapter Five

A Surprise

Chapter Six

More Concerning the Stranger

Chapter Seven

The Night of the Golden Pig

Chapter Eight

The Great Ghelardi

Chapter Nine

At Downing Street

Chapter Ten

Some Curious Stories

Chapter Eleven

Strictly Incognita

Chapter Twelve

The King’s Confidences

Chapter Thirteen

His Majesty’s Secret

Chapter Fourteen

Is Mainly Problematical

Chapter Fifteen

Behind the Throne

Chapter Sixteen

Her Royal Highness

Chapter Seventeen

The Cipher Dispatch

Chapter Eighteen

Told in the Café Métropole

Chapter Nineteen

At the Court Ball

Chapter Twenty

Reveals Hubert’s Secret

Chapter Twenty One

A Confidential Report

Chapter Twenty Two

“The Thrush.”

Chapter Twenty Three

Her Highness’s Warning

Chapter Twenty Four

Room Number 164

Chapter Twenty Five

Government Secrets

Chapter Twenty Six

Gathering Clouds

Chapter Twenty Seven

Reveals an Intrigue

Chapter Twenty Eight

The Eyewitness

Chapter Twenty Nine

Reveals the Bondage

Chapter Thirty

Mijoux Flobecq

Chapter Thirty One

The Bond Revealed

Chapter Thirty Two

Through the Night

Chapter Thirty Three

Spreading the Net

Chapter Thirty Four

The Truth is Told

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William Le Queux

A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe

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For a full twenty minutes or so he pondered, uncertain what reply to send. In any case, even if he left for London on the following morning, he could not arrive at Charing Cross for fully ten days.

At last he took up his cane and hat, and descending in the lift, crossed the great hotel garden, making his way down the short hill towards the town. It was then nearly eleven o’clock, and all was silent and deserted except for the armed Arab watchman in his hooded cloak. On his right as he walked lay a small public garden, a prettily laid out space rising on the huge boulders which form the gorge of the Nile—a place filled by high feathery palms, flaming poinsettias, and a wealth of tropical flowers.

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