Chapter II: Prologue: 1

I. THE GARDEN OF EDEN 15

II. THE SPY 30

III. THE PRINCESS HERMENGARDE’S DISCLOSURE 44

IV. A DOUBLE TRAITOR 58

V. JOHANN’S MISSION 73

VI. KING AND REGICIDE 86

VII. HERMENGARDE’S NEXT MOVE 98

VIII. AN ANARCHIST KING 114

IX. DOROTHEA’S CHOICE 134

X. THE CARES OF A CHANCELLOR 150

XI. HERMENGARDE DROPS A HINT 165

XII. HARUN AL RASHID 177

XIII. THE STATE PRISON 191

XIV. HERR MORITZ’S PLAN 204

XV. NO. 79 218

XVI. THE FIRST WARNING 230

XVII. THE COMING OF THE KAISER 244

XVIII. THE STATE BALL 256

XIX. A DECLARATION OF WAR 270

XX. THE SECOND WARNING 284

XXI. THE BLOW FALLS 296

XXII. A ROYAL MADMAN 307

XXIII. HERMENGARDE’S TRIUMPH 317

EPILOGUE 328

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