88 PRINCE PRIGIO.

way to Lady Molinda,” in less than a week I
trust we. shall be taking our vows at the same
altar, and that the close of the ceremony which
finds us cousins will leave us brother and
sister.”

Poor Molinda merely stared; for she could
not imagine what he meant. In a moment he
was gone; and having taken, by the king’s
permission, the flying carpet, he was back at
the ambassador’s house in Gluckstein.