"And so the count has escaped, eh?"
It was Czar Nicholas who spoke as he gazed at Jack and Lord Hastings.
"Yes, your Majesty," replied the lad, and for a second time, at the Czar's request, he went over the details of the struggle with the count.
"Well," said the Czar when the lad had concluded, "there is no telling in what part of the cit