Part II
DELIVERANCE
This silent, self contained man had him an air of strange listlessness and disenchantment that made him in every way a contrast to the tanned, sunburnt young fellows who stood about him, all on fremet, he passed his hand over his forehead. It was an aristocratic, well kept hand, with slender, bloodness fingers. The whole appearence of this officer-which even a uniform could not disguise was that of a person of exceptional distinction, and indeed he was a person of very great distincion, being no other than Prince Louis von Hockstein Falckenbourg Gerau, the head of what was once a family of reigning princes.
Early leftan orphan, the prince found himself when he came of age master of ana almost unlimited fortune. From his mother, a musician of exquisite sensability he had inherited an artstic temperament and keen sense of the beautiful, while from this father, a haughty and some what eccentric noble, he had received a disposition of such violence and independence that it broked no control from outside and recognized no law but its own will.
It will take no great effort of the imagination to see how the world had treatedthe young prince. The court distinguished him with special attentions, the ladies petted him, the men sought him. In this hot house atosphere of high life he came quickly to maturity, and, like a most children brought up among older persons without companions of their own age, he was of a thoughtful, even suspicious, temperament.
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