CHAPTER TWOThe Palace was concentrating on the gala luncheon being given that day in honour of the Princess Marziale.
So no one heard the Prince and Texxo slip quietly down the backstairs.
Texxo had already been to the stables and ordered two of the best horses to be saddled. He told the grooms that they were for an extra special journey that had to be undertaken as soon as luncheon was finished.
The grooms, if they thought at all, assumed it was something to do with the Princess Marziale – doubtless an announcement of the marriage between her and the Prince.
Taking the horses from them, Texxo tied them up in a quiet part of the garden where no one was likely to go until the festivities were over.
Then he went back to find the Prince had already dressed in his ordinary clothes and was
