" So I am serving because I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him from actions which would torment him afterwards.

" "Well, there you see!" "Yes, but it is not as you imagine," Prince Andrew continued.

" I did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father--that again is for myself.

" Prince Andrew grew more and more animated.