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The Prisoner of Zenda

By ANTHONY HOPE Condensation by PROF. WILLIAM FENWICK HARRIS RURITANIA was not England, or the quarrel between Duke Michael and Rudolf Rassendyll could not have gone on, with the remarkable incidents which marked it, without more public notice being directed to it. It is perhaps as strange a thing as has ever been in the history of a country that the king's brother and the king's personator, in a time of profound peace, near a placid, undisturbed country town, under semblance of amity, should wage a desperate war for the person and life of the king.