Beverly of Graustark guide

Summary

Characters

• GrenfallAlso LorryHelperFrom Chapter 1
• YetiveHelperFrom Chapter 1
• CasparAlso HalfontGatekeeperFrom Chapter 1
• DantanAlso Baldos, PaulLoveFrom Chapter 1
• GabrielVillainFrom Chapter 1
• BeverlyAlso Calhoun, BevLeadFrom Chapter 2
• GeorgeAlso CalhounOtherFrom Chapter 2
• FannyHelperFrom Chapter 3
• Duke of MizroxSuitorFrom Chapter 3
• FranzHelperFrom Chapter 6
• RavoneHelperFrom Chapter 6
• QuinnoxHelperFrom Chapter 7
• DanglossGatekeeperFrom Chapter 7
• CandaceHelperFrom Chapter 7
• MarlanxAlso Iron CountVillainFrom Chapter 10
• HarryAlso AnguishHelperFrom Chapter 10
• DagmarHelperFrom Chapter 10
• HaddanHelperFrom Chapter 12
• EllosHelperFrom Chapter 25

Chapter by chapter

Storylines

• Graustark bears an indemnity obligation to Axphain following military defeat and wartime devastation.

• Graustark and Axphain enter a treaty peace after their war.

  • Axphain threatens to end friendly relations unless Graustark vigorously pursues Gabriel, placing their existing peace under renewed strain.

• Yetive and Grenfall's acquaintance develops into love and marriage, overcoming ancestral prejudices.

  • The retrospective account confirms that Grenfall's willingness to surrender for Yetive culminated in their marriage.

• Grenfall wins the Graustarkians' consent to his marriage to Yetive and their enduring esteem.

• Gabriel's supporters overthrow Dantan, and Gabriel returns from imprisonment to reclaim Dawsbergen's throne with the army's allegiance; Dantan remains threatened by Gabriel's bounty.

  • The chapter supplies further accounts of Gabriel's escape, Dantan's expulsion and loss of army allegiance, and Dantan's continuing danger.
  • Gabriel extends his reprisals to Dantan's friends, while Grenfall's strategy anticipates growing opposition to Gabriel.
  • Gabriel is recaptured and imprisoned, while Ravone is revealed as the fugitive Prince Dantan and welcomed at the castle; restoration to the throne is not yet established.
  • Gabriel's capture and reported escape disrupt his position, while nobles report popular support for restoring the old reign; Dantan's restoration is not yet established.
  • Gabriel's capture undermines his supporters, and both leaders and people turn toward Dantan's restoration; Dantan plans to resume the throne, but has not yet done so.
  • Dantan regains his countrymen's allegiance and his throne, ending Gabriel's displacement of him.

• The restored Gabriel openly antagonizes Yetive.

  • Gabriel's defiance of Graustark's surrender demand turns the antagonism into an immediate political and military crisis requiring Yetive's early return.

• Gabriel publicly offers a bounty to bring about Dantan's death.

  • Gabriel's imprisonment prevents him from personally directing his campaign against Dantan, although the bounty is not explicitly revoked.
  • Gabriel pursues the false prospect of capturing and killing Dantan, and his captors discover his intention to kill his siblings.

• George and Betty Haswell fall in love and marry.

• Beverly and Yetive become loyal friends whose attachment deepens through the impending separation and Yetive's private admissions of fear.

  • Beverly's concern about finding Yetive becomes intense fear for her friend's safety.
  • Yetive's determined effort to find Beverly culminates in an affectionate reunion; she then supports Beverly's promise and continued impersonation.
  • Beverly puts aside her immediate concern for Baldos to comfort Yetive, and their shared amusement sustains their intimacy.
  • Yetive is distressed by Beverly's proposed departure and relieved that no definite date has been fixed.
  • Beverly confides both the blackmail and her love for Baldos; Yetive corroborates her account, promises protection and acts on her behalf.

• The Calhoun family's hospitality strengthens Yetive's affection for Americans.

• Yetive and Grenfall abandon their original itinerary and prepare to return to Graustark two months early, taking an evening train to New York and sailing the following day.

  • Yetive has returned to Edelweiss from America, establishing progress on the early return without confirming every part of the couple's itinerary.

• Beverly wants to visit Yetive in Graustark despite the danger that disrupts their original summer arrangements.

  • Beverly persists in trying to reach Graustark, but desertion, the loss of route guidance, nearby gunfire, and the coachman's intended abandonment obstruct her visit.
  • Beverly reaches Yetive in Graustark and reunites with her.

• Graustark demands Gabriel's surrender as a condemned murderer, but he defies the demand; Dawsbergen's superior military strength threatens Graustark.

  • Graustark formally demands Gabriel's surrender; Dawsbergen requests time to consider it, while Axphain adds threats against Graustark. Beverly is assured that war has not yet begun.
  • Gabriel again refuses surrender; Graustark responds with a sixty-day ultimatum backed by threatened war and an asserted expectation of at least moral support from Axphain.
  • Reports of strengthened Dawsbergen passes and supplies moving north prompt emergency deliberations, increasing the military threat to Graustark.
  • Reports of Gabriel near the frontier trigger military preparations and expectations of imminent war.
  • Evidence of Dawsbergen's raids weakens hope of averting war through popular defection, while Graustark's leaders and soldiers prepare for action.
  • Gabriel is confirmed back in Graustark's dungeon, satisfying the demand for his custody and removing the immediate cause of the threatened war.

• Beverly arranges an April journey to St. Petersburg with parental permission and Josephine as her required companion, intending also to reach Edelweiss the next month.

  • Beverly has reached Balak near Graustark and travels onward toward Ganlook with an arranged escort and guides, though those arrangements subsequently collapse.
  • Beverly has left St. Petersburg and continued by stage because railway traffic is interrupted.

• Beverly's father has authorized St. Petersburg without knowing her intended Graustark visit; Beverly tells Yetive and Grenfall and intends to keep her father uninformed.

• Grenfall opposes Beverly's visiting Edelweiss during fighting, while Beverly resents his resistance and insists on retaining her choice.

• Mizrox's minority opposes Volga's policy against Graustark within Axphain.

  • Volga forces Mizrox into temporary exile; his opposition now brings him to Graustark seeking protection.
  • Mizrox communicates the changed political situation to Volga, who temporarily abandons her designs on Graustark.

• Beverly conceals her terror from the men through an appearance of enthusiasm and requires Fanny to suppress outward panic.

  • Despite renewed terror and an impulse to retreat, Beverly recovers some courage and resolves to conceal cowardice before the possible brigands.
  • Beverly's fear breaks through her composure during the thunderstorm and lion attack, but she overcomes paralysis to help Baldos.

• Beverly's journey toward Graustark is endangered by her mistaken identification as Yetive, reports of Axphainian interception, and gunfire in the pass.

  • Beverly discovers that the mountain men also mistake her for Yetive and know the princess's itinerary; she deliberately sustains their mistake.
  • Scouts, spies and a planned attack threaten the supposed princess, while the expected route has drawn her escort elsewhere.
  • Reports of unusually timed Axphainian maneuvers near the border renew the military threat, and Graustark strengthens its northern defenses.

• The coachman is an escaped convict using his occupation as a disguise while seeking refuge.

• Beverly loses her guides and military protection in an unfamiliar mountain pass; she insists on continuing while the officer orders a retreat and then abandons her.

  • The driver deliberately carries Beverly farther into the mountains and deserts both women. Beverly recognizes their helpless isolation, and the man she finds is a stranger rather than a remaining escort.
  • The loss of her escort still distresses Beverly, but she accepts a replacement driver and resumes the journey without restored military protection.

• The coachman intends to escape the officer, abandon Beverly and Fanny with the coach, and flee into the hills.

  • The coachman stops the coach, leaves his seat, and flees among the rocks, carrying out his intended abandonment of Beverly and Fanny.

• Beverly seeks safe onward passage for herself and Fanny, offering valuables to the strangers and asking that Fanny be spared.

  • Beverly secures the men's commitment to help and departs with Fanny toward promised lodging, though they have not yet reached safety.
  • Beverly and Fanny reach the camp and receive shelter, but the storm destroys Beverly's chamber. Dantan rescues her from immediate danger; secure shelter and onward passage remain unsettled.
  • Shelter and Baldos's protection preserve Beverly's safety; the party plans onward travel toward Ganlook, with coach transport proposed for its injured protector.
  • The party resumes its journey toward Ganlook but must spend another night outside, with hunger and dread wearing Beverly down.
  • Beverly and Fanny reach Ganlook and gain entry, although the travelers are placed under guard.
  • Beverly and Fanny receive an escort and leave for the countess's home, completing their passage to safety.

• Beverly's fearful encounter with Dantan and his companions begins to develop into tentative trust through his assurances of harmless intentions and Fanny's safety.

  • Dantan supplies an account of himself and promises loyal assistance; Beverly entrusts herself to him despite renewed fear and continuing uncertainty.
  • Dantan's hospitality elicits Beverly's declared implicit trust, admiration and romantic enchantment. His offer of protection becomes action when he rescues her during the storm.
  • Beverly chooses his company, witnesses his protection at personal cost, and responds with concern, guilt, and sustained attention to his comfort and opinion.
  • Beverly acknowledges Baldos's bravery and receives his practical protection, although his fugitive status and admission of killing briefly revive her fear before it subsides.
  • Baldos accepts Beverly's personal pledge of protection, but her implausible conduct as a ruler subsequently gives him grounds for suspicion.
  • Beverly actively protects Baldos, promises to visit him, and presses Yetive to honor the safety she guaranteed him.
  • Baldos sends thanks and an inquiry after Beverly's health, entrusts Franz with reassuring his companions of his safety, and receives Beverly's expression of regret at their missed visit.

• Beverly knowingly allows the mountain men to believe she is Princess Yetive and intends to brief Fanny on the impersonation.

  • Fanny learns the impersonation and agrees to sustain it. Dantan explains away Beverly's failure to understand Graustark's language and professes allegiance to the princess, while Beverly enjoys her assumed rank.
  • Baldos continues to observe her supposed royal rank, while his reference to her assumed American husband exposes another constraint of her impersonation.
  • Beverly recognizes that Baldos still takes her for Yetive and deliberately maintains the impersonation because she considers it safer.
  • Beverly recognizes the danger of her false authority and maintains the impersonation at the outpost. The gate officer detects it, and she admits the truth privately to Dangloss while keeping Baldos and Fanny outside.
  • Beverly seeks to preserve Baldos's mistaken belief, and Yetive authorizes her to continue playing the princess.
  • Franz and Baldos still treat Beverly as the princess, and Yetive knowingly supports Franz's account before Gartz, sustaining the mistaken identity.
  • Beverly receives assurance that Baldos still believes she is the princess, but he privately doubts that identity and chooses to play along.
  • The household actively sustains Beverly's impersonation. Franz's note exposes it to Dantan, whose subsequent doubts end when he sees the real princess; he continues concealing his discovery.
  • Beverly deliberately prolongs the masquerade and asks Quinnox to preserve it by avoiding her real name.
  • Beverly continues acting as the princess and attempts to conceal her inability to read Graustark's language, but Baldos confronts her with Ravone's identification of her true identity.
  • Beverly openly confesses her identity to Baldos and discovers that he already knew it, ending her unilateral deception of him.

• Dantan, presenting himself as Baldos, commits himself and his companions to Beverly's service and undertakes to drive her and Fanny to nearby lodging.

  • Dantan delivers Beverly and Fanny to the promised lodging, revealed as an outdoor refuge, and provides a private chamber and continued attendance. His service extends to rescuing Beverly when the shelter fails.
  • Baldos provides renewed shelter, protects Beverly from the lion, and specifies the next stage of their journey, including another night with the hunters.
  • Baldos arranges and accompanies the onward journey, but explicitly limits his service to Ganlook's walls.
  • The party reaches roadside lodging and then Ganlook; Baldos's other followers leave, while Franz completes the drive.

• Acting as Graustark's ruler, Beverly promises rewards and pardon in exchange for the men's assistance in reaching safety.

  • Beverly realizes that her assumed identity cannot guarantee protection. Her proposal to summon the followers and pardon them meets Baldos's fierce refusal.
  • Yetive backs Beverly's assumed authority with a signed and witnessed command protecting Baldos and his companions, providing care and comforts, and permitting his eventual free departure.
  • Continuing to act as ruler, Beverly obtains Baldos's agreement to serve by promising rewards and favorable conditions, including inducements she cannot fulfill.

• Beverly secretly arms herself against another emergency, with Fanny helping conceal the retrieval of her revolver.

  • Beverly uses the concealed revolver during the lion attack, accidentally wounds Baldos, and drops the weapon.

• Dantan intends for the wanderers to leave their woodland camp the following day.

  • Baldos sets an early departure and a twenty-mile objective toward Ganlook; his inability to walk creates an obstacle that Beverly proposes overcoming with the coach.
  • The intended departure from the woodland camp takes place.

• A thunderstorm destroys Beverly's improvised chamber and endangers her; Dantan frees her from the stifling robes and carries her toward an unknown destination.

  • Beverly regains her footing, recognizes her companions, receives sheltered sleeping quarters deeper in the cavern, and learns the storm has subsided.

• Dantan wears an eye patch although the uncovered eye appears sound; Beverly discovers the discrepancy without learning its purpose.

  • Beverly challenges the misplaced patch and learns that it disguises Baldos from enemies, without learning the identity it conceals.
  • Baldos refuses to remove the patch and explains that it disguises him from an enemy; the identity he conceals remains undisclosed.
  • Dantan reports discarding the patch, although its destruction and the full explanation of its use remain unconfirmed.

• Baldos's wounds prevent him from walking for several days, complicating the party's onward journey.

  • Baldos travels inside the coach and minimizes his injuries, but his later fever raises concern about serious complications.
  • Baldos still requires wound and fever treatment; his condition forces a choice between being left behind and accepting medical help in Ganlook.
  • Baldos manages to walk despite his wounds and receives skilled hospital treatment; recovery remains incomplete.
  • Baldos recovers sufficient strength to leave the hospital and travel toward Edelweiss.

• Beverly seeks to care for Baldos after accidentally shooting him, feeling guilty and fearing his opinion of her.

  • Beverly prioritizes Baldos's welfare, praises his bravery and seeks medical treatment; his fever prompts her to order a faster journey to a physician.
  • Beverly's concern develops into a pledge to risk her life and honor to secure Baldos's safety and treatment.
  • Beverly pursues immediate treatment, promises a visit, and seeks binding protection to repair the consequences of shooting him and inducing him to enter Ganlook.
  • Beverly secures Dangloss's renewed promise of care, sends Baldos an apology for leaving without visiting, and intends to bring him to Edelweiss when he can travel.
  • Beverly follows her offer of better treatment with a personal journey to collect Baldos and secures his agreement to accompany her.
  • Beverly fears that securing Dantan's appointment has exposed him to harm, investigates his humiliation, and wins relief from further reprimand.

• Beverly resolves that the injured Baldos will ride inside the coach so he can travel with the party.

  • Baldos takes the rear seat inside the coach and travels with the party.

• Baldos conceals his identity from enemies with an eye patch and refuses questions about his past; Beverly suspects that he and his polished companions are more than ordinary hunters.

  • His followers' deference establishes his authority, while his willingness to be left behind and refusal to summon them preserve their separation from the city's authorities.
  • Dangloss challenges Baldos's assumed identity, but Baldos withholds his history; Beverly can give Yetive only his limited account.
  • Beverly again suspects Baldos is no ordinary man, while his concealed connection with Franz continues through a clandestine delivery.
  • Dantan's identity remains concealed, while Dangloss renews investigative pressure through continuous surveillance.
  • The investigation produces competing princely identities without establishing either. Beverly's promise, upheld by Yetive, protects Baldos from direct questioning.
  • Ravone's identification as Prince Dantan excludes that identity for Baldos, whom Beverly now understands as the sovereign's humble friend; Baldos's full past remains unexplained.
  • The account explains Baldos's protective service and covert movements, and he receives royal recognition; these events do not explicitly establish a public disclosure of his identity.
  • Baldos is publicly revealed as Dantan, and Beverly learns that Yetive and the court already knew.

• Beverly wants Baldos admitted to Edelweiss and placed under medical care, but he refuses; his subsequent fever makes obtaining a physician urgent.

  • Beverly and the followers overcome Baldos's refusal, and he enters Ganlook under her protection. Medical treatment is not yet secured, and detention complicates that aim.
  • The immediate need for medical care is met in Ganlook, where Baldos receives skilled treatment and a royal guarantee of care through recovery.

• Beverly considers asking Yetive to obtain a pardon for Baldos.

  • Beverly obtains Yetive's signed and witnessed protection order, securing the practical safety and eventual freedom she sought through a pardon.

• Beverly believes Yetive is approaching along an Axphainian-guarded route and fears that the planned attack on Ganlook will endanger her.

  • Beverly learns that Yetive reached Ganlook safely and subsequently reunites with her.

• Baldos plans to separate from Beverly before Ganlook and send her onward with Franz, then yields to entering the city while his other followers depart.

  • Baldos's revised decision to enter Ganlook is carried out; his companions return to the hills except Franz.

• Beverly seeks Dangloss's help by explaining her true identity and the travelers' situation.

  • Dangloss hears Beverly's account, arranges her reunion with Yetive, and obtains hospital care for Baldos.

• Ganlook's officers detect Beverly's impersonation and hold her and Baldos under guard, bringing her promised protection into immediate jeopardy.

  • Beverly is released to join Yetive. Although Baldos is initially guarded, the subsequent witnessed royal command forbids treating him as a prisoner and guarantees free departure after recovery.

• Dangloss already knows Beverly's true name and American origin, but the source and extent of his knowledge remain unexplained to her.

• Dangloss investigates Baldos's identity and keeps him under hospital guard, while Baldos refuses personal disclosure and claims the protection Beverly promised.

  • Dangloss authorizes Baldos's delivery to Beverly, ending his hospital detention; his identity remains undisclosed.

• A picked detail searches the lower pass for Baldos's companions.

  • Beverly promises to have the soldiers leave Baldos's companions undisturbed, opposing the continuing search; execution of that promise is not yet shown.

• Dangloss reacts uneasily to the royal protection order, but the reason for his reaction remains undisclosed.

• Beverly intends to have Baldos brought to Edelweiss once he is medically fit to travel.

  • Despite Baldos's initial refusal and demand for freedom, Beverly obtains his voluntary agreement and departs with him toward Edelweiss; arrival is not yet shown.
  • Beverly reaches the castle and Dantan is lodged in the guards' barracks, completing his transfer to Edelweiss.

• Graustark gives Gabriel sixty days to surrender before declaring war and attempting his capture, allowing time for opposition to his rule to grow.

• Harry and Dagmar intend to leave Paris for Edelweiss this week, subject to their baby's needs.

  • Harry and Dagmar arrive at the royal castle with their baby.

• Beverly secures royal approval and Marlanx's assistance to recruit Baldos into the Castle Guard; Baldos agrees to six months of service with the option of release afterward.

  • Dantan formally enlists for six months, receives his equipment and appointment as Beverly's special guard, and pledges wholehearted service.

• Beverly and Baldos develop a growing personal attachment: she is unsettled by her anticipation of their reunion, while he delights in her return and regrets hurting her feelings.

  • Beverly's disappointment in his reserve gives way to reassurance at his pledge. Dantan's concealed admiration gains renewed hope when he realizes she is unmarried, and his appointment creates continuing personal proximity.
  • Beverly defends Baldos and protects his confidence; her support sustains him, while challenges to her preferred explanation of his identity distress her.
  • Beverly longs for informal companionship with Dantan; he intervenes when she fears Marlanx and rejoices in her gratitude.
  • Beverly's thoughts repeatedly return to Baldos; Yetive recognizes her preoccupation, and Beverly feels disappointed when their discussion of him ends.
  • Beverly recognizes Baldos's emotional importance to her and seeks signs of reciprocal dependence; discovering his clandestine correspondence then damages her trust and alarms him through her evident distress.
  • Their attachment becomes openly romantic: Beverly recognizes her susceptibility, reaffirms her trust, and receives his passionate kiss on her hand, although she checks his familiarity by invoking his subordinate position.
  • Their mutual disclosure deepens their attachment: Beverly welcomes his knowledge that she is unmarried, insists he remain, and learns that he calls her his inspiration; Baldos recognizes her concern and promises to deserve her kindness.
  • Baldos repeatedly offers his life for Beverly, while her fear for him and intervention between the swords reveal the strength of her attachment.
  • The feather produces visible romantic excitement, while the possibility of Baldos's attachment to Iolanda causes consuming distress.
  • Beverly's compassion and reassurance end Baldos's distress over apparent rejection; his declaration of love, her affectionate touch, and her gift of a kissed rose deepen their intimacy.
  • Beverly explicitly confesses her love, although she intends to defer a proposal; Baldos takes pride in the handwriting on the summons.
  • Their attachment deepens through mutual hurt and withheld reassurance. Baldos interprets Beverly's insistence on departure as rejection, while his apparent indifference wounds her and she commits to seeing him again.
  • His concern for Beverly and her impulse to keep him reveal their attachment, while mutual misinterpretation and her suspicion of a rival intensify their estrangement.
  • Beverly acknowledges her love, Dantan ensures her safe return, and their separation is tempered by his promise to return.
  • Beverly resolves to treat Baldos more kindly if he returns, then discovers him still present and on duty.
  • Their attachment becomes explicitly mutual love and a promise of marriage.
  • Beverly relinquishes her hope that Baldos is Prince Dantan and finds happiness in loving him for himself.
  • Baldos publicly kisses the faded rose he has kept, and Beverly recognizes it as a token of their attachment.
  • Separation exposes Beverly's distress, and their reunion brings reciprocal declarations of love, her acceptance of his apparent poverty, and his promise of lifelong devotion.
  • His sustained courtship and her love for him as a supposed common soldier are acknowledged; she accepts his explanation, and they reaffirm their mutual commitment.

• Beverly offers to admit and provide for Baldos's companions and promises to have Graustark's soldiers leave them undisturbed.

  • Baldos invokes Beverly's promise of protection when his companions face questioning; their papers are accepted and they depart unimpeded, although they do not enter her proposed service.
  • Ravone is welcomed as a guest, seeks relief for his followers, and messengers are sent to fetch them.

• Franz has urgent, undisclosed news for Baldos and secretly passes him a paper while disguised as a beggar.

  • Dantan reads Franz's note: Beverly is an American guest rather than the princess, and Franz had urged him to question her before entering Edelweiss.

• Dantan conceals his discovery of Beverly's true identity and chooses to participate in her deception; Haddan's answers briefly unsettle his certainty, but discovering the real princess confirms it.

  • Baldos encounters the real princess and her companions in their concealed observation, yet continues participating in Beverly's impersonation and agrees to secrecy.
  • Baldos continues referring to Beverly as the princess, but his conduct gives Yetive confidence that he knows who the real princess is.
  • Beverly's inability to read the note confirms Ravone's identification for Baldos. He explicitly tells her that Ravone identifies her as the American girl, exposing the challenge to her impersonation.
  • After briefly feigning surprise and feeling remorse, Baldos reveals that he has long known Beverly's identity.

• Dangloss continues investigating Dantan's concealed identity, with Haddan ordered to shadow him day and night.

  • Dangloss pursues external evidence despite instructions against questioning Baldos. A frontier report weakens the Dantan hypothesis, while an official description suggests Christobal; the identity remains unresolved.
  • Dangloss receives a report of Dantan's close examination of military defenses and obtains approval for precautionary restrictions.
  • Haddan's continued surveillance produces no compromising information about Baldos.
  • Close surveillance continues, and Mizrox inspects Baldos without settling his identity.
  • Baldos reports persistent surveillance by two men in guard uniforms, attributing it to Marlanx; this adds a suspected source of surveillance without establishing that these men act for Dangloss.
  • Dantan's disclosure to Yetive and the court settles the identity the investigation sought.

• Beverly plans a fortress inspection with Dantan accompanying her as her special guard.

  • Beverly completes the fortress visit with Dantan serving as an escort.

• Beverly undertakes to keep private the incident in which Baldos discovers Yetive and her companions peeping.

• Marlanx resents Baldos's failure to acknowledge his authority and threatens to discipline him; Baldos resents his treatment, while Beverly intervenes as Baldos's sponsor.

  • Marlanx humiliates Dantan and threatens further punishment after his intervention. Beverly secures exemption from the reprimand, but Marlanx's hostility remains and he is recognized as capable of framing Dantan.
  • Marlanx escalates his hostility through public accusations, insulting interrogation and demands for confinement; Baldos's rebuttal exposes Marlanx's responsibility for his fortress access.
  • Beverly's advocacy fails to reconcile Marlanx to Baldos; he postpones retaliation until a favorable opportunity.
  • Baldos refuses Marlanx's order, threatens him and fights him; Beverly stops the duel, and Marlanx publicly undertakes to overlook it while retaining its usefulness as leverage.
  • Marlanx imposes degrading duties on Baldos and falsely represents Beverly as having dismissed him.
  • Marlanx withdraws the charges, Baldos is freed, and the rulers publicly commend him and apologize.

• Beverly and the royal circle seek to discover Baldos's past and identity, considering both Dantan and Christobal without reaching a conclusion.

  • Beverly tests Dantan's knowledge and learns of his military experience and precise assessment of fortress weaknesses, adding evidence about his past without establishing his identity.
  • The council questions Baldos about his service and declared name without establishing his identity; Yetive gains confidence about his knowledge of hers and plans a private conversation.
  • Further reports establish Baldos's exceptional military knowledge and ability, but surveillance supplies no disclosure of his identity.
  • Beverly presses for his identity and accepts his denial of royal status, abandoning her hope that he is a prince without discovering who he actually is.
  • Frederic becomes another possible identity, but inspection is inconclusive; the account of Iolanda strengthens Beverly's belief that Baldos is Dantan.
  • The summary records that Beverly has learned Baldos's identity, but gives neither the disclosed identity nor evidence that the royal circle shares her knowledge.
  • Beverly accepts Baldos's word that he is an ordinary person, abandoning her supposition that he might be a prince without establishing his identity.
  • Dagmar identifies Baldos as Christobal and Beverly entertains that possibility, invoking the reported death of the game-warden's daughter. No identity is confirmed, and Yetive ends the inquiry.
  • Reports of another man claiming to be Dantan and of Frederic's death leave Baldos's identity unresolved; Beverly loses her remaining hope that he is a prince.
  • The revelation that Ravone is Prince Dantan eliminates one proposed identity for Baldos without establishing his full identity.
  • Yetive and Grenfall receive the prince's full account of Baldos, although the events do not disclose its contents or establish that Beverly learns them.
  • Beverly learns that Baldos is Dantan and Ravone is Christobal, resolving the competing identifications.

• Grand Duke Michael seeks Christobal through an official description and reward.

• Christobal leaves home with retainers, intending to travel east and help Dantan regain his throne.

  • Christobal's concealed participation is revealed after Dantan's restoration, achieving the purpose of his journey.

• Christobal's wish to marry the game-warden's daughter conflicts with his father's intended wealthy match and estranges father and son; the daughter's reported murder ends the possibility of their marriage.

• Harry and Grenfall favor questioning Baldos directly, but Beverly invokes her promise against questioning and Yetive upholds it despite her curiosity.

• Marlanx pursues Beverly with gifts and unwanted physical intimacy; she rejects his advances and feels fear and revulsion.

  • Marlanx forcibly holds Beverly despite her resistance, then uses Baldos's threatened punishment to seek promises from her.
  • Marlanx approaches the troubled Beverly, attacks her trust in Baldos, and seeks forgiveness through professions of devotion.
  • Marlanx presses for the promised poker lesson despite Beverly's resistance, intensifying her hatred of him.
  • Marlanx escalates his unwanted pursuit into sexual blackmail, then coerced marriage, threatening Beverly's reputation and Baldos's life; she rejects him.
  • Beverly reveals that Marlanx watched the previous night's encounter and threatened her.
  • The cloaked attacker, whom Dantan suspects is Marlanx, attempts to seize Beverly and threatens her with a sword; she shoots him while resisting.
  • Marlanx demands Beverly's consent to become his and threatens exposure through offensive written charges; she responds with anger and resistance.

• Beverly seeks to protect Dantan from Marlanx's humiliating discipline and wins exemption from the threatened reprimand.

  • Fearing an unjust accusation and feeling isolated in her trust, Beverly resolves to remain steadfast in protecting Baldos.
  • Beverly recognizes the trap in ordering Baldos to assault Marlanx, withdraws that threat and stops the subsequent duel, but still fears Baldos faces execution.
  • Beverly seeks Yetive's help and intends to disclose the park conflict, but sets her appeal aside for Yetive's larger concerns.
  • Seeing Baldos exhausted by degrading assignments, Beverly commits to restoring his former duties; the restoration has not yet occurred.
  • Beverly's appeal to Quinnox initially fails, but her disclosure to Yetive leads to orders overriding Marlanx's authority over Baldos.
  • Beverly seeks to protect Baldos from the impending arrest through escape. He initially refuses because of the accusations this could expose her to, then agrees to depart.

• Beverly's public familiarity with Dantan conflicts with Dagmar's expectations of proper conduct toward a guard.

  • Beverly realizes how late their private encounter has continued and discovers Marlanx, Yetive, Caspar and Dangloss watching them, exposing their familiarity to scrutiny.

• Dantan's access to fortress defenses raises suspicion of betrayal; Beverly's trust in him is strained by his detailed military knowledge, while Marlanx is recognized as a potential source of false accusations.

  • Baldos demonstrates exact knowledge of the defenses, and Marlanx explicitly accuses him of spying and demands imprisonment. His candid rebuttal nevertheless strengthens the other council members' confidence.
  • Beverly's discovery of concealed communication with Ravone severely shakes her trust, without establishing that Baldos has betrayed Graustark.
  • The concealed exchange renews Beverly's suspicion and makes her feel complicit in possible treachery. She ultimately declares her belief in his innocence but still demands documentary proof.
  • Marlanx explicitly accuses Baldos of serving Gabriel and exchanging messages with enemy scouts, then treats the reported fires as confirmation; neither allegation is established as fact.
  • Marlanx uses the alarm to implicate Baldos and restrict him, although Beverly abandons her suspicion and the brigand explanation vindicates her confidence.
  • Reports that Gabriel knows Graustark's weaknesses and movements renew suspicion of espionage. Beverly defends Baldos and reassures him after he feared that she suspected him.
  • Marlanx formally accuses Baldos of spying for Dawsbergen, claims incriminating evidence and seeks his arrest; Yetive allows charges subject to a fair trial.
  • The suspicion of espionage becomes a scheduled arrest, while Marlanx and his agents prepare false evidence against Baldos's loyalty.
  • Marlanx interprets the departure and return as espionage; Baldos's admitted secret movements and refusal to explain them deepen suspicion and destroy Grenfall's implicit trust.
  • Ravone undertakes to explain Baldos's conduct, and Candace's account connects his movements to Gabriel's capture and her protection. Yetive commits to an honorable acquittal, but it has not yet occurred.
  • The account establishes a protective purpose for his knowledge of the passage; the charges are withdrawn and the rulers acknowledge his service.

• Dangloss obtains Yetive's approval to restrict Dantan's duties to the city and prevent access to the fortress and outside communication, while presuming his innocence.

• Beverly intends to have Dantan explain the fortress's weaknesses to the war department; he agrees to do so if commanded.

  • Baldos explains the fortress's vulnerabilities to the council and supplies an accurate drawn plan, fulfilling the intended military briefing.

• Beverly asks Dantan to conceal their private discussion of the fortress weaknesses unless pressed.

  • During the council examination, Baldos discloses that he discussed the fortress with Beverly, ending the discussion's privacy.

• Baldos's candid defense wins respect and confidence from the council members other than Marlanx.

  • Officials recognize Baldos's expertise, engineers act on his recommendations, and his reputation spreads through the castle and army.
  • Yetive explicitly assures Baldos of her friendship and of her and Grenfall's trust; he responds with lasting reverence.
  • Grenfall comes to believe Baldos guilty, although Baldos's courage under threat still wins the men's admiration.
  • Public acclaim, royal commendation, an apology and a promised reward strengthen his standing.

• Yetive and Grenfall seek Baldos's help strengthening the fortress, while Marlanx opposes employing him.

  • Baldos supplies immediate alterations and a longer-term modernization plan; engineers begin implementing his defenses and the river gate is closed.

• Yetive intends to speak privately with Baldos after becoming confident that he knows her true identity.

  • The private conversation occurs, and Baldos acknowledges having seen Yetive in the audience chamber.

• Marlanx pressures Baldos to fight Dawsbergen under threat of accusations of spying and cowardice; Baldos refuses to fight either Dawsbergen or Axphain while committing himself to the princess's personal defense.

• Marlanx waits for an opportunity to bring about Baldos's undoing while his present favor protects him.

  • Marlanx's attempt to provoke a punishable assault fails, but the duel gives him leverage, and he presses espionage accusations. Beverly's surrender of the note to Yetive deprives him of another opportunity.
  • Marlanx strategically postpones revenge while tightening surveillance, changing Baldos's duties, and attempting to undermine Beverly's trust.
  • Marlanx undermines Baldos through degrading assignments and a false dismissal claim; his scrutiny of the balcony creates a possible further opportunity, without establishing what he witnessed.
  • Marlanx acts against Baldos through threats, espionage accusations and attempted arrest. Yetive's countermand obstructs him, but he leaves intent on vengeance.
  • Marlanx's effort to destroy Baldos's standing progresses through attributed surveillance, preparation of false evidence, and an impending arrest.
  • Marlanx acts against Dantan through sworn charges, a false accusation against Beverly, surveillance and an armed interception.
  • Marlanx presses formal charges against Baldos and insists on punishment for Beverly's assistance even after accepting his own dismissal.
  • Marlanx presses for arrest and irons, and Baldos is formally made a prisoner.
  • Marlanx anticipates punishment and withdraws his charges as Baldos gains freedom and royal vindication.

• Beverly wishes to visit the monastery of St. Valentine and joins the mountain excursion.

• Beverly deliberately withdraws her attention to check Baldos's familiarity, but his apparent contentment frustrates her attempt.

  • After exposing her eagerness over the feather, Beverly again deliberately ignores Baldos despite wearing it.
  • Beverly abandons her withdrawal, seeks Baldos out, reassures him, and reciprocates his affection.

• Baldos's companions travel toward Serros after being advised to avoid Edelweiss, presenting identification accepted by Quinnox.

• Baldos and Ravone exchange concealed messages under cover of a staged disturbance; Beverly detects the exchange, but the messages' contents remain unknown.

  • Beverly learns that Franz carried an earlier message and that the meeting was arranged. She obtains Ravone's note but cannot read it; Baldos reveals that Ravone identifies her as the American girl and warns him to guard his admissions.
  • Ravone's concealed correspondence becomes the object of an open confrontation. Beverly recovers the note from Marlanx and gives it to Yetive, but its contents remain undisclosed.
  • Correspondence through Franz continues; Beverly assigns it a possible romantic meaning without learning its contents.
  • Baldos admits secret communications without revealing their business and receives another covert, reassuring signal from Ravone.
  • Candace's account reveals that Franz carried a plan to seize Gabriel, explaining part of the secret communications without identifying every earlier message.

• Beverly's demand for an account of the secret correspondence conflicts with Baldos's loyalty to his companions and refusal to betray their confidence.

  • Baldos reverses his refusal and explains his outgoing message to Ravone: he sent wages and encouragement to his comrades and named Beverly as his inspiration. His disclosure leaves her ashamed of her suspicion.

• Beverly recognizes Baldos's courtship as morally troubling while she believes he takes her for the married princess.

  • Beverly learns that Baldos knew her identity and knew she was not Lorry's wife, removing the supposed adultery underlying her moral concern.

• Beverly proposes watching for Franz after learning that he repeatedly carries messages to Baldos.

• Beverly undertakes to keep Ravone's note private if it poses no danger to Graustark, while Baldos requires its return and destruction after she reads it; her inability to read its language obstructs the arrangement.

  • The intended private reading, return and destruction of Ravone's note remain unfulfilled; Beverly instead places it in Yetive's possession.

• Beverly and Baldos agree to continue publicly treating her as the princess while concealing their mutual knowledge of her true identity.

• Beverly recognizes the romantic danger of her intimacy with Baldos and resolves to break its spell, although his withdrawal into formality distresses her.

  • Beverly fears that Marlanx overheard the private encounter, and Baldos recognizes its potential for scandal. Her distress over his danger further exposes the attachment she had resolved to resist.
  • Beverly's effort at emotional distance is undermined by delight in the feather and distress over a possible rival attachment.
  • Beverly alternates between resisting the balcony encounter and yielding to intimacy, ending in mingled joy and shame.
  • Beverly's shame after the balcony encounter gives way to an admission of love, while her intention to defer a proposal preserves her resistance to its consequences.
  • Beverly recognizes her responsibility for encouraging his love but cannot acknowledge it. Her restraint and insistence on departure convince Baldos that she rejects him, intensifying their estrangement.
  • Beverly presses for his departure despite wanting to draw him back, then reacts to apparent romantic betrayal by announcing her own departure.
  • Beverly abandons resistance to their intimacy, declares her love and promises marriage.

• Marlanx seeks promises from Beverly in exchange for sparing Baldos punishment and arranging his exile, using the duel and accusations of espionage as leverage.

  • Marlanx makes his coercive terms explicit, demanding sexual access and then marriage for silence and Baldos's freedom. Beverly refuses and exposes him to Yetive, whose eyewitness knowledge undermines his leverage.
  • Marlanx renews his coercive bargain, but Beverly refuses to comply and hands his document to Yetive herself.
  • Withdrawal of the charges and Baldos's release remove Marlanx's immediate means of coercing Beverly through threatened punishment.

• Reported signal fires around the monastery, valley and southern mountains raise an immediate security alarm whose significance remains unknown.

  • Mobilization and searches initially fail to explain the fires, but the robbery of Mizrox's party supplies the accepted explanation: brigands assembling their squads.

• Exiled temporarily by Volga, Mizrox seeks protection in Graustark and offers to fight Dawsbergen while refusing to betray or fight Axphain.

• Axphain accuses Graustark of sheltering Frederic in a trusted military position; Mizrox's inspection neither confirms nor excludes Baldos as Frederic.

  • Mizrox reports that Frederic was found and killed elsewhere before Baldos's escape, removing the identification underlying Axphain's accusation.

• Frederic intends to marry his cousin secretly against her parents' wishes; whether the marriage has occurred remains uncertain.

  • Frederic's reported death prevents any future execution of his marriage plan; whether he married before dying remains unknown.

• Dantan's betrothal to Iolanda survives an interrupted wedding in the court's account, which reports that she continues sending him messages.

  • Dantan publicly names Beverly as his intended consort and privately secures her reciprocal commitment, superseding the earlier reported betrothal to Iolanda.

• Beverly suspects Baldos's secret correspondence consists of love messages from Iolanda, making his possible identity as Dantan a source of romantic distress.

  • Learning that his secret visits concerned a young woman strengthens Beverly's fear of a romantic rival, without establishing that the woman is Iolanda.
  • Dantan's departure revives Beverly's fear that he is leaving permanently for another woman, though she recalls his promise to return.
  • Suspicion surrounding the female companion briefly breaks Beverly's trust, but his explanation that she is Dantan's sister dispels her jealous resentment and allows mutual declarations of love.

• Beverly announces an intention to return to Washington and requests railway information, but her letter home supplies no convincing commitment or definite departure date.

  • Beverly abandons her intended early return to Washington and decides to remain for the conflict with Marlanx.
  • Beverly renews her previously inconclusive departure plan by announcing that she will return to Washington immediately.
  • Despite her father's order to return, Beverly intends to remain indefinitely and plans a reassuring cable.
  • Beverly again makes departure conditional on Baldos's continued absence; he returns, and she reaffirms her intention to marry him.

• Graustark mobilizes its forces and sends Grenfall and Harry to the frontier after alarming reports of Gabriel's presence with picked troops in northern Dawsbergen.

  • Grenfall and Harry return from the frontier with evidence of raids, and military preparations gain fresh urgency and public enthusiasm.
  • Official verification of Gabriel's capture leads Graustark to suspend battle preparations and troop movements.

• Beverly promises to restore Baldos's former duties and ride with him the following day.

  • Quinnox refuses to restore Baldos's former duties while Marlanx's restrictions stand; the promised restoration and ride are not accomplished.
  • Baldos receives an official inner-guard assignment, and Beverly gains authority to direct his duties that night. The promised ride remains unfulfilled.

• Baldos contemplates deserting Edelweiss to rejoin his mountain companions and tells Beverly that he had considered a final farewell.

  • His contemplated departure becomes an agreement to leave that night and seek Ravone and his companions, with instructions for reaching the chapel unseen.
  • Dantan initially abandons flight out of concern for Beverly, then proceeds at her urging, but the armed interception prevents his departure.
  • After leaving, Baldos returns voluntarily for Beverly, expecting arrest and choosing to face his accuser.

• Beverly fears that Marlanx and Baldos's watcher witnessed her intimate balcony encounter with Baldos.

  • Marlanx's observation becomes an explicit accusation, ending uncertainty about his surveillance. Yetive's own observation corroborates Beverly and counters his claim that Baldos entered her bedroom; the watcher's knowledge remains unestablished.

• Beverly resolves to stay in Graustark and see the struggle with Marlanx through, seeking his overthrow and contemplating summoning Dan to attack him.

  • Beverly confronts Marlanx and brings his charges before Yetive; his removal from army command achieves a central part of her aim.
  • Beverly remains determined to stay, objects to Yetive's apparent defense of Marlanx, and receives a renewed promise that he will be punished.
  • Marlanx loses command, leaves Graustark, and suffers banishment and confiscation, fulfilling Beverly's aim of his overthrow.

• Yetive undertakes to protect Beverly and punish Marlanx, moving to remove him from army command and suspending obedience to his orders.

  • Marlanx recognizes that his army position is insecure, although his removal is not established.
  • After hearing Beverly's account, Yetive renews her protection, investigates the suspected Marlanx's injuries, and conceals Beverly's role in the escape.
  • Grenfall supports Yetive, protects Beverly from having the offensive wording read aloud, and reads the edict removing Marlanx from command; Yetive refuses a further hearing.
  • Marlanx fears impending punishment and seeks to lessen it, but the chapter's events do not specify the final penalty.
  • Yetive's removal and punishment of Marlanx take effect: Braze replaces him, and Marlanx departs under the edict.

• Beverly intends to prevent or defer a marriage proposal from Baldos despite acknowledging that she loves him.

  • Beverly withholds the reassurance that would acknowledge their love; Baldos understands her demand that he leave as dismissal and resigns himself to rejection.
  • Beverly stops deferring a commitment and promises to marry him.

• Yetive permits charges against Baldos while committing to a fair trial and summons him to the castle.

  • Baldos answers the summons and learns that he is to be arrested as a spy the next day, while receiving Yetive's assurance of friendship and trust.
  • Marlanx formally swears to the charges and sends them to Yetive for morning review.
  • The charges reach the council, but Beverly counters the allegation of aiding Baldos's flight by announcing that he is visibly present on duty. No verdict against him is recorded.
  • The accusation receives an immediate hearing, Yetive requires proof and threatens consequences for false charges, and Baldos is arrested.
  • Baldos accepts custody pending verification, Ravone offers an explanation to clear him, Harry objects to his confinement, and Yetive promises honorable acquittal.
  • The charges are formally withdrawn, ending the immediate prosecution; Baldos is released and receives an apology.

• Beverly arranges Baldos's escape before his scheduled arrest, using his guard assignment and an unseen meeting in the unlocked chapel at two; he agrees to leave and seek his companions.

  • Despite Dantan's initial refusal to leave Beverly bearing the blame, she conducts him through the passage and gives him the gate key; armed spies block the exit before he can escape.
  • Beverly and Dantan overcome the attackers and leave the passage. Dantan departs, and Beverly returns safely to the castle; his reunion with his companions remains unconfirmed.
  • The authorities learn of the reported flight, but Baldos's visible presence on duty contradicts the intended outcome of his leaving to join his companions.
  • Baldos completes the departure through the passage but voluntarily returns and submits to arrest, ending the escape arrangement.

• An unknown shooter narrowly misses Baldos; he believes the attack was intended to prevent his reaching the castle, but Beverly forbids his investigating.

  • Dantan recognizes the attackers as Marlanx's spies who previously tried to murder him, connecting the earlier attempt to Marlanx's agents.

• Baldos vows to kill Marlanx after learning of his threats against Beverly, but she orders him to stay and forbids the act.

  • Baldos renews his intention to confront Marlanx, now in Vienna, announcing a journey before marriage and implying armed combat; no confrontation occurs yet.

• Baldos promises to conceal Beverly's involvement in his planned departure.

  • Dantan remembers the danger of disclosing Beverly's name, maintaining his commitment to conceal her involvement.

• Marlanx prepares a signed indictment falsely implicating Beverly in Dantan's alleged wrongdoing.

  • The indictment passes to Yetive and Grenfall, and Marlanx explicitly accuses Beverly of helping Baldos escape through the secret passage. Beverly challenges his account by pointing to Baldos's presence.
  • Marlanx publicly accuses Beverly of opening the passage for Baldos. Her embarrassment exposes her vulnerability, although witnesses recognize that she knew nothing of his repeated journeys.
  • Marlanx retreats from his prosecution and seeks mitigation of his own punishment, undermining his attempt to implicate Beverly; no separate disposition of her indictment is stated.

• Marlanx orders his hirelings to capture Dantan that night or kill him if necessary, threatening punishment if they fail.

  • The attempt to kill Dantan fails when Beverly shoots the cloaked attacker and Dantan defeats Zem, allowing the pair to escape.

• Dantan has already used the secret passage with Franz's guidance for visits concerning a young woman; Beverly learns this, but the woman's identity and the visits' purpose remain undisclosed.

  • The repeated journeys are admitted publicly, and the young woman is identified by Baldos as Dantan's sister; the underlying business remains concealed.
  • Candace explains her escape, disguise, reunion with the band, and Baldos's return to shelter her and protect Beverly. Her account also exposes the underground-passage account as false.
  • The account supplies a security purpose for Dantan's presence at the passage: protecting the rulers against Gabriel.

• Dantan promises Beverly that their separation after the escape will be brief and that he will return.

  • Baldos fulfills his promise of a brief separation by returning secretly and declaring that he returned for Beverly.
  • After a further absence on the prince's mission, Baldos returns and reunites with Beverly.

• Yetive conceals Beverly's assistance in Baldos's escape by telling Ellos that Beverly tried to stop him and shot at him, and orders Ellos and Max to keep the flight secret pending her explanation.

  • Yetive initially keeps the escape from Grenfall, then acknowledges authorizing Baldos's freedom. Marlanx's accusation brings Beverly's alleged assistance before the council, threatening the concealment without establishing his account as true.
  • Marlanx's public claim to have witnessed Beverly opening the panel undermines the protective account that she tried to prevent the escape.

• Gabriel orders Candace killed because he believes she secretly aids Dantan; conflicting reports leave her escape or death uncertain.

  • Candace is publicly identified alive and recounts escaping Gabriel's death sentence with Bappo's help; Gabriel is now imprisoned.

• Grenfall intends to locate the man claiming to be Dantan and restore his throne if he joins Graustark.

  • Baldos recognizes Ravone and presents the indicated stranger to the assembled party as the Prince of Dawsbergen, introducing a claimant without yet establishing his identity or securing an alliance.
  • The fugitive Prince Dantan is identified as Ravone and welcomed, his followers are summoned, and Gabriel is captured; Dantan's restoration remains pending.
  • Reported support for restoration and news of Gabriel's capture improve the prospects of restoring Dantan, although restoration itself is not recorded.
  • Restoration advances through negotiations, Dawsbergen's repudiation of Gabriel, approval of Dantan's manifesto, and his intended departure for Serros.
  • The real Dantan is identified and restored to his throne.

• Yetive orders Dangloss to search everywhere for Baldos after acknowledging that she authorized his freedom.

  • Baldos is located at the castle and taken into custody.

• Baldos identifies his female companion as Prince Dantan's sister but refuses to disclose the business behind his repeated secret journeys and communications, even under threat of death.

  • Candace's identity is publicly confirmed, and her account explains the capture message and Baldos's protective return while revealing that their entry used a gate.
  • Ravone's account reveals the deception used against Gabriel and Dantan's protective assignment, explaining further parts of the concealed activity.
  • The supposed prince is exposed as Christobal, and Candace as his fiancée rather than his sister; the full business behind the secret journeys and communications is not explained.

• Beverly promises to marry Baldos, whom she knows as Paul.

  • Beverly's love persists after she learns Baldos is not Prince Dantan, strengthening the attachment underlying her marriage promise.
  • Beverly confirms the engagement, has informed her father and Fanny, and begins discussing where to marry despite expected family objections.
  • Their marriage intention becomes public and receives collective acclaim; Beverly reciprocates Dantan's renewed proposal, and he promises to come for her wherever she is.

• Baldos asks Beverly to care for his female companion while he faces imprisonment.

  • Candace is safely received into the castle, cared for by Yetive, and later joins the women in the boudoir.

• Yetive receives Candace with unreserved affection and offers her shelter and care.

• Beverly intends to remain in Graustark despite her father's order to rejoin Josephine and return to America and Josephine's demand that she return to Petersburg.

• Beverly plans to appease her father and Josephine with a reassuring cable forwarded from Petersburg.

• Beverly and Candace form an affectionate connection marked by admiration and approval.

  • Beverly and Candace's initial affectionate connection becomes a close and loving friendship.
  • Beverly and Candace share the festivities, and Candace's affectionate praise pleases Beverly.

• Graustark seeks to prevent another escape by Gabriel through reinforced military protection of the mountain prison and its approaches.

• Ravone urges Yetive to send the Duke of Matz an ultimatum offering one prince's release while retaining Gabriel.

• Ravone dispatches three companions to carry news of Gabriel's capture to the frontier.

  • News of Gabriel's capture reaches Matz and Dawsbergen's dignitaries and helps prompt their turn toward peace; the events do not establish completion by Ravone's particular messengers.

• Dantan vows to kill Gabriel on sight and refuses to participate in the expedition to capture him.

• Gabriel's captors learn that he intends to kill his siblings and use the underground castle passage to murder Yetive and Grenfall.

• Dantan undertakes to guard the underground passage against Gabriel if the capture trap fails.

• Graustark negotiates a suspension of hostilities and Dantan's restoration; Dawsbergen's leaders seek peace and renounce Gabriel, while the people demand Dantan's return.

  • The delegation renews its loyalty, Dantan's restoration is agreed and announced, and Graustark is relieved of the threat of war.

• Beverly seeks a title or improved station for Baldos, but learns that he refuses the prince's favors and assistance.

  • Beverly's renewed determination to overcome his apparent low station becomes unnecessary when she discovers that he is the restored prince.

• Baldos seeks release from the prince's service after the negotiations, refusing favors so that he can choose whom to serve; Beverly learns she can discharge him from his remaining enlistment.

  • The supposed subordinate is revealed as the prince himself, dissolving the premise of his release from that prince's service; he instead pledges lifelong devotion to Beverly.

• Beverly anticipates family opposition to marrying a poor, untitled man and prefers marriage before facing her family, while Baldos proposes claiming her in Washington.

  • The poverty and lack of title underlying her anticipated family objection prove illusory; she is publicly recognized as the future princess.

• Beverly's hope of advancing Baldos through her father's influence in America conflicts with his insistence that their married home be in the east; she accepts the prospect with distress and hopes for a Washington visit.

  • Beverly affirms their commitment knowing that his proposed eastern home is royal, and Dantan promises to come for her wherever she is; their travel arrangements remain unsettled.

• Christobal and Candace are revealed as longtime betrothed lovers.

• Graustark and Dawsbergen establish a publicly pledged understanding and common future under the restored Dantan.

• Beverly demands further explanations of the deception, and Dantan promises truthful answers.

Places

Graustark, Vienna, Edelweiss, Washington, Axphain, Dawsbergen, Serros, Radovitch, Balak, Ganlook, Inn of the Hawk and Raven, Labbot, Erros, Ganlook hospital, Rallowitz palace, Paris, Barracks, Castle grounds, Monastery, Castle park, The Balkans, Fairy grotto