The Unlikely Adventures of Ranulf the Unready

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Near the end of the first year of WWI a woman presented herself to the American Embassy at Sofija, the Americans still neutrals, then doing the routine diplomatic duties of the warring nations.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><!--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">She was short and blonde and would have been a beauty except for a raw scar across her forehead and down on to her cheek and the ravages to be expected from far advanced pregnancy in a starving, war time country.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">She insisted she was<!--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--><st1:city><st1:place> Xenia</st1:place></st1:city>, Princess of Illyria and heir to the throne. She had escaped from the Communist massacre of her family while at their summer villa on the<st1:place> Black Sea</st1:place> and traveled across country to Bulgravia. If true she was then also the second cousin of both the British King and the Russian Czar.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Disbelieved she conceived her own proofs. She wrote out a series of questions about the Royals of Victorias far-flung progeny. Then she wrote out the answers and promptly disappeared.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In time it was determined that both questions and answers revealed a very detailed and intimate knowledge of the Royals. A knowledge that could only be known by a highly placed member of the family.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In this the second of the series Ranulf who knew<st1:city><st1:place> Xenia</st1:place></st1:city> as a child is assigned to locate her and vet her as to her identity. The Lady Audra is sent along to fend off any extraneous perils such languorous Balkan spies or whatever<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ogres might be conjured up by Rannies exuberant imagination and adventuresome spirit. They meet several of each.</p><p> </p>

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