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172 taken to be the King in Strelsau, while neither he nor Queen Flavia knew that the King was dead. I must now relate the strange and perverse succession of events which forced them to employ a resource so dangerous and face a peril so immense. Yet great and perilous as they knew the risk to be even when they dared it, in the light of what they did not know it was more fearful and more fatal still.