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We passed between the columns into the sanctuary, but the main hall where the artworks were kept stood firmly locked. Herman and I walked slowly along the cloister that ringed its outer edge.
“Tell me a little more about it.”“About what.”“The wager.”
I’d grown suddenly curious why Herman had ever made a wager with His Majesty the Emperor in the first place.
“Nothing much. It started as the sort of squabble over pride that everyone gets into at that age.”
Herman told me how the whole thing had come about.
“His Majesty had spent the whole day before boasting that...
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