The Lonesomest Doll
shocked and surprised. But the Queen sent for Captain Raoul and for Pierre, whom she had made a Lieutenant, and asked them whether the army would not be on her side. And they said, “Yes, indeed!” The soldiers were all for their little Queen. That very day they were going out to find and punish Jean and Jacques for daring to interfere with her. For whatever she wished must be done in the kingdom, and it would go hard with any one who opposed her.
Then the uncles and aunts looked queerly at one another, and trembled. But they sent to look the matter up in the big book of the State Laws, where they found nothing to say that a queen should not have her will in the kingdom of her father and grandfather and great-grandfather. Moreover, you see, the army was on her side. So they were forced to agree that what she wanted she might do.
After that, with Raoul and Pierre to help her, there was no trouble. The Queen came and went from the palace to Pierre’s home, where she played half the time at being a little cottage girl like Nichette, with a real father and mother to love her.
