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Moreover , he had to telegraph the Prime Minister in Edelweiss that the Prince was not to be budged , and would in all likelihood postpone his return to the capitol . All of which stamped the honest Baron as a most prodigious liar , if one stops to think of what he said to the reporters . The newspapers also printed a definite bit of news in the shape of a despatch from New York to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. William W. Blithers were sailing for Europe on the ensuing day , bound for Graustark ! However , the chief and present concern of the three loyal gentlemen in midnight conclave was not centred in the trouble that Mr. Blithers had started , but in the more desperate situation created by Miss Guile . She was the peril that now confronted them , and she was indeed a peril . Quinnox and Dank explained the situation to the Minister of Police , and the Minister of Police admitted that the deuce was to pay . `` There is but one way out of it , '' said he , speaking officially , `` and that is the simplest one I know of . ''