العدد القليل هم Fritz, Sapt, Michael, Antoinette, Michael's men
البلدة الهادئة هى زندا Zenda
الأمر هو انقاذ الملك ليعود لمملكته وذلك من أيدي أخوهالشرير - ومن يقوم بهذا شخص يقوم بدور الملك
هذا والمعنى في بطن الشاعر الذي بهدل النص الأصلي
وها هو النص الأصلي الخاص بهذا الجزء:
It is perhaps as strange a thing as has ever been in the history of a country that the King's brother and the King's personator,in a time of profound outward peace, near a placid, undisturbed country town, under semblance of amity, should wage a desperate war for the person and life of the King. Yet such was the struggle that began now between Zenda and Tarlenheim. When I look back on the time,I seem to myself to have been half mad. Sapt has told me that I suffered no interference and listened to no remonstrances; and if ever a King of Ruritania ruled like a despot, I was, in those days, the man.Look where I would, I saw nothing that made life sweet to me,and I took my life in my hand and carried it carelessly as a man dangles an old glove. At first they strove to guard me, to keep me safe,to persuade me not to expose myself; but when they saw how I was set,there grew up among them--whether they knew the truth or not--a feeling that Fate ruled the issue, and that I must be left to play my game with Michael my own way