 " Jack prepares to save the queen , but has hit on no definite plan . Then Father Paul proposes a scheme . The queen 's prison is on the ground floor ; it is possible for her to stretch her hand through the bars . And Jack marries the woman he loves , though a stone wall is between them . The priest , with the bridegroom is outside , and the careless guards do not see them . Rupert then sends for his cousin again , and for the second time he offers to marry her . But she spurns him . Then he orders her execution . The sentence is about to be carried out when Jack arrives with a squad of U.S. troops from a troop ship in the harbor . The queen is entitled to their protection , for she is now the wife of an American . And she gets it . Rupert loses his life and the ensuing combat . " 
