I MUST BE DREAMING A FANTASY,. IT IS SUCH AN UNLIKELY SCENARIO. IT IS VIVID.

BEAUTIFUL LITHUANIAN CROWN JEWELS

In the fourteenth century The Lithuanian Empire stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and from Brest to Smolensk. Lithuanian Princes entered the League from that privileged position.  Half, quarter, maybe no chance at a throne or a position at the Royal Court, get far enough from home and no one would know except that you were a Black Prince, invisible, without light illuminating you fading into the background but obviously an Aristocrat.

THERE ARE MANY SIGNS THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LESSER LINE OF PRINCES. THE WALLS COVERED IN OLD MASTER PAINTER'S FRAMED OIL PAINTINGS FOR ONE.

THERE WAS A MEETING IN 1913 THAT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED WORLD WAR I BY ARRANGING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF A PROBLEMATIC HEIR TO A THRONE WHO WAS A FASCIST. IT WORKED OUT VERY BADLY. THE LEAGUE OF BLACK PRINCES HAS KEPT A VERY LOW PROFILE SINCE THEY CAUSED THAT WORLD WAR # I.

THERE IS GOING TO BE A MEETING, POSSIBLE IN THE VIRTUAL REALITY OF THE INTERNET WITHOUT ANY RISK.

BENITO AND LINDON WILL ATTEND.

I, DRUNKY COACAMO, WILL ATTEND AS THE AMBASSADOR FROM CARTOONLAND. I TRADED A PAINTING TO GET THAT POSITION. DRUNKYCOCAMOVISION WILL ATTEMPT TO CREATE VIDEO OF THE IN MANY WAYS NONEXISTENT MEETING WHERE THE BLACK CARDS ARE PULLED.

THE DAMNED PLETHORAGIC PLAGUE OF DING DONG FASCIST DEMAGOGUES REQUIRES AN ADDRESSING.

UP GOES A PAINTING OF THE TIN POT DICTATOR OR KING.

EXTREMELY VALUABLE, DONE BY AN OLD MASTER PAINTER, DEAL WITH THE DANGEROUS MIND, GET THE PAINTING TO SELL PROBABLY TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.

IT WAS A COMPLICATED PROCESS, AS SAFE AS RUSSIAN ROULETTE, FURTHER COMPLICATED BY DRAWING CARDS SEEKING A BLACK CARD.

THAT IS HOW THE SERB WAS SELECTED. WAS HE THAT BAD?

I OVERHEARD ONE LINE OF DISCOURSE: PORTRAITS OF  COMMIE-FASCISTS HAVE BEEN CREATED TO BE AUCTIONED ON LINE.

I OVERHEARD THAT SOME BLACK HEART PUT A WHOLE PILE OF EXTRA BLACK CARDS INTO THE DRAW DECK. 

POSTSCRIPT:

As a  cartoon character I, like many Black Princes, have no money. It is a prerequisite.

I can get you a painting however. Yes I really can.

THERE IS THE WINE CELLAR GOURMAND.

I AM GETTING MY SEGUE IN ORDER NOW.

THE LEAGUE MIGHT HAVE TO PRODUCE ITS OWN WINE AND HASHISH, CAUSED BY IMPECUNIOUSNESS. HOWEVER THE LEAGUE HAS A CURRENCY TO ADVANCE THE REALLY BIG ISSUES, THE FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR BILL. THE LEAGUE COULD ALWAYS GET YOU AN OLD MASTER'S ASSASSINATION PORTRAIT. DEAD OR ALIVE, THE LEAGUE MIGHT HAVE A LEFTOVER PORTRAIT WORTH A BUNDLE IN THE RIGHT CIRCLES. 

The foremost artist of the Dutch Baroque and probably the greatest ever portrait painter in the history of art, Rembrandt was the most sensitive and perceptive painter of the human face - the gateway to the soul - while his complete mastery of shadow and light lent his portraits an added drama - even super-reality.

MR BILLIONAIRE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A BLOODY GREAT MASTER PORTRAIT?