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CHAPTER XIV.
The Crown Prince's Pilgrimage
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returned, the countess rouse erase] Th ning of such a pilgrimage ‘uriously, while
enough to send for Black Humbert, | dawned suddenly on the bo} is o3 . r bar
in the kitchen below. He had | filled, and because he consider t un- me to her by whi
hat she was malingering un- {manly to weep, he slid from hair | came, the terrorists
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i hollow cheeks showed her condition. |} n afraid he's going to die | kneelir she turt 4 ie :
“You must return and explain,” she | aaid, in a smothered voice { mind. It was poss ; if cenled. re, will Sop :
aid. “I shall need more time, after {| The chancellor followed him to the | be made plausible, with her assistance, time, the Prine e Ferdinand
all.” | window, and put an arm around his | And at the vision it evoked-——Mettlich's Otto. Who will SUSE Fi
When he hesitated. she added: | shoulders, “Even that would not be horror and rage, Hedwig's pul ng | 108 Bone antastic gard
“There are plenty to watch that 1 do | so terrible. Otto.” he sald. “Death, | tears, her own triumph-—she took a atval : die kos?" inauired ‘oll a
not escape. I could mot, if I would. | fo the old, is not terrible. It is an deep breath. Revenge with a ven But the Ne UY ed “He Adel
I have not the strength.” | open door, through which they go glad. | geance, retaliation for old hurts and | bert in a salad voice, iy ean
“If madame wishes, I can take a let- | ly. because—because those who have | fresh injuries, these were what she | YOU Set a day, W the king may
es {n | Ally? 1 thought all hung on the king's
death.”
| Karl Left Her There at Last. '
ith blood ard al * panue- | . bt ter.” | gone ahead are walting just beyond: found on her knees, while the beil
of hell break loose, [by one. No one knows where, but all | She pondered over that, interlacing the valley commenced the mass, snd |
Karl failed bor. She clinched | suspect. Student meetings are pro-| her fingers nervously as she reflected. “Are my mothor and father wait- [a small boy, very rapt and very earn- |
hibited, The yearly procession of “I will send no letter,” she decided, | ing?” est, prayed for his grandfather's life
countess did not sleep. 8he veterans is forbidden, for they trust “but I will give you a message, which | “Yes, Otto” Yet the bargain came very close to
King Karl becomes acquaint.
ed with the troubled state of
the country in the next install.
ment. Il
i brain, | none, even their old soldiers, The you can deliver.” [ie considered. “And my grand {being made the other way that day,
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, With every fiber of her Ke
mmoning her arguments. She would | council meets day after day in secret “Yes, madame,’ | mother?” and by Karl himself, i
1 them, for she kKnew-—npone better | session.” “Say to the committee that I have “Yeu On the day of the pilgrimage Karl |
¢ great a handicap was hers.| “But the army" | reflected and that 1 will do what they “He'll be very glad to sce them all | found himself strangely restless and _. .
ved Karl, and he knew it. What! "They do not trust the army.” ask. As far,” she added, "as lies in lagnin” | uneasy. Olga Loschek haunted him, (TO BE CONTINUED)
win her strength had become he r| Karl's face was grave. Something my power. 1 can only try.” “Very happy. indeed. But we need | her face when he had told her about ————————— —
RKDeSS, [of the trouble in Livonia he had “That is all the committee expecta” | him bere, too, for a while, You need the letter, her sagging figure when he | Japanese are planning to link two
Yet she was composed enough when. | known. But this argued an immediate | he sald civilly, and with a relief that | him and—1. So we will go and pray | had left her, | of their islands with a rallroad tun.
before the sun was well up, the ma- | crisis, | was not lost on her, “With madame’s | to have him wait a little longer be Something like remorse stirred on nel, 4.000 feet of which will be under
chine dr up ‘a the village before “On the king's death,” the countess | Intelligence, to try 1s $0 succeed.” | fore be goes away, How about it?" (him. She had taken grest riska for | the sea.