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CHAPTER XV—Continued.
eel Bee
Hedwig's notification that she would
visit her, leisure |
and alone,
found the countess at
She followed the announce-
she
she
immediately, and if
almost
had shown cowardice before,
|
showed She disregarded
offered, and
directness
none
Ol
now,
ga Loschek
point with a
the ing's.
the chair
ume to the
hat was like
“T have come,” “to
find out what to
The «
“lI cannot tell
gs, |]
would do.
“Very
touch of
do
OUNntess wus
vou what
0 can
only tell you
11»
Hl
We Hedwig shi
This
bling, and it annoyed her,
“1 should
Herson
impatience
gO away, now,
I cared
“Where woul
“The world
“Not wide
afraid"
afraid.
a} "
about.
“For myself,” said the countess, “the
would t ficult I
to
An old
would
After that
liked. It
“This pr
“Not to a y
rh
rh
problem
should
tains,
gO the moun
my
priest,
place in
who
the
find
well, perform
they
would
1 Ih
might
be
§ y
10
Pp
Ds
are
There is
i bpeinnin
2
8
’
ol
sg —
po.
ae
What Trust?
Can We
n. Let Mettlich guard
i his peril
¢ was not |
or informing
CHAPTER XVI
Nikky and Hedwig.
back to his lodgi
nt wa packing
of
must
Nikky
household,
etl
was
and
now
shi iby rooms for
rmificence of the palace,
ry downhearted
vach day, he
1% In him, piare
delightful
an ol
1 of
his sod:
| tl
invented
thie IL
pockotin
of ho
and tender, frivelons or thoughtful,
the seemed (0 warrant,
All L.WaYE was watchial,
nonsense
laughte
to the
erly soul
Bones,
voit
acrasion
Las
volver always ready and in touch, his
keen, his body, even when it
spring. For Nikky knew the temper
of the people, knew it as did Mathilde
knew that a crisis was approach
and that this small }
ing, on boy in lus
So Nikky
m and in
of the palace,
long and
rambling
right
very
trusted in his
nothing else.
own
The
its unused rooms,
its
turrets,
its rambling corridors,
wings and ancient
against its safety
the against
the riding school hour been
There were no drives in the
The illness of the king furnished
ient but truth
the royal family was practically
it knew
wias
Since demonstratiop
Karl, had
park.
suffie
that
excuse, the
besieged, by not what.
Nikky,
house that morning, had been told the
facts, and had stood, and
while Mettlich them.
precautions are
summoned to the chancellor's
il
{i
rather st
recounted
our dan-
the “And
He stopped and sat, tapph
he arm of h hair
ur very
said chancellor,
i»
rs on t
the King.
“Almost
Karl,
had ret
r irom
euvers
} gling
rdinand William Otto ha
He
ived a
afternoon
toy make Fe
pee] him
Nikky
that
smiled faintly
note fi
It
rece
nck 1 shall go to the
adr ma for
r al
HEDWIG
who In
never
all his incurious young
life had thought of the roof
the palace, save a8 0 NECesISAry shelter
a thing of tiles and
rather
’
Oi
gutters, vastly large, looked
astounded
“The roof!” he sald, surveying
note. And fell to thinking, such a mix-
ture of rapture and only
three, and hopeless, can know,
or other he got through
intefvening hours, and before nine
his way. He had the run
of the palace, of No one no-
ticed him ax he made his way toward
the empty suite which so recently had
honsed its royal visitor
Hedwig, In a soft white
her dinner dress, was at the balus.
trade A dignified fairy, al-
her heart thumped disgrace-
the
despair as
twenty
Somehow
the
Lie was on
course,
wrap over
vers
though
fully
Whatever Nikky had intended-—of
putting his country before love, and
love ant of his life—failed him instant.
lv. The Nikky, ardent-eyed and tender-
wrod. who crossed the roof and took
her almost flercely In his arms, was
all lover—-nna twenty-three.
|
|
“Sweetheart he
est heart!”
When, having her, he
back an trifle for the sheer joy of again
catching her to him, it
who held out her arms to him.
"ul hear it.” sid
love I had you
said. “Sweet-
kissed drew
was
couldn't she simply.
you. to see pgnin.
Just once,"
If he had hig head
stopped
that
and
close,
whis
not
lost
wns
were 2
her
‘Never let me go,
“Hold me, always.
sald Nikky, valiantly and
entirely Jost
it He
content for a
bout his
holding
Nikky,”
then
time
neck,
her
she
thinking,
her
his
]arms
arms ahout
pered,
“Always !"
phsurdly.
“Like this?”
this sald
t lovers,
Nikky
not
who
particularly
wi
“Like
ike TOS
guiar
{i
t!
is promise to
¢ king, of the
t now and very real
imminen
of
which he
word honor
had
4
Mtobm
listened
not to make |
her, broken
cold and
le
pleaded
Hedwig growing
il, and drawing away a She
he
tre
she
was be
stoned, assented,
art
And
his eves
she did not look up
Halfway through his
she drew
her and turned
could not belleve that she was going
like that, without a word. tut when
she had disappeared through the win.
he knew, and followed her. He
avYen
his
still folded
as
own he ywcherous
arms if his
ause
Saw
it
Senger Spee h,
light
away
her wrap
Nikky
dow
her savagely into Bis arms,
jut it was a passive, quiescent, and
trembling Hedwig who submitted, and
then, freeing herself, went out through
the door into the lights of the corridor,
Nikky flung Nmself, face down, on n
buried in his arns,
Olgn Loschek's Inst hope was gone,
LJ . * » * -
On the day of the carnival, which
was the last day before the beginning
of Lent, Prince Ferdinand William
Otto wakened early. The palace still
slept, and only the street sweepers
were about the streets. Prince Ferdi
nand William Otte sat up in bed and
yawned, This wea & special day, he
knew, hut at fire Be was too drowsy
to remember,
Then he knew--Lgs carnival! A de
Hahtful day, with the place full of poo
ple fn sUNsge
|
imps, Jesters, who cut
the park,
wearing
grass in Httle in pro-
fairies
par
costumes of
with
aded
gauze wings, students who
and blew nolsy horn
then
soldier,
and now and
d
in
3] fin 0
He
dres ancer or n
vawned
He
his ov bath
getting a
And,
decide
tin, and began to fecl
decided to get up
vn
start for
the
good gala day.
prince to
fa
crown
to do, which
trait, he took his
particular about
a royal own
helng very his e
ars,
the rest
of him
appeared
Then,
with
no Oskar having yet
he
quite bare
snuggled
fresh garments,
cain
as to and
down In the sheets
there, he ed the day.
to be except
fencing, which could hardly be called
all, and
Gettysburg address”
1
body,
his small
Lying nn
pla
no
were legsons
n lesson at as he now knew
the *
ask
grandfather
he meant to
permission t recite it
To be quite
to
0
he
took
out
Nikky
long
some
did
gutters,
oof, and although
vood-curdling climbing
it could not be found
It was then that the Majordomo, al
ways a marvelous figure in
and gold, and never seen without white
the Majordomo bowed in
window, and ohserved tliat if his royal
highness pleased, his royal highness’
crimson
luncheon was served,
In the shrouded room inside the win.
dows, his royal
paused and looked around.
“I've been here before,” he observed.
“These were my father's rooms. My
mother lived here, When 1 am
older, perhaps 1 can have them. It
would be convenient on account of my
practicing curves on the roof, jut 1
should need a number of balls”
He was rather silent 'n his way
hack to the schoolroom, But once he
looked ud rather wistfully at Nikky.
‘If they were living” he*said, “1 am
pretty sure they would take me out
today.”
Olga Loschek had found the day one
of terror. The failure of her plan as
to Nikky and Hedwig was known to
the countess the night before. Hed
wig had sent for her nnd faced her
ta her boudsir, vary white and calm.
“He rofimen,” fe sold. “There is
noting morn Jo &HY
however,
foo,
ineredulous
ible Men
not po
failed.
“You
There is
and
countess
with burning
th
§ arra
excitemer
nge I
king, living now only
he d
mid-afternoon,
The
decreed ghoul
com-
court
gathered in anterooms and
his In his
n prince would be kept,
ns thr
death
entire
apartments
root
await} mn to the
ne
the
the
room, where ! king's
regency declared,
wou
court would r
wenr f
king, Otto the Ninth,
the
arrangeme
wit)
with
who was
U's ese Ar
is in That Di
rection.”
he made nu round of the palace,
Before he returned
his vigil the king's bed
room, he stood for a moment by a win
and looked Evidently
of the king's condition had
crept out, in spite of their caution.
The place, kept free of murmurs by
the police, was filling slowly with peo-
people w ho took up positions on
to outside
dow out,
on the curb of the street. An
the better clase, Here and there he
gnaw the police agents in plain clothes,
impnssive but watghful, on the lookout
for the first ery of treason,
An hour or twe, of three-~three at
the most—and the fate of the palace
would lie in the hands of that crowd.
He could but lead BO» boy to the bal
cony, and await eh nenuls,
CHAPTER XVI
The Pirate's Den.
nif WAR 0
it?
like that, she
isnt
much better
The
ly scooped up the rest
Then he 01 to
}
aan
i THE
inged
his
on
is in
omething
dlor's r
had
recs
Menace of Croup.
of
spns larynx
ily. Often
baby
and
ome.
Ie
the
the nig the
harsh
hest
a teaspoonful
lation of
11 help to shorten the attack.
best means of
tent ade of
aid concentrating the
It better ase a
compound tincture of
pint of water used In
than steam
one part i
ax well as warm
compresses over the are of
For a child has persist.
ent attacks of croup it is best to as
whether enlarged tonsils and
are not a factor if they
are present have them removed.—
From the Delineator,
inhs
settle is the
ng the steam. A
will
n
in
is to
teaspoonful
benzoin
the croup-kettle
Mustard
five
plasters,
and parts flour,
chest,
value who
certain
ndenoids
——— — ———
Requires Genius to Teach Music.
Knoaviedge of the imitative art is
developed dally by experience of and
comparison with the life they prefig-
ure: knowledge of literature by the
creative habit of speech. Music can
be developed only from experience in
the art of music itself, It iz an abso
late addition to life. But from its
manifold nature, its intangibility, the
irregularity of musical endowment,
and above all from the sparsity of
musical experience In the normal life
of the young, music tequires a certain
genius to teach It well, and In oar
schools the problem is not pet ses
ously attempted.~~Manchoster Guard
iam,