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CHAPTER XVIil—Continued.
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Some of it the boy grasped. A navy,
ships, a railroad to the sea—those he
could understand. Treaties were be-
yond his comprehension. And, with a
child's singleness of idea, he returned
to the marriage.
“I'm sure she doesn't care spout it,”
he =ald at last. “If 1 were king I
would not let her do it. And"—he
sat very erect and swung his short
legs—*“when I grow up, I shall fight
for a navy, if I want one, and I shall
marry whoever I like.”
At a quarter to four Olga Loschek
was announced.
demanded and inquired for the gover-
Ness,
who had risen at her entrance, offered
to see if she still slept.
“I think you are a very
tor,” he and
Miss sitting
It
good doc-
went sut
room.
said, smiling,
Bralthwaite's
that
to
was then Olga
ot)
Ne -
NE
not
even
e 11
of al
iat von cannot leave the
‘She shrugged
Never have
such
arte
And
“RE a
ular “0” in the corner and proceeded
to burn them in.
desk, the very tip of his tongue pro-
truding, and worked
and carefully. Between
he burned a dot.
Suddenly, Olga
panic-stricken. She
and see this thing out.
low her and punish her. She
not! She had done her part.
governess lay in a drugged sleep.
turn of the key, and the door to the
beyond which Oskar waited
would be closed off. Let follow what
must, she would not see it,
“Highness,” she sald,
Larisch will be here in a moment.
nm permit me to go?”
Otto was off his chalr in
“Certainly.” he said, his min
the “O" which he was sha¢ .
Old habit was strong in the countess,
Although the boy's rank w
by moments, although his life
sibly to be by I
a
each
Loschek
could not
could
“Lieutenant
Wil
was pos-
rs,
counted she
him
a curtsy. Then
losed the door behind
The two
They
knew,
she
went
sentries
1
nothing
Nikky
Of.
He opened
we, and
sentries, as he
“I'tl be ba
reid
rrid
of wt fri
ni
The two g
of the
nd hated
ind replied
-y hope
Otto
ou are,
and wen
The regarded
“IL.et him go!’
father,
The other one move
'
sentries
orders cover no su
« “And Iu
hoi to Go
back,” he add¢
Five minutes to four.
The cron hurrie
My does
The cor-
fere and
wl stiff
va prince
cjat™
anid
“And
William
word
lept, and
gone, conunte
a window, holding to the sill
apport her shaking body,
it The in her
hands, There was lelt only to deliver
Him to those who, even now, were on
Nikky He would
houdolr, and Hedwig
She had sent no
Khe was, Indeed, at that mo-
taent nn part of one of those melan-
chioly fewily groups which, the world
over, in palace or peasant’s hut, awall
the comiag of death,
Prince Ferdinand
chatted.
was done, boy was
the way. was safe
wait in
not
her
nt
wold come,
message,
William Otto
for Hedwig, which was finished now,
with the exception «f burning his
initials in the lower left hand corner,
After Inquiring politely if the smell of
burning would ajacoy her, the crown
wart heat
fie dd.
Lky long
Ni
lina ook
Bel
we
vel
it
the
chimney ow
below gutter
slant,
and slid,
edge,
wr.
Put
afraid to
: 3.1
considerable
Nikky,
ver
There
dow
not
sat
n.
le ©
did slic the
fetch up
lt trifle dizzy.
that
and
the gutts
in
He fs
eOory
0
1
+h
i
as, if e is
being afraid.
So the crown prince sat
loping behind tl chim
sathered hig legs une
Well for him t}
of the palace
ww8 with lead, that the
ide and deep, Well for Nikky, too,
ng in the boudoir below and hard
driven between love and anxiety.
The crown prince, unaccustomed to
tiles, turned over halfway down, and
rolled. He brought up with a Jerk
in the gutter, quite safe, but extremely
frightened, He sat there for quite a
| fow minutes. There was no ball in
| «light, and the roof looked even steeper
from this point.
Belug compleisly ssif-engrossed,
therefore, he did not see that the roof
hed another visitor, Rad two visitors,
as a matter of fact.
blanket
“ye
down on the
roof
him
the
bee
ide,
builders 1
vaitl
ta
i t
| white
{
i
J fnstened to his belt,
They climbed of the garden
chairs and looked over the expanse of
the roof, which was when they saw
Prince Ferdinand William Otto, and
gazed at him,
whiz!” said the larger pirate,
through his mask. “What are you do-
ing there?”
The
on one
“Gee
crown prince started, and
stared. “I am sitting here,” exptmuuned
the crown prince, trying to look as
though he usually sat in lead gutters,
“I am looking for a ball."
“You're looking for a fall, I guess,”
observed the pirate, “You don't re-
member me, kid, do you?”
“I can't see your face, but I know |
your volee.” His volce trembled with
excitement,
“Lemme give you a hand,” sald the
pirate, whipping off his mask. “You
make me nervous, sitting there. You've
got a nerve, you have.”
The erown prince looked gratified.
don't need nssist thank
he sald. “Perhaps, now I'm
I'd better look for the ball”
ab the old
th nervous-
“You better
Say, what
railway
ance,
you."
here,
wonldn't
bother mt
e, rT er
a
pretend
nervous?
you
you
look
grandfa
even
1% only a boy
our house
live here”
Ww ii 3
y
I temporized
Pp Otto. A
ind
&
Dick Deadeye Wagged His Tail
terrible thought came to Pim. Sup-
kings and princes, gheald learn whe
he wasn!
“It iooks like a big place.
barracks?”
“No.” He hesitated.
Is it a
“But there are
I<1 never
“1 ghould think not,” boasted Bobby.
“1 discovered them, 1 gress nobody
{
i
They
‘re mine.”
“Really!” said Prince Ferdinand
William Otto, quite delighted. He
would never have thought of such a
thing.
A door of iron bars at the foot of
long flight of steps—there were
four of them- open. Here day-
light, which had been growing fainter,
entirely ceased. And here Bobby, hav-
ing replaced his mask, placed an air
rifle over his shoulder, and lighted a
candle and held it out to the crown
prince,
“You can carry it,” he sald. “Only
don't le* it drip on you. You'll spoil
clothes,” There was a faintly
scornful note in his voice, and Ferdi-
nand William Otto was quick to hear
it.
“I don't care at all about
ciothes,” he protested. And to
it he deliberately tilted the candle and
posse sion.
stood
prove
{
his short Jacket.
“You're a pretty good sport,”
ohserved. And from that time
addressed his royal highness as
sport.”
When they reached the
the candle was about d
ly time
mask out of a plece
|
walsteont, The cor
yb
on he
“old
There w
one,
rls
to fashion
fr
Of
P
cloth that
setnblance to a
own prince donned
ng heart. Never
80 excited.
fl strange
th a wild
and
of the candle,
The
1 the
aired to depart
forgotter
through
trailed
“Ready
old
>}
scent to
and
every man.”
if he
“Even :
iz unarmed?
+}
ne «
lao studied
that an
pris-
rown prince, who
strategy and tact]
nparmed shoul
Hier.
man taken
Sure. Wy
silly. Now,
Then
ich a
don't
Get in
began, for
he had
Land of De-
ne bliss of
f killing
rugs
and
day of ¥ never
Jt
WwW
on
was
qd n ¢
When
stretched
they were weary, the
and
5
ont on the grout Ve
whose bed
warming pan for
wallowed Hy
soft with the melting
winter. He grew muddy
He had had no hat, of
ight
dried with
d
a
suf
11
IMPRESS, Hi on
of the
COlUrse,
ty.
strands,
As dusk des ended, the erowd grad
to supper,
n¢
dispersed
some
For
would
streets around the palace,
not down.
At last
» nickel watch
1 it's
the
almost supper time,”
watch, the one witl
“To Ferdinand Wil-
his grandfather, on
taking his first
his own
Otto, from
of
liam
the
communion.”
“Why can't you come home to sup-
per with me?” asked the senlor pirate,
“Would your folks kick up a row rn
“I beg your pardon?”
“Would your family object ”
“There is only one person who would
mind,” reflected the crown prince,
aloud, “and she will be angry, anyhow,
[—do you think your mother will be
willing 7”
“Willing? Sure she will! My gover
ness—but I'l fix her. 8Bhe's a German,
and they're always crank Anyhow,
it's my birthday. I'm always allowed
a guest on birthdays.”
So home together, gayly chatting,
went the two children, along the cob-
ble-paved streets of the ancient town,
past old ckweches that had been sacked
occasion his
that twisted
between ;
LArTOW passages and
rormed thelr way and »
finally, to the door of a tall buildin
where, from the concle
the entrance,
stewing garlic.
Neither of the children had noticed
the unwonted of the
which had, almost suddenly,
the nolse of the carnival. What
passers-by they had had been
hurrying in the direction of the palace,
Twice they had passed soldiers, with
lanterns, and one had
and flashed a light on them.
“Well, old sport!” said
English, “anything you
ory
me?
Id
ergs
rge s
room he-
side came a
silence
’
seen
once
Jobby In
can do
i
|
a knife
had e
to cut the
' A fry
xcused him-
buck,
Thorpe
self for a moment.
ith a bottle wrapped In a newspaper,
nd sat
Now he came
down again,
“1 thought,” he sald, “as this is a
casion not exactly Robert's
coming of age, but marking his
Of x
arrival
he period when
boy and be-
7d
5
bi
a we might
oast to It)
“Robert!”
one
objected the
§
i
i
i
“A teaspoonful each,
“It changes It
to a festivity.”
He poured a few drops
1dr
131
honey.”
from
supper
en's glasses,
with water
dren, The
consumedly
The
two laughe
nt
youngsters
witticism
was
the
His
m, and went back her
nterrupted cookin The children hur-
ried up the stalr
ith {ts fron
forge at
{ ge ou
to
or
=e
winding
rail and its
floor.
stone
hy
to the second
In the
FOVOrness
wtetd big
sittin ti
Ig room
darning
small sto
CIOCK.
next room
we center of the
th able.
d the cake herself, ans
n one of the n
the cake really read
“hs” |
\ y
XI"
However, looked
ad been baked
il and a new
i+
it
Br
of
mascu
having passed
the rest of the si
ult. Mrs. T}
Otto,
ssively
rried
brought
Tittle
Bobby
: 0 Ww i
+ ha
Then ghe sto]
tht his }
ding over her hand,
tly ns he kissed his
a's when he went to have
Mrs. Thorpe was
at the ki but at
the tribute was
he looked
8 8
wols
The and
down,
Po
nant
ns
omposure to Fer
nand Willis
was after
small boy.
she
forehead.
to Ferdinand
little heart
leaped and pounded. iat moment,
would have for her!
Mr. Thorpe came home a little late.
He kissed Bobby twelve times,
on. He shook hands absently
with the visitor, and gave the
lein the evening paper——an
jee on which he insisted,
could read the news for
going to the cafe on the
Then he drew his wife aside.
“Look here!” he said. “Don’t tell
no use exciting him, and of
it's not our funeral, anyhow
but there's a report that the crown
prince has been kidnaped. And that's
all. The old king is dying!”
“How terrible!”
“Worse than that.
and no crown prince! It may mean
nl any of trouble! I've
closed up at the park for the night.”
{lis arm around his he looked
through the doorway to where Bobby
and Ferdinand counting the
nd “It's made me think pretty
Ai
ward, said. mustn't
died
and one
ETOW
extra.
not!
corner.
lobhy
most gort
wife,
were
£ len,
} " “Bobby
he go
are considered
crown prince
All Americans here
millionaires, If the
could go, think how easy
His arm tightened around his wife,
and together they went into the birth.
day feast. Ferdinand William Otto
was hungry. He ate eagerly-—chicken,
fruit compote, potsto eahld-—agaln
shades of the court physicians, who
fed him at night a balanced ration of
milk, egg, and zwieback! Bobby also
ate busily, and conversation lan
guished,
Then the moment eame when, the
first cravings appeased, they sat back
in thelr chairs while Pepy cleared the
i
|
i
{
had loved ones
nake
brought
wf ot
was i tor
Xr ACA NCO
Quarter, Except to Women and
Children.”
the good king and
nd of Livonia.”
to drink it, and ev
you
brave
Ferdina
n
gaid Mr. 1
except the
w disapproved of chi
ch of, and only }
to sip her wine.
BE C
horpe
Frau-
idren be-
wwetended
(TO
and Turgenev in Fierce Dis
That Might Have Led to
Deadly Encounter.
pute
Tolstoy
Rian 141
Turgenev, famous Rus-
woraries
contemy
and frie but occasion they
had a serious falling As gathered
from a recent biography, this is the
of their quarrel: The two fa-
mouse novelists met at a friend's house,
Tu spoke enthusiastically of
his yosng daughter's new En h gov-
erness, mentioning that she required
the child to mend old, ragged clothes
to give to the poor. “Do you consider
that good 7" demanded Tolstoy. “1 cer-
tainly do,” replied Turgenev ; “it makes
the charity workers realize everyday
needs.” “And I think that a well
girl with filthy. malodorous
rage in her hands is acting an insincere
{ > commented Tolstoy. “1 ask
you not to say that,” exclaimed Tur
genev, hotly. “Why should 1 not say
what I am convinced is true?” retorted
Tolstoy. “If you say that again I will
box your ears!” Turgenev cried, white
with rage, and rushed from the room.
A duel was narrowly averted. After
ward these famous men became rec
onciled, and on his deathbed Turgenev
wrote an affecting note to Tolstoy, ad-
dressing him as “the great writer of
our Russian land."—Outlpok.
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cupled feeding them, and the other
workere needed to repalr rat damage
number 30,000,
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