THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. LONG LIVE THE KING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED By Mary Roberts Rinehart Copyright, 1917, by the Ridgway Company Copyright, 1917, by Mary Roberts Rinehart TTTTeTTeTTTITTTYTTTYY CHAPTER XVIil-—Continued. ! Welderman walted, for who stood by the bed | aerimoniously ; almost they penetrated the cooked t Adel 1 1 ready Old the o blac and he supper +t) Of is and to the with a] Fn Vou silent room beyond, Nikky Larisch, cov. with dust and spotted with froth He his boyish face drawn his On to the of ¢ stove, bert atched “Bobby his friend of gain from Etzel, administered The king had roused t the father in a w me clean! Itis h sCou le.” irank to i Doctor Weiderman bent over the | yond 2gkringy a bed. “Majesty,” he implored, “if there N Te and dr i inv LO on a shady in Tw Fraulein, a tht his mother, ther Gregory, many | discussion and the | came rod By irs catch in thing her had come a he sacrament, it, had he ered from “haven't you some- Irs, that {0 sugee as a toast?” it was who had his horse entered withou + t tor and 2 ' | rorefmony Bobby's eves were on the he ceremony, difficulty. alee * Cle, { smiled white 115 u came back with and miled a A e¢, his cap he home’ pone, eyes ir “Sol” said, almost hisper, nrd ing. “The Some one meditated, be “Home!” they and Home! house to the the mountains of chancellor?” pointed ould sen he sald, to “you w to wou nll 1 1 1d ket the room be- 1 +1 tins kc an old Ke } f 1 } all a little shak- ily, i : hen, belt tragedy Le n ahd off, Thorpes, a little hing we can do in America; cottage in an old tene- street ; 4 Ie |i ' comfor wok It itched . “Give me Hubert's picture” lacing | tn : When p | " he said. “1 have Ta mysels 1 ie Germany and the where nt at king come mother; to ment Fer suite room than rounded preceder Ee A \ pe - CN A “Make-—Haste” He Said, Stiffly to the fewer om Mett! photogrn BOVEY 4 gem torched He put it on his | shar Heol of a crown “Doctor!” [IL IIL Some one raised guard stepped whic! he jee vessels lt Mig 4 want? Doctor Weiderman enm They Then sciousness deli (odd nt you nearly 1.00) s 1.100 merch no the ! cried. “Show posed shtedls othors following Pa Rieu y 1 foil ng i bed round the th t i he WS means his crown lowered the Fer the Prince outside the remained balcony them, w the | t of weRinn HL lowly 10 anartinents H Se a VORSOLIR, s nt : stared nto ns at the long windows were nt for air shook to and figure shoulder “Madame! tiesty h other the be Magic words, indeed swiftly before In only Doors opened But confusion opened curtains no childish The cries kept up, but there in the note now, Long live one, them time the thought, to { as its wa too his here 14 had hancellor ' ¥ i io small, old man one It told his imbing of stairs takes time old and fatigued, and one leg. However, oid Adsihert Mettlich stagge 8 't. and | 1¢t Rang Out, Slow, Ominous, Terrible. 4 n long look ’ his { {| Was a snarl and king hing “I have heard “The t anid many times, Whea St, Stefan's | WW] tolls like that, the king Is dead! A man “No! No!” cried Ferdinand Wil | Adelbert, nm Qtto and rap madly out of the | a flanieg door, emerged reach would have been every pian tonk ! . id nye . LL should now be ghe said slowly the king have news at ono Ling ! KIDDE is 1 1 conception % I { would dispose we have some task of shipbuilding. equ and repairing carried on by the i admirmity when but had been he i ha things he? | mous } one is has the room in a red costume, near old leaped on & box and lighted torch. “Aye!” he yelled, | where comieil free of chancellor's pres happening : “ | council waited Fhe the restraint of the f once had fallen 4 we, rails fe, "the up with at last it was done, and stumped to the door of | CHAPTER XVIII, The King Is Dead. Now at last the old king's hour had come, Mostly he slept, as though his for its long rest, had al given up the struggle. Stimu. mints, gives by his devoted poysician, tind no effect. Other physicinnsg there ware, a grovn of them, but it was Doe- Yody, Lis 1 FALE § rendy hey frees, | They { the | | Already had it could yoy | nt thie | hand nto low-valced con as to the rumors done? of the Ipless before them could be White the ts jut eo despairing to put them, within of the fortress | learned the palace, before midnight, RATrTIisON to arrive but voi id given dend NR 8OON 08 the other in the hope that flight Bayerl, on Then, at happened, rose | The nse his “ * - at con fUPper was of the heavy and tay had he the committee he hel old heart was may net be au something had gone, What have they done with him?” Old Adelbert pushed on, The voice of the revolutionist died behind him, in a chorus of fury. From nowhere, apparently, came lighted box banners proclaiming the chancellor's and demanding a republic. them instructed the people to gather around the parliament where, it was winted, leading citizens were already forming an republic. Some, more vio lent, suggested an advance on the pul ace, The crowd at first ignored them, but oe (reason, Some de- the the council sat the chancellor paced ! the room where bating and floor. Small ceremony now. Led by sol I diers, who retired and left him to enter alone, old Adelbert stumbled into the He was out of breath and dizzy; his heart beat to suffocation. There was not air enough in all the world to breathe. He clutched at the | yvolvet hangings of the door, and | swayed, but he saw the chancellor, | “The crown prince” he sald thick. 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