HALL. PA. RESERVED Copyright, 1917, by Mary Roberts Rinehart TIT TITYYTYYYyYy YY YY CHAPTER XIiX-—Continued. a, said the Haeckel. slowly, “Bad “Aye!” said us io work? Then, and with ditlicul understand.” “The king is dead.” "Aye" Haeckel, comprehending he king?" “Dead. H “Then—" orinuiate very fot observed still ar the bell” ould thought n He ut he « not at once his mind Speech came hard. “They say." . . £ that the wn prince is mi The said the cre ww has been stolen, ‘renzied.” He w 3till Haeckel labored. n pri ent on, dilating on the rumors, The king! The nee 4 il Nv Jy < \ Zo 4 7) 1} Kil il Ww / ¥ whit¢ fantastic figures Those w= ipons from the I } passed, were unarmed seized we crowd they Haeckel, they ran Haeel had wn that they with him. His mind, almost unnatural to honse Children fng there last he Just turned into gireet, n had dashed out of it and flung himself out of the sad dle, The ‘inor bolted, but it opened to his ring, and Nikky faced the conclerge, Nikky, with a drawn re- volver in his hand, and a face deathly white, through It knew the in the Road of the Goo and to His would what might be ena Now unless eves burned at thwart them they horseman hefore the was even to gpeak. the flail Behind Nikky avalry., But riding fren- and hold » blow from Concierge, was coming, ACTOSS must this grasp of the wl for them con From t was a losing bnat- But he of a ed by that waeleht hefore, the strength ns equa , nnd He w batts his was ent down red finally twisted fig- ert, breathing har in the He stood it the foot street, ans at bay, a of the lie il ove 41] en sword CHAPTER XX. The Lincoln Penny at last, King Otto the palace tn the Nnt a tired litt short Ninth hurried the a royal fig and was room where nt nll le hoy In ton which had gray tron and a heen black cont, collar once one glance around the roon he sald And fell is dirty pocket-hand orchief The chan der his shagey ollor eved grimly from un hrows the disreputable figure of his sovereign. Then he went toward him head “He very * he sald. Then he knelt wns eager for this rest, and very solemnly the small, not overclean, hand, One by one the council did the same thing. King Otto straightened his shoulders and pot away the handkerchief, It had occurred an now and must the world, “M Ly [| soe didn't see him him that Het a to in him?" he before.” “Your people said 1 Y 1 Die must are waiting, Wo t" ) ellor gravely come ‘firs “ 1 And roo y Maar v 80, in the clear 2 behind him, Otto the before und They figure, that honesty an SAW the blue eyes had ck d coura the et such of thelr tears, the ge of this small boy ) king. crown ne 19 sr « ot.” dogged nnd not at all! now of his mother. “I am gullty of ail that happened” The chancellor had meant to he very But he through a deal. and besides, he saw whether the sald Nikky, look like the picture hard had eome pron b ROM He snw that the boy had come to the breaking “dit down,” he sald, “and tell me about it." Nikky would not sit, He stood straight ahead, and told the | He left nothing ont, the scene dnt looking tory “Although.” he added, his only word of extenuntion, “God knows I tried to keep it." Then Loschek, fo the message from Countess | and his long wait In her hon. roturn to the thing he had | found. A= he went on, the chancellor's | hand touched a hutton, “Rring here at once Countess Los. chek,” he sald, to the servant who came, “Take twy of the guard, and | bring her” doir Then, 1 do | “Thes | to ne Nikky and the | #nough hand, yi 1 fount “Orthers i not Nikky steadil hancellor got up and, on his Juite to the not in her rooms With and the or palace the bonfires indfatl treets nan.’ H v ' : Vith the police making car like" men whose name tements re entiy what with extra is pot exactly soll 1 king from his pil- hy had sat { His sturdy old arms . am Oskar was gathering the royal gar | closely "iu which the or I i 1, in case of germs, dered burned ever eat American int to tell abont running fewwyed This I am promise not to do it again” “Make mn lesty “1 will king." “God grant it. majesty” “Like Abraham Lincoln? “Like Abraham chancellor gravely. The king, for all his boasted fulness, yawned again physicians had ments anid the king, wid in “1 am sorry time “Did cream?” you {ee Not that I reeall” fous,” “No, majesty. “It is and He yawned, “Oskar!” “Yes, majesty!” “There is something In my trousers pocket. 1 almost forgot it. Please bring them here.” | Sitting up in bed, and under Oskar's | disapproving eye, because he, too, was infected with the germ idea, King the It I intend to be a very good promise to yourself the down in his sheets, sat up suddenly deli observed settled then VOry is the best way." Lincoln,” sald wake and squirmed closer te the old man’s breast, “And like my grandfather” added “God grant that, also.” This time it was the chancellor who | yawned, a yawn that was half a sigh. | He was very weary, and very sad. “The one in which your majesty's | gonl ring came is here. Also there is | one In the study which contained crayons.” ! “I'll have the ring box,” sald his | majesty. i And soos the Liaseoln peany rested pockets, until at last he had found “Have I a small box anywhere, a spoke: | wants?” “Not at all” hastily. “Rut, If it will po® Bart the people? i i i CH ATTIRE Grotesque » KAMe name vadays “8 Why limits of long the last nobody two Great Tibetan Industry. By far the deer are to largest herds of musk found on the southern of the Koko-Nor, and the sup musk there (at 1 is than the quantity comes In fact, great quan- tities of musk do not come to Sungpan at all, but are to Yuchow, in Honan, where a fair is held in the ninth and tenth moons, many of the Sungpan traders visiting this place. At Tachienly musk is the valuable export, practically every hong reeking with it. and nearly all Tibetans who come from the far interior bring some with them. The price of medium musk there is thirteen times its weight in silver, be shores ply of larger through Sungpan aochou) that sent east most the Best Methods. An ounce of prevention is worth well, you know what it is. The best way to put out a fire Ia not to let it start. The best way © eure a wid
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