HALL. PA.
RESERVED Copyright, 1917, by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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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
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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
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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?
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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