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Show The landman Story for Tonight The Princess and the Pearl PART I. Once there lived in a cave In the side of a mountain an old witch and her four daughters. Now, it Is not thought by witches to be lucky to have an even number of children, so when the youngest child, Freda, came to the old witch she wss very much displeased, aa she felt her magic power would be Injured. Ho poor Freda was ' an unwelcome child, and her three sisters, being like their mother, the witch hated Freda, and the poor child was left to grow up aa best she could. Freda grew to be a very beautiful girt, while her three sisters were not st all handsome, though their motiier thought them very beautiful and always al-ways called them "my pretties." while she seldom spoke to poor little Freda unless to find fault. One day, while hunting In the forest, a prince became separated from his attendants at-tendants and lost his way In the woods. He made his way to tne mountain through the thick trees snd brush and came upon Freda sitting by the door of her mother's cave. "Tell me the way out of this forest, my pretty lass." said the prince, "and I will give you a bag of gold." When Freda lifted her eyea to his he fell in love with her, for ner eyes were as blue as the sky and her race as fair as a blush rose: her hair waa like spun gold and hung In ringlets over her shoulders, falling below her waist. "Sifh beauty sa thla snoilld tTare s palace," thought the prince. "It shouid not be burled in thla place." . "Oh, go away from here as fast as ever you can," aald Freda. "My mother and my sisters will he back any mlnutr and I would not answer for whst might happen if they knew you had gold with you. ...... "I 'do not want your gold, but If yon follow thla path around the mountain you will come to an open place on the ' other side." But the prince could not keep away from the beautiful girl who had won his love, and the next day he waa on his way to the cave wnen he met Freda on the open side or the mountain. moun-tain. He brought Freda a beautiful dreas and a bracelet of Jewels and told her that every day he would come to the same place if she would be there. "My mother Is a witch snd she wilt j surely do us both harm If she finds out I am meeting you," said Freda. "Please I keep away. It can only bring harm to both of us." "If your mother is a witch then I must get a fairy to help us." said the prince, "for at my birth a fairy came to my mother and gave her this pearl and told her to give It to nie when 1 was old enough to care for It. 1 "This pearl has the msglc power to i become anything I wish tor and disau- j pear at my command. "Here we will have a castle, which shall disappear whenever anyone comes near It but ourserves, snd in It we will live until I can tell my father j I have married the girl I love best In the world." I Then the prince threw the pearl on 1 the ground and wlshec. snd there be- i fore her eyes stood a beautiful marhle i castle. 1 Thttt day they wer married, tnd i every day after that tn prince came to the castle, and Freda would net . away from her three sister and mother j and roam thronjrh the beautiful rooms of her new home. i One day her sistfrs watched her, f or f they had noticed that each day shei went around the mountain. They crept after her. and, to their surprise, tbey saw the oeautiful castle I and saw her enter it. ! , They ran hoifie to tell their mother, and all of them ran around the rooun- I tain, but when they came up to the I castle, to their surprise rt disappeared, j and there they saw standing under a 1 tree Fred and the prince. 1 As the castle disappeared. It warned ; them, of course, that someone was I near, but the old witch o nan Ked her ' daufthter and herself into trees, for ! she knew well that a maftic power of some sort bad caused the castle In ' disappear, and she wanted to walcli ; i without beine- seen. I Kreda bid her prince (rood bye. quick - ' ly running around the mountain to her! ; home, and soon her mother and her three sisters came bark. ! They did not quenuon Frvla. hut i the next day they watched her arm In j and saw her enter the castle and saw : the prince ride up on ms beautifjl I white horse. It did not take the old witch h ne to discover that Freda's lover was a-prince, a-prince, and she decided that one of I her pet daughters should have him for a husband. It would not have mattered mat-tered to the old witch if she bad known that Freda was married to the i ; prince, as she knew the magic art of ; the witches and could change things to please herself. ! There was just one tning that the, old witch could not have ptrwer over, ' and that was a pearl that felonged to a fairy, but It had been many years ; since she had heard of the fairy or the pearL and. the old witcn had long, since forgotten It for sne thought the I pearl had been lost, ant? so the fairy I had lost her power, so she feared ' nothing. One day when Freda went to meet t her hunhand the old wltrn rrept after j Continued on page I.) . , v. before hlhi a minute before, an uly toad hopped alone the pata around the mountain. (Continued tomorrow.) ' Smm )k tiyr I THE SANDMAN STORY (Contlnuad from page 7.) her and changed her Into a tree. Then the witch aent her pet daunnter to meet the prince and give him a drink f water from an enrhanlea cup. whirh would make him blind tn the ugly looks of tha wltrh girl and make him fall In love with her. This she did. for the prince, was passing a atream of wafr and had Juxt demounted for a drtnK when ti.e witch 'girl came along and offered him her cup. Tn his eurprlae. when he acaln looked at the girl she appeared to be very beaut if nl, though he had thought 'her ugly before he dranR from the leup. ' Poor Freda had gone entirely from !hia mind, and the witch girl led him toward the caetlc, thinking he surely would have power to maita the castle remain at his bidding. But the castle remained only when no one but the prince and Fredu were near, as the prince had wished, so when the witch girl approached tha castle it faded from aignt. Tha prince atooped and picked up something on the ground as he tame up to tha place whore tne castle hsd stood, and Inetantly hp the ugly witch girl, for the thing ne picked up waa the big pearl, and no one but the line In whom It blnS baa pawas ia see It. "Begone, you ugly creature." he cried, throwing the pesrl at the wltcn girl. "May you become a toad." Instead of the witch girt that stood |