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Show i ac v Handsome as a picture! Ha! the ideal at Iasi, ironically. Blond, of course. Dark as a Spaniard, and rides like Diana." Iiis enthusiasm was not to be lightly passed over. "Never heard of Diana riding," said I; always saw her pictured as going afoot. Dont be an ass! You know very well what I mean. no argument to offer, nor any picture to prove my case. Youve had an adventure; give it up. every bit of it. One of the finest horsewomen I ever saw. Took a wall three feet high the other morning, just to see if I dared follow. Lucky Dandy is a huntin to breakfast. There were no formal- er, or Id have broken my neck. ities in the princess apartments. Then of a sudVery interesting. Her highness guilt- den a thought flashed through my Beautifully! ily wondered if there was any logical head and out again. Ant body with way to keep Betty in the house for the her?" next few mornings. She sat down and Only myself these three mornings." The duke talked to sipped her tea. Hm! Did you get as far as names? me last night. Steinbock played douYes; I told her mine. Who is ble. Hildegarde von Heideloff?' What! Heideloff ? I was puzzled. My susYes. He sold us to the duke, who picions evaporated. I cant say that patiently waited for me to speak. I know any one by that name. Sure it Betty, I am a fool. But I shall never was Heideloff? Do you mean to tell me," with marry Doppelkinn. That is settled. I suppose he will be Inviting me to blank astonishment, that there is a return to England, said Betty petticoat on horseback in this duchy shrewdly. that you do not know? Not for the present. I dont know any woman by the And I have just grown to love the name of Hildegarde von Heideloff; on Mr. Warring- my word of honor, Maf, I dont. place, pathetically. Old Bauer, the blacksmith, ton has asked me to ride with him His ankle prevents him afternoons. Ie SYNOPSIS. Arthur Warrington, American consul to Barschcit. tells how reigning Grand Duke attempts to force his neice. Princess Ilildcgarde, to marry Prince Dopple-kinan old widower. Warrington does not know the even by sight. While horseback princess riding in the country night overt ikes him and he seeks accommodations in a dilapidated castle. Here he finds two women and an old man servant. One woman is Princess Hilde-ardand the other a friend. Hon. Betty loore, of England. They detain him to witness a mock marriage between the and a disgraced army officer, teinbock, done for t lie purpose of foiling the grand duke. Steinbock to ktss the princess and she is attempts rescued by Warrington. Steinbock disappears for good. Max Scliarfenstein, an old American friend of Warringtons readies Warrington tells him of tne princess. Scliarfenstein shows a locket with a picture of a Warrington woman inside. It was n las nc. k w hen lie, as a boy, was p'cked up and adopted by Ids foster father, whose name lie was given. He believes it to be a of his mother. The grand dukepicture announces to the princess that she is to marry Dopple-kintlie following week. During a morning ride she plans to escape. She meets Scliarfenstein. CHAPTER VI. Continued. Oh, I am cur'oii3 to know. Bauer will tell it to every one in Barseheit that you overpay Tor things, and from now on you will have to figure living on a basis of crown.'. It is worth any price to hear a pretty woman laugh. What V fine beginning for a day! May misfortune be kind enough to bring you this way again, Herr! Bauer cried joyfully, not to say ambiguously. Listen to that! laughed the girl, her eyes shining like the water in the sun. But he means only to thank with a seNow, your generosity. vere frown, how much do I owe you? Take care; Ive only a few pieces of silver in my purse. Why, Fraulein, you owe me nothing; I am even in debt to you for this Which proved that very crown. Bauer had had his lesson in courtier-ship- . n, rim-es- Bar-sehei- t. n The assistant soon brought forth the girls restive filly. Max sprang to her aid. How light her foot was in his palm! (She could easily have mounted alone, such was her skill; but theres the woman of it.) I am going toward the Pass. she said, reading the appeal in liis blue eyes. "Which way is that? he asked, swinging into his own saddle. That way, nodding toward the south. After all, there could be no harm! in two or three hours their paths would separate for ever. I am going Why, delightedly, that way myself. Old Bauer watched them till they disappeared around a turn in the road. He returned to his forge, shaking his head as if confronted by a problem too abstruse even for his German mind. Well, hes an American, so I will not waste any pity on him. Tlte pity . Is that she must wed old It would have been if she had! So the princess and Prince Charming rode into the country, and they talked about a thousand and one things. Had she ever been to France? Yes. To England? She had received part of her education there. Did she know the Princess Hildegarde? Slightly. What was she like? She was a madcap, irresponsible, but very much abused. Did she know Mr. Warrington, the American consul? She had een him on his morning rides. Wasnt it a fine world? It was, indeed. she cried suddenly, Follow me! even daringly. A stone wall, three feet high, ran along at their right. The foreground was hard and firm. Pressing the reins on the fillys withers, she made straight for the wall, cleared it, and drew up on the other side. Now, Max hadnt the least idea that the horse under him was a hunter, so I might very well say that he took his life in his hands as he followed her. But Dandy knew his business. He took the wall without effort. A warm glow went over Max when he found that he hadnt broken his neck. Together they galloped down the field and came back for the ret lrn jump. This, too, was made Maxs admiration knew no easily. bounds. It was a dangerous pastime In more ways than one. At eight oclock they turned toward home, talking about another thousand and one things. It has been a delightful ride. suggested Max, with an eye to the future. 1 take this road nearly every morning, said she, looking out upon the water, which was ruffling itself and quarreling along the sandy shores. Max said nothing, but he at once made up his mind that he would take the same road provided he could in any reasonable manner get rid of me. Did you enjoy the ride? asked the Honorable Betty, as her highness came IPm! Youve made quite a study. must be visiting some one nearby. There is an old castle three miles west of the smithy. Did she speak She English ? Yes." excitedly. "That accounts for it. An old Fug lish nobleman lives over there during ibe summer months, and it is not ini probable that she is one of liis guests. in my heart 1 knew that her highness was up to some of her tricks again, hut there was no need of her shattering good old Maxs heart. Yet I felt bound to say: Why not look into the purse? There might be something there to prove her Identity. Look into her purse?" horrified. You wouldn't have me peeping into a womans purse, would you? Suppose there should he a box of rouge? Her cheeks were red. Quite likely. ' i Or a powder-puff.more "Even j likely. Or Go on. Or a love letter. I have my doubts, said I. Well, if you do not know who she is. I'll find out, undismayed. Doubtless he would; he was a persistent old beggar, was Max. "Do not let it get serious; my boy, I warned. You could not marry any one in this country. Why not? Have you been regularly baptized? Was your father? Was your grandfather? Unless you can answer these simplest of questions and prove them, you could not get a license; and no priest or preacher would dare marry you without a license. Hang you, who's talking about getting married? All I want to know is, who is Hildegarde von Heideloff, and haw am I to return her purse? I shall ask the blacksmith Do so," taking up my egg spoon. Max slipped the purse into his breastpocket and sat down. " v-- TO IE :. TEA Churches a.id Sihoo's Are tte Only Army and Navy We Need, Says Senator Knute Nelson. Chicago. The churches and the schools of the United States were held up as the only army and navy that can protect us in the future, by Knute Nelson of Minnesota on Friday night. He delivered an address at the rally that marked the close of the the Luther eighth- convention of League of America at the Auditorium. Fully 3,000 persons were pres- ent. Severed by two vast oceans from the other great powers of the world, he said, "with our hundred millions cf people and our almost limitless resources, we have no occasion to fear any attack or invasion from abroad. The enemy that will attack us, and the danger that will threaten us, against which we must constantly come from Le on our guard, will within; will come when we are untrue and unfaithful to our groat trust and duty; will come when we cease o pass good laws and when we cease to enforce the laws without fear or favor against the rich and poor, the high and the low; will come when we grant immunity to transgressors and law violators; will come when we allow the mammon of pelf and unrighteousness to rule and dominate; come when we stifle or permit to be stifled the conscience ot the masses of the nation. Against this enemy and this danger the only standing army and the only navy that can protect us and guide us in the future, as in the past, (TO BE CONTINUED.) are our schools and our churches. These, rather than brute force, will Power of Imagination. he our solace, our hope, and our salImagination has a great deal to vation. do with some cases of sickness, said SCIENCES TOLL OF DEATH. a doctor in St. Joseph's hospital, Record. the in Philadelphia quoted Killed and Six Injured in BalThere was a woman who used to Two loon Accident. come here regularly complaining that London. Two persons were killed she had swallowed a pin and that it was stuck in her throat, hurting her and six injured by tire explosion at exdreadfully. Week after week we as- the grounds of the Franeo-Britisn sured her that we could find no pin, hibition of the envelope of the but still she came. At last we deterowned by Captain Lovelace of mined to satisfy her, so we told her (he New- - York Aero club. Preparato open her mouth wide and shut her tions for an ascent were being made The eyes. Then we placed a pin between when the accident occurred. a pair of long forceps and ran it down cause is supposed to have been the her throat. After fooling around a throwing down of a lighted match. while we drew it out and declared Miss Hill, aged 18, secretary to CapLovelace, was one of the perthat wre had at last succeeded In ex- tain sons killed. She was burned to a tracting the troublesome pin. She got cinder. The other person killed, a up. declared that she felt better and man, and the six who sustained inwent away. I saw' her later, and she juries also were employed by Captain declared that the pain in her throat Lvoelace. had entirely disappeared." ' Killed Woman Wh6tiWt; The Almighty Dollar. Him Two Dollars. Rule of the A recent headline, St. Louis. Thomas DeWItt, 24 has suggested the inquiry, years old, In an alleged confession Dollar, Who originated the familiar phase, made to the told how he killed It was Wash- his former police, the almighty dollar? Mrs. Adeline landlady, ington Irving, in The Creole Village, 49 years, at her home. Muller, aged The which he published in 1837. 1 did not mean to kill her. Is alleged to have told the pophrase became so popular and excited so much controversy in consequence lice. I stuffed a stocking in her of a doubt whether the adjective were mouth because she was trying to irreverent, that its author had to ex- scream. I was afraid that I would arrested for disturbing the peace plain 18 years later that he intended he The cause ot no irreverence, even to tle dollar, if she made a noise. which he is well aware Is becoming lire struggle resulting in Mrs. MuBauer? All my suspicions returned. daily more and more an object of ller's death wras her refusal to loan Dollar is certainly one of DeWItt $2. Describe the girl to me. worship. Handsome figure, masses of black the world's greatest words now, and it Revives Story of Massacre. hair, great black eyes that are full of is difficult to realize that it only means The skeleton of Jean Winnipeg. good fun, a delicate nose, and I might valleyer, the thaler having been De La Verandyre and Father Baptiste Bonamed after the Joachimsthal, in add, a very kissable mouth. What! have you kissed her? I ex- hemia, in whose valley it was first Aulneau, a Jesuit missionary, and the of nineteen French voyagers, claimed. coined in the sixteenth century. Lon- skulls were killed by Sioux Inof all whom no! to. like don Chronicle. No, Only, Id dians on the Island in the northwest angle of the lake woods in 173(5, were RSQCCCCOSOSOSOSOSOQOSCC090!9300000CiOQeCOOOGOOCOSOOGOSO discovered last week by a party of priests of St. Boniface college, of by Winnipeg, accompanied Judge Prudhomme. The St. Bonitace party also found the site of Fort St. Charles, built in 1732 by the great explorer, An Industrious calculator has esti- izers flourishes as never before. Sieur De La Verandyre. mated that $10,000,000 were spent last Everybodys Magazine. for of America the winter by people Want Prohibition in Texas. Millions We Burn or Gamble. the enjoyment of serious music San we Antonio, Texas. The Demo, In of all our3 this in as it is known huge country music, that is to say, our concert halls and opera houses; build about $500,000,000 worth of new cratic prohibition plank is as follows: We demand submission to the peonot the music of the comic opera buildings a year; our fire losses, inof and fire by the thirty-firs- t cost ple legislature of a house. vaudeville cluding and the departments stage Two sum. constitutional amendment prohibiting The figure Is more likely an underr insurance, exceeds that estimate than an exaggeration. Few hundred millions of dollars are actu- within the state of Texas the manusocial phenomena of recent years in ally burned up, gone Into smoke; fire facture, sale, gift or exchange of any this country have been more remark- departments, high water pressure and interstate shipment of any spirituous, inous or malt liquors or medical bitable than the enormous increase in all that sort of thing mean nearly the popular demand for music of the $300,000,000 more; we annually pay ters capable of producing intoxicabetter class. Ten years ago the works out $195,000,000 to the gentlemen who tion, except for medical and sacra, of Wagner, of Beethoven, of Schubert, condescend to gamble with us on the mental purposes; that amendment shall be in 1909, and that a vote for of Schumann, of Tschaikowsky were question of fire in insurance piemi-umor against It shall not be considered relegated, In the average mind, to the The sum of these amounts, writes a test of Democracy. vague and unattainable limbo of W. F. Fitzpatrick, in the Metropolitan one catches classical music; Braved Death to Save Babe. ones carpenter whistling the Sieg- Magizine, is our fire cost, and we get and trouble considerable after des back, Der Fulton, Mo. With a mothers disfried motive from Ring from some about $95,000,000 of danger when her babe was dressthe little litigation, and regard Niebelungen, maker from the suburbs discourses in- the insurance companies as a alfigit in peril, and at the risk of her life, Mrs. J. B. Stephenson, a frail little telligently upon the revolutionary art salve for our fire injuries! woman who lives ten miles southwest of Richard Strauss. Keep Hustling. The publishers will tell you of the of Fulton, on Friday lowered herself Do not waste your life in doubts and opdemand for and into a increasing well, saved her large ear-oleratic guide hooks, for biographies of fears; spend yourself on the work bechild from drowning and that the right climbed to the great composers, for introductions of fore you, wellof assured holding the Infant this hours duties will in her teeth top, performance of that supall kinds to the secrets its dress. The babe by be for hours the the best preparation was playing near the top of the well posedly mysterious art the art of and stepped off backward, falling into music; and the great tribe of popular- - or ages that follow it. Emerson. ' four feet of water at the bottom. w-- h bal-iro- half-veile- d De-Wi- Red-nose- from taking the long morning jaunts. If it will not interfere with your plans, dear Accept, by all means, Interrupted her highness. He is a capital horseman. She smiled mysteriously. Happily her companion was absorbed in thought and did not see this smile. Max came in at a quarter of ten, went to tub, and came dowm in time for the eggs. Have a good ride? I asked. He Beautiful country! Bully! enthusiastic. How these healthy animals eat! was I ihought as I observed him occasionally. Wish I could go with you, I said, but Ill get the lay of the land quick enough, he replied. The rascal! Not a word about the girl that morning, or the next, or until Thursday morning. If only I had known! But Fate knows her business better than I do, and she was handling the affair. But long rides of- a morning with a pretty girl are not safe for any bachelor. Thursday morning he came in late. He dropped something on the table. On inspection I found It to be a womans handkerchief purse. Where the deuce did you get that? I asked, mighty curious. By George! but Ive been enjoying the most enchanting adventure; such as you read out of a book. Im inclined to believe that I shall enjoy my studies in old Barseheit. If But where did you get this? there was a girl around, I wanted to know all about it. She dropped it. She dropped it! I repeated. What have you she? Why, you old been flirting at this hour of the half-heartedl- - tow-hea- tt Spent Millions for Music. v s. to-da- 100-fo- d 2- -j |