Show LONG LIVE TH THE E KING Roberts bv S mary annehart copyright 1917 by the ridgway company ALL RIGHTS BIGHTS RESERVED copyright 1017 1117 by mary roberta robert Rune rinehart bart HEDWIG AND THE CROWN PRINCE WAIT IN VAIN FOR THE RETURN OF NIKKY lynap Synopsis ts The crown prince or of Li livonia vanda ferdinand william otto ten fre years old taken to the opera by his aunt file miffs of fit the singing nud ad slips away to the park whom where tie he makes the acquaintance of bobby thorpe time P 1 little american A boy bay returning to 1 flin palace palo at night he 1 finds everything in an uproar as a result of the search larch which has haa been bee made tor for him the same night the th calix 11 1 calls III to in consult till the boy boys a sir grandfather the old king 11 who h Is in very cry ill th the chancellor sag BIS goats that a to preserve the kingdom Ling than which is threatened by plots plot of the terrorists to form a 0 republic reab lic the friendship hip of the kingdom or of kanto br be secured bv be giving tile the princess elang in mar or roure to king karl kari of that country counte ef L aluk lady in waiting to princena princesa Prin ill cesa annunciata Annun clata mother 1 as 1 an fn to loe with timit king hurt harl and ad plots to prevent his marrace to in Fl hedwig edolf hodwig hedwig who ho loies nikky larisch otto 8 aid its de comp camp Is when told of the plans for her marriage mar elage counters Count els sends bends a secret covillon covil non to ring kart karl the T he inease in r seger neep is athiel oil ed by agents agent of arthe the terrorists terr lits and ad a dummy letter 1 tree substituted captain lansch unaware of the subs sub titu staff ton holds up karl 8 chauffeur and res the envelope CHAPTER VI 5 two arb prisoners herman spier laid had made comb his escape with the letter H he a ran through tor top troas t S of the S old att under onder arches into court yards vardi out cot again hv bv doorways set let in the wells walls twisted doubled ilk like a rabbit and 1 ali I this with no pursuit save sale the pricking one of I 1 or but at lait hit he halted belted looked about P perceived erce ted t that hat only his own guilty conic conscience leace accused him and took bee breath th he made hla his a ay to the souse house in she the shadow of tg it park until on an ettar biow buttoned inside lit bis coat cast and finding uffing fl the doors closed ceofred lurked i in ill the shadow of if the park palk until on an hour am later at block humbert himself up ap i he eved end his creature vath w ath told cold an ger it is a m marvel rel he be lau sneered sered that such light flight as yours has not brought the pollee police in a pack at your heels beel 1 I 1 I had the letter herman replied bulkly I 1 it was vias necessary to save san it 1 you were to see where fiburg took the substitute but here herman was the one to saver fiburg Ni burg he be bald all yon yen know ninive well wait enough that that I 1 he be will III tale role no an bub fitl tute to tonight right or ry any night you strike hard bard my friend the cde c concierge de g a growled and together they entered the house across the street in the absence of humbert his niece daughter of a milk seller near kept t the lie bureau on answered the bell and after nine blue a 0 clock when the doore doom were be bolted led ad admitted the various occupants occupant i of the hall house as and gave them the tiny tapers with which to light themselves q she was BUS sewing and singing 7 when they entered all right girl you ton may go said aid E humbert load good n night ight to you both the girl old eald and ad gu gave herman spier a nod wh when she he was gone the concierge birgs door okd clothed the door behind be her and howo now he said for far a look at the treasure he rubbed robbed hla his hands bands together AS herman lin produced the letter heads close they examined examine it it under the leall lamp the then they glanced at each ill other A cipher said the concierge shortly y it tells nothing beit code cod and struck the paper with in b balry ry hit fist EN seething goes wrong belr y I 1 A cipher said the C concierge 1 19 short ly it tella tell nothings nothing th that t blood blond do deml Imer interferes felm and now new ehte letter speaks but ot of blankets blanket and ad loaves the bell rung cong nod it telling care or to ill thrum rost the I 1 letter after out at of eight lit the n con ei clerge large disappeared I 1 he I 1 it 1 in the hall ball a short colloquy followed by in a on m the the ton exa cHr curs le turned larned old 1 d ade adelbert t beer from the opera he be aid id 11 he han haa tom lost his position and ad would box hae spent t the night airing his get ge grievance but at I 1 sent t him off novi nov as q between the two B mck humbert furnished evil and strength but it was the hillid clork clerk who furnished til idled the cunning and now hs be made a suA geNtIon it is ir possible lileo he be said eaid that ithac h he upstairs could help Ad adelbert effort are all you road ad tile the in he knows india codo it will ins means of one we caught lit him I 1 have heard that flat all 81 these thele things have one basis and a simple one th the conc emic leige real 11 d then them be rose it is w worth trying tiring he observed he thrust the letter into his pocket nod ad the tiro ties neat cut out at lot into the gloomy hall ball the there on a ledge lay bits tapers and one he lighted shielding hield ing it from the draft it in ini the tile hollow holing j ll 11 of his great hand then the he it led the ay y lo 10 1 the top lot of the house here he were three rooms one oae a the best was herman H aman stare spiers a poor pace es thing at the that t mit to it was we old adel bert facts s at the end of the carrow carraw corridor in a passage almost blocked by old furniture was vas another room a sort gret of attic with a slanting roof of milling sure eure that old Adel adelbert bort did not at near hear the them they w eat cut b back 1 to this boor door which the concierge unlocked inside the room was dark the tap taper or showed little A aa their IY eyes be became accustomed to the darkness the outlines of the attic stood revealed a junk room plied piled whit with old trunks franks and in one are writer corner a bed black humbert taper arr I 1 in hand approached p preached pro the bed herman remained near the door now with the candle near the bed revealed a man lying abar revealed on it and t tied led w with knotted ropes rapes a young man a with sunken cheeks and H meary eary desperate ees ei es beside hini bint on an a chat chair I 1 were the fragments of a bof meat a bit of broken broke bread cone old cold soup on stitch idah grease had formed a arm coating bg ly lying big there sleeping and waking making and ad sleeping again young haeckel one time of his bia majesty a secret ic ice aana and student in the university had bad lost last track of the days day HO he knew not at how long he be had bad been a prisoner ex capt that it had bad been eternities twice i a day morning and evening came his jailor and linic loosened illif his bonds blind b brought abt food of a sort nod and allowed him not out of worry mercy but below because it was tile the tom committee it tee a pleasure that tor for a time he should live to move about b a ut the room min and bring blood again to his bis numbed limbs th the converge concierge untied him and stood back itch now conw he be bald lit but the by boy he be was vas no more lay till still he made one me effort to rise and fell back up with youl yen in said bald the concierge and oo 00 jerked him to his feet I 1 st he 11 caught 1 the be t rail mil of the bed or rale he would nave have fallen now eland stal it like a man he food then facing his capture captors without del defiance lie he lad bad worn a oil all that out in the first days of at his hip P rt well be said old at last of 1 I thought yon ml ve been bee lure here once to tonight I 1 kill climice fil right fin my bucl cuckoo but timi tonight glit I 1 do you double honor 13 but t seeing that haeckel was swaying he turned to lie heiniman timm spier go down d be fhaid it and ad bring up some b brandy to ad lie ile can do nothing tor far us in till alila into ila he thank the brandy casaly girl when I 1 it came 0 and d 01 the 1 I 1 concierge berge poured him S a second d quantity be with BU u weak elk na nes and slow starvation it did what sad no threat at of liar personal I 1 danger would it haie done it broke down dow his resist t liace aade I 1 not mot immediately lie ile fought hard when t the he matter was first felt broached to him but in the end he be took k the th letter fair and ad holding bidding it close class to il did the e e candle u he be examined it closely his hands hand shook his hia eyes burned llie too to terrorists watched him brandy orno or no brandy how however one lie had ad not I 1 lost at its hla wits he glanced up ap vad dilly tell me something about aboul ill toils I 1 S he laid lit and what I 1 1 I 1 you do for far me a it if I 1 decode decade it the concierge goold promise mis huff tiling thing and did Hi neckel listened knew the offer of liberty ne is but there was sea something about the story ot of the 4 letter it itself that be bore the hall bat marn of truth you see air find finished black humbert cunningly she abe this lady 0 f the court is ia waiting plotting with sam bome a one 0 or so BO cot we inspect if IE it Is in a only a liaison indian el he proud pread hil hands bonds if as la is poa use babe lit she sh be avs us as to karnia that w we e all should old find out it Is not he a added d d ed among our plans that karate should know too much ill of us th the brandy was still working rag but the spy says mind w was as clear he asked S ked for a pencil end and set to work after all it if there was as aan a spy of karls karla in the ilyko palo palace it were well to know it he tried campil complicated till methods method fast to had that the body of the letter after all was wait simple enough by reading ending every tenth word he got a consistent me message cave that certain cerium supplies lee a over er which the concierge had railed tied were apil code do words it for certain a at antt menti these he could not decipher elpher le whoever was to decease this he be said at last would u it have been in imar oa ill il of com complete p to it to ita of the 4 1 he crumpled up in a heap army equipment and it all 11 and oil the ion location of various regiments probably ou u and your band of murderers have that t already ir dv th the concierge nodded no a whit ruffled rufth ff ed and for whom no was I 1 it t I 1 intended it 11 I 1 e cannot t say bay th the add address la 1 Is fictitious of course black humbert scon led id so be said you tell a us and only a part there them is nothing ilia ele to tell save sale as I 1 haie britten it here th ane a writer red ends 1 I roust at see you at a once 0 ce let at me know where when the brandy was getting 1 in it its work voll veil by that time lie he we was feeling strong his own man again and reck less but he as was cunning too he a yawned dawned and in return for all this I 1 what he demanded 1 I have it doue lou on a service friend cut cutthroat afi st i the concierge stuffed 1 letter and it its translation Ilat lou into lit his 6 pack pocket I 1 what at would you have short of liberty air tor for one thing ile he stood up end and stretched again god it how strong ile he feltl felt I 1 it if you would open that accursed window for an hourn hour the place reeks im humbert was wait 1 in n high good hurace humor 1 in spite of his V protests rat esta in his pocket he held the key to favor aye to a pum plan which he be meant seat to lay before the committee in t lee of too ten a plan breath taking in its audacity and yet potential of all success he went ent to the window and ad put pat lill hii great shoulder agal against rot it instantly Hae Havel cliel ool overturned the candle and picking up tile chair hurled burled it at herman sp spier ter he be beard based the clerks clerk cler kg go do down Us as be limped leaped tor far the door herman I 1 had not at picked locked it he was in the parige before thin the I 1 concierge had tumbled stumbled past the bed next mae haeckel eckel ran as he had never run ran before bedfor I 1 th the last ast flight now new with the buichl concierge ge well I 1 behind and ad liberty two seconds away ile he flung himself against the doors doom to the street but they were fat fastened I 1 toned by a chain and the ley key was not in the talk lock lie he crumpled up in a heap Us as the concierge fill on him with fist fists like flails dulls some time later old adelburt Adel bort heard a sound in the corridor and ad balled p ered somal out humbert assisted by the induce spier axis carrying to the attic what appeared to he be so au old mattheas mul matt tress leas roald up and ad covered w ath login in the surri morning lm outside tilde the door there will was a darkish stain however which might have been blood at nine the next morning the chancellor visited the crown prince no hf mine came without ceremony late lately he liked had bad be been catalog tift often Us ho lilied to come in quietly an and it alt it tor for an hour in the se school h ool room baying a ying nothing driml feidinand Feidl nand william otto found the these occasion re rather trying 1 I should think he be pendell protested I 1 once to hla his governess that he would 1 it be have something else to do ile he a the chancellor ellhof 1 isn t b he r clum the a ling had a d a d a lad bad night alt and was still missing the chancellor a he heart it was heavy the chancellor watched the crow crown prince as he be sat at the high desk dean laboriously writing it was the hear of english composition and prince prime ferdinand william otto was writing theme atheme about dogs he explained of ive ve seen a great many you yon know I 1 could do it better with a a pencil my pen sticks in the paper ile he rote on and mettlach Mett lich sat fiat and v vat batched arched ched he be caught miss braith u site aites a glance and he knew what waa in her mind for nine years now had bad come once a year the painful aunt annl tasty of the death ot of the late crown prince and his young wife for nine years had bad the city mourned with flags at halt half mast and the bronze statue laws of the old did queen drop draped e d in bin blacki c k and tor for nine yeara year hid the dy day ot of grief 1 passed unnoticed by the lad on whom hung bung the destinies of if the kingdom now new they confronted it a new sit elt nation tile the next day dav but one was the anniversary again the boy was older and observant vinit it would not be pon poa ethic elble to conceal fr from him the of the procession process IoD march ing through the streets with muffled drums they could not at continue d to 11 lie to the boy truthfulness had been one of the rules as ot of his rigorous ing and he was now BOW of as an age to il re member so the chancellor sat and waited and ad suffered fingered his heavy watch chat chain prince ferdinand william otto put his attention to the theme and finished it then flu flushed bed with authorship lie he looked up my may I 1 read YOU van the last tire line ot of itt it he be demanded ot of the chancellor I 1 shall hall be honored battered h highness I 1 not net often did the chancellor say highness bonso conso generally he said aid otto ott or my child prince ferdinand william otto read aloud with dancing eyes his last line itne i 1 I should like to own a 0 it doe a I 1 I 1 I 1 thought he said wistfully that I 1 might ask my grand fattu I 1 for far one I 1 see no reason why iou on should not have I a dog dog the chancellor obed ob ed not one to be kept at the stables et otto one to stay with me m all ail the time one to sleep on the foot of 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