Show long live the kin j by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART b ly hie air v an all rights Besa 4 copyright lot 1 mus bwy fiarris much HEDWIG IS OFFERED AS A SACRIFICE TO SAVE THE TOTTERING KINGDOM OF LIVONIA synopsis sn the cown crotan prince of at alowa ferdinand william otto otta tere ten years old taken filks to the opera per by his him mini tit mims ire of the singing and ad blips aay me little to the path parl where he makes makei the acquaintance ot of bobby thorpe a little A american boy bay returning to th abr palace at night ho he finds ever everything y thing in an uproar as am a result of ill the adalah which has b been me made for in him tile the town earne night the chancellor calls to consult the buy boys grandfather the old king aho vho ill is I 1 very III the chancellor suggests that 1 to preserve the lim kingdom dion ili the fadia III of the igl bg kingdom of berala be secured by giving the princess hedwig in war mar rings to king karl kari of that country Co countess LoI hoschek Lo uck lady 1 in waiting rolling to fo princess annunciata www outs E edwig dwig mother Is in love with king arul and plots I 1 to prevent his marriage to hedwig hurttle who hiams lunich ottos otta aid do d comp is dis dismayed maled when rhou told of the plans for far her marriage countess koselak sends a secret norm message sage to rl ising 0 g harl the messenger is attacked b bv agents of the terrorist and ad a dummy letter substituted captain leonetti unaware ot of the he Bubs titu tion lien holds up karl karls a chauffeur chiu neur and secures the envelope th the captain joan impersonates creven t as nalls kari s el modou and ad bg sm the illein the envelope tor for some same cigarette papers ou on delivering the envelope to karl kari larisch is made prisoner boner when the deception is discovered CHAPTER VII C Continued th tile was torti terrified fird she had known that there thile was disaffection about aboul she knew know that in the lost last few y years cars P precautions crossed has at the palace had been I 1 increased sentries were men IQ ho the sat an forms ot if backers lac kers but doing no DO labor were m everywhere but with time and ad safety sue be had bad felt se e cure of cour course seso the king reen resumed cold 1 things thing are am not at as I 1 bad me as that pop paper indicates idlest it I 1 is the voice of the few rather thao than the many still tt it la is a voice A metal looked more them than her age now con she ahe id glanced oil or around it the ne room we r 1 will go myself as ill though ugh a ready already I 1 she heard beard the moo mob at the he damits to return to the matter of bcd aliga ila marriage viage said the king 1 I Mar marrinee nagel 1 VI hen our very lives me are ri threatened I 1 it be greatly initiated honored eald old the king hag it I 1 might be permitted to ind finish ell what I 1 we was buying I 1 id asahe had the ferace race to in fl flush 1 under the circumstances the he him king if res resumed u and htow ig a marriage takes k a on an grist e att 11 l yeat po do lifherd al a par for i half lour hour the then he talked to her at more than tor for lear he ato un b himself ue lie had tried his ministers minister tied bad tried led taxes larval had been lightened the representation of the people increased icat until as be said he be as only nominal nominally I 1 a 1 ruler I but tita content no remained willed some same nho he had hure to america and retained mith timings J enough to bet act themselves eeles up in bout nom bess had bad to bron brought g lit back mith them the arco american annunciata listened to the end she fe felt it no pity tor for those who mho would mould bet ter themselves liy by dis destt tt and ad it ite product ad t revolt rall she tilt for only reseat ment meet that her by peace m wag as being th at ened lier ler do position thal and I 1 la her she included the king hihi I 1 lie he should I 1 it have base it done better A and ad muni tw 9 aji of tills ibis she bh dill did not hesitate to bay my kornea la in quiet enough h she finished a final bout barnla its is better oil off A lowland most of it and fertile be t a spot put of color ill shot td it a jim ila old cheeks I 1 am glad you polls of isernia maw whatever plans we make hande must be considered why berala does not consider Us ile he raised hla him head hand you are a 1 ial doing us barrels wn wong g 1 just now the it honor r ot if asking king an alliance vf utta A matrimonial alliance Il hases tee me i we was hardly mals aur primed tirl sed 1 as 11 one 11 may y believe but she we aa not at minded to yield too the rally easily abr rb old W ament against her bar fabber flamed indifferent mark knotner or though she was a she ehe made capital of a fear for happiness at I 1 last it ili she succeeded in linta the king king a more difficult thing now than in carlt earlier tunce but not so mal held haid a matter matte at that ile he listened quietly until she tad bad finished and then sent tit hot her imma when li hil she had got part eav to ta tho the floor door however he called he hep r III bach k A and it since a king Is 18 ft a king I 1 een if lie he Is one s father and very old she be owin came just juht one word ward more be tit in his lit s thin old id high bred voice much aniah of ad tour our him ras of your own oun making arli g you TO and ad you only holy know how much but nothing that you have slid can on hung change the situation tation fl I 1 am merely toy compelled to make the decision alone and ad soon I 1 hes haie not at much time ho 60 after all was ual the matter of the bachels Duc liess hennigs marriage an doged a composite compo bite out outgrowth grouth of expediency and obstinacy of defiance and eager anger and eo v as it hastened irritation gave the king ing strength that afternoon were summoned 1 lo 10 haste the members of his him council fut fat old young youn Mir Khall with mith the r rat at fee face eastern austere byerl bayerl with the white RI un 1 nand and burning eves and ad oth ill era com and to co them all toe the idaa the dis closed its his royal will there was some d demur 11 or B nut but after all the kings king a will mas as dominant fileie could but vote voice his protest and relapse into greasy grassy silence the chancellor sat hat silent during the conclave silent but normal intent on 0 each speaker he turned hi his eyes eye and ad waited until ill at last kart karl 8 proposal with its promises do imers va laid before the fabein in 1 full fail then and only then the chancellor rose me flis speech was short he herald hotd them the of what they all 11 linew knew their own we insecurity ally ile he spoke pa hut bat a word of it the or cron p prince but that softly and he drew tor for them a picture of the in future cal thit gilt 8 set it their hearts to glowing wl a a throne secure a granter klar kingdom dial freedom ft from in the costs of war a bar bor bar by the sea men the battle which was no battle at ail 11 a was woo H he had bad to aoa the th e conn I 1 try limit had won the cron prince had bad won only H bad lost A and 11 it only Id mattli ti know knew just how she ehe had bell lat ithe the necessity for rork flork brought the king the strength to do it mettlach Mett lich remained with him boxes were b brought it from vaults suite unlocked and examined air secretaries ce and ad vent meet at an ale eight 0 11 a it a 0 frugal dinner 11 was spread ercill Pr cIll 1 in the study and they ate it almost 10 t literally over ever rate documents 0 on and ad on until midnight or abo there beats then they stopped the thing was I 1 arranged nothing 1 bag I aft sow rover but bat t to carry the word to JI two T a thing a were necessary haste I 1 ahe he mint having determined it would lose no time and dignity the grand daughter of the king must be offered with jib corom moni mi no io ordinary kins kina messenger tin till a but some ill of the hurt court to this emergency mettlach Mett lich rose like the doughty old boner bad and statesman that he was it you are willing sire he said lit as he be rose rine I 1 I 1 will go 91 myself when hea jil since nee it must be done the sooner mar the better loit lelit ire alre to the capi capital tair ot so ar harl is bunting 11 ee 1 Is at NN ft edelin Us he neut almost mediately and ad the t hig ad his bia valets lots and ad was vilis got get to bed pat but long after the automobile containing and ad t two se a cret nitrate agents was u as a the roid mail ton t ird ibe de tho wull he be I 1 tossed oil on an his him nar or row bed to what hot strolls fruit bad ad chiy c come 1 I indeed he etc closed him bis ca cis wearily something had gone out of his life if he e did dd not realize at first viat it ma was s 1 ahen he be did he be smiled his him old lon grim smile la in the darline ea he 11 had lost a toe fee more than anything it ing perhaps he had bad dean dearly loved a foe to CHAPTER vill VIII 0 on th the M mountain R road oad I 1 the low gray car which earned the file 1 chancellor was on its way through nth the mountains it it d deliberately tor for two reasons first the chancellor was ns ired afraid of 11 motors ter ile he had bad a hor horseman a s hatred a ad unit and flat fear of machines eleand he was mas not of a mind to rouse ring king kar r from A night a sleep even to bring the he hand it ot of the princess hodwig his intention was mas to put pill up at hoine biorn I 1 inn in a village not far from the lodge fudge and to reach hart hall by moss early in the morning before the hunters left tor for I 1 the be e day then the all being prepared duly and in order mettlach Mett lich himself would arrive and things bould go forward with dignity and dispatch the of the at ar deepened the cliff rose above abose them a wall unit broken here and there re by the efful of nor nar radnel row raw cut ravines a fit filed kd with mith f ft forest t uses tiros there them we waa a polish pause in while the chains on I 1 the rwjr e r wheels were to supplemented by others in front for at the there must be no dinger danger of a bull and another pause where here the road slanted martial peril ovsay toward the brink of the cham and ad etuale caution dictated tnt the chancellor slight alight and make ft a hundred feet or 1 io of rang dangerous to curve afoot it required diplomacy to get him out cut but it was nos finally done and ills his heavy figurs figure draped 1 in its mill military bury cape went set on ahead outlined by the lamps ot at ill the m car or bobtail him ho he was well rell round around the curve and ad soken the file cliff nor wa br brokel by a wedge modge of timber when a curiously shaped object projected itself over the edge ot of the bink bank and rolling roiling down lay almost at his feet the lamps brought it into sharp relief a men man gagged and tied nod and r rolled ebar shaped in an auto mob mobile il e robe tile the chancellor turned and called to his him meu on tile then he bent over the bun die th the 0 bothem ran up and cut the bons bonds NN what hat with cold and ad long in action and his recent chop over the bank back the man could not net speak one of the secret seblee men had a flask and ad held it to hs his lips A an amazing situation indeed increased by the d discovery that under order the robe he be wore only his with a sol got diets tun tunic I 1 wrapped around his about thi dors door they Y carried him lot into the cir car where here lie he lay with rith head lolling back rod and his him swollen tongue protruding halt half dead he be was man with cold and long anxiety the brandy cleared his mind long before he be could steak an and it it he a saw by the uniforms I 1 that hat he was in the hands of the earrol 11 he turned turmoil sulkily silent then convinced that he tied biad escaped one death but to meet on an other tr twenty mety four hours now lie he had faced eternity and ad he be was ready ile be preferred however to die fully clothed and when in response to his pointing painting up the bank and to his bis in articulate one ate of the secret police examined the bit of woodland alth fill ins as rocket flesh flash he be found a pair of trousers where milky had left them neatly mt folded and hung over the brunch branch ot of a tree thab Thel ready irandy being dal supplemented by hot coffee from a patent but bot tie the man revived further made an effort and sat up his file tongue was still swollen nut but they made out what bat he sold said he had been there them since the night might before H he we was of retain karma unit and a king kegs 9 messenger eager 11 1 1 I 1 was coming back from the bill bar rier he be said thich thickly ly where I 1 had carried dispatches to the officer in charge on my return a man balled we from the moe aide ot of the rund load near car where ou all found me I 1 thought that lie desired to be taken on and stopped my car hot but he attacked mi me ile hr was armed sit had and I 1 me was not at he ee me I 1 senseless tied and oil when I 1 Riville sud I 1 me was I 1 f C they carried him into the car above the roid road among amax I 1 gave myself up when the fenew conow need rew few P pass a tillin this way but I 1 heard your car timing omine and ad made ad a desperate of et fort then asked one of the agata these theme are not your clothes th they my are his sir air the agent go at P produced aused a flash cash light ight and it inspected the genocide garments before the chancellors eye button by button strap un as the also elecie ter star on the cuff cliff come into view the uniform a ot f a 4 vs 01 tain of his own regiment the grena diers then one of his own men had done tills this infamous tiling thing one I 1 of his own inn officers indeed go through the pockets packets he be ordered sternly caine into view under the flash a par p ir of gloves a box of watch matches a sills sit handkerchief a card come case th the goal agent said nothing hut but p cd a card 1 I t to a the ih claim chancellor later who rad d it without on corn ment there alices we ana silence 1 in the to car at last the chancellor chamomile stirred this now inan he be took yo your r var cap on lea im and he be has not at returned no i other machine he has passed the ile secret service anen dinha exchanged glances there me was more to this than appeared bacou somewhere licia head ahead thap was vas N diky larisch lanett with a motor ter that did dot at alg to him and ad wearing clothing which inell 1 laiq bohm as a chaulle ur a coat ot of It athir breeches unit and polleen puttees put pol tees lees and a tur fur greatcoat over all 11 had end the snow enow commenced when be this happened not net then the sir air shortly after go out at w atlo 1 th the driver the chancellor ordered one of his men and ad w watch atch the road for the trucks tracks of uther car go y thi do ter so it was waa that after an hour or so they picked up kibby s in trail now bow twenty tour hours honra old but till still clear suit ond fol followed lovoll it the chancellor 1 was I awake enough hy by tills this time and bend ing fo forward foard ard IN when lien at last the trail turned tamed from the toward ow 1 1 it 1 in 1 the shooting bo box z at W wedding sliding mettlach Mett lich 1 1 h tell fell back w with it it a 0 oneff illig between a calese and a g gibao R the fool be muttered the young fool I 1 it a as bo madness adners at last they drew up at an inn in the village a on the tidal roal pr presena c merie esene an and it the chancellor looking rather glay alighted lie be directed that the man they had rescued be brought in the ch mckellor was not at for far losing him just vet let lie he took a room for him nt at the inn and rather cavalierly locked him in it the chancellor hot but milk and ad it it larisch a pit r 1 ia kari balls s bands caused him less anulty lety bit than it would old has a month h before but what was behind it nil all at a I 1 little atle before it five ve 1 a 0 me man out side the prisoners door |