| Show long live the king MARY ROBERTS RINEHART all AH ass lifer erld eldal mr by lif copyright oil H by y OW X ir alaa OLD ADELBERT OF THE OPERA LOSES HIS JOB AN AM EVENT WHICH STARTS A CHAIN OF circumstances synoma Synopsis The crown prince of livonia ferdinand william ott olto to years old taken to 0 the opera by life aunt tiros tims of the singing anil and lip lips say away to the pa park lit where he be makes the acquaintance ot of bobby that p a a little american boy returning to the palace at night nigh he finds everything in an uproar pr I 1 as a result of the search I 1 it which he has been made tor for him film the same bame night the chancellor mile calls to consult the bo be 0 grandfather the old king who Is 19 very III the chan chancelor nilor sag ng go rests a that to presena the kingdom the friend bip of the neighboring kiad kingdom an of karnia karla be secured bv be giving the princess in roar four time to king karl kari of that country counted count bloschok icv in fa waiting to a P princess ancess annandale hedwiga hedwigs mother Is in love with ding king karl I 1 and it plot plots to prevent his owning marriage to ho he loves nik nikky k y garvich Lari Lar vIch ich otto a md aid do de camp la Is dismayed when told ot of the plans plan for far h her 0 r marriage countess koseluk sends ends a secret message g to cwg sol karl I 1 the messenger is attacked hv be agents ot the terrorists terrorist and ad a dummy otter letter substituted captain I 1 I 1 grisch froane unaware of the he substitution it holds up p karls karl chauffeur and secures the envelope the c captain a plot impersonates s karl hall s chauffeur and exchanges the shelf sheet with within the envelope for some same cigarette pope papers on delivering the envelope to rall karl larisch 1 1 made prisoner when ohm the deception is discovered chancellor of 0 livonia el goes goal to tn barnla end nd arranges zingre with harl hall lor far his hia marriage to hedwig 1 karl 11 1 thereupon th map 0 releases release capt captain larisch CHAPTER VIII continued C a S the quay nee receded dedred red carpet and all only the liters blare of it the bond band followed the them and ad aft with b the persus persistence tence of sound over water followed them for 1 some I time it was ous hedwig nho abo showed the most it depression on the trip after all early that morning she had attended 1 hiis I 1 in the roval rinal chantl all the household bad b been li th there ev and ad the king had bad bar been wheeled lit in and ad had fiat at 1 tn his be box high in toe the wall the door done ot of which ope opened ad from his bis private suite I 1 looking kag up hedwig had all seen hla his gray old face set and rigid the court h had ac it worn black and the chapel was waa draped in crepe she had fallen on her knees items sad and had tried dutifully to pray f or the dead hubert hebert but her bar whole soul seat was waa crying out got tor for help for herself f so now she sat ant very quiet and wondered about tb things inge P prince inc I 1 ferdinand ler dinand william otto sat ant by the the rail and ad watched the green grace banks flying by ft heo hen no go an one was looking he broke a flower fr from go the bouquet and ad flung it over overboard b oard he pretended that itwara it was a boat awl and was go going in g down doon to karats filled with soldiers ready to fight be but t the fine thought of soldiers brought bikk kakky y to his mind mand his flee file clouded its very strange about he 1 ald I he Is ie away somewhere I 1 jash wish died be had sent t word it he was get going 9 hadu hedwig jg looked out over the cis river it th the e archduchess reb it art a glanced at miss Bratth site there here Is no news she ebe asked tn an old undertone tone nwe none said aid BE 13 braithwaite A no dd suspicion pirl rose in hedwy mind end and made her turn vale pale what tt if they had sent him s awai aa perhaps they th I 1 y feared him enough for that I 1 it if that were trus true she would never ever know she k knew ew the way ways of the police palice well enough for or that in a sort of terror tener she ehe glan glanced ad around it the group BO I 1 corn ed W her mother was looking out oat with her ber ens cool I 1 impassive guru gaze misa mile wal t a knitted the countess he however met ile her eye eyes and ad tc there was as something e strange adum in them triumph and it a bit of terror too had she ehe but read mad them for the coun counters count teis eha had put I 1 in her ale for far a holiday lad and bad been refused the new for fortress tres faced the high road mad some mew five miles Us f from the seem karaian bor bar der it stood on a bluff over the river and was as the crown prince decided not net so unlike the a desk after all ex ih rapt that it had a moat at round around it if hedwig and ad it the coun note teia went at with the party art around t the a th the archduchess and las isa had sought bought a tire fire only the con countess atess however seemed really interested hedweg win seemed it more intent on an the dise dis taut tant line of the border than on any thing ets else she stood on a comp rampari rt and stared out gut at it looking wry very sad L fiven ca the drill drift ahen hen at a word all 11 the th great gu gaoa rose and peeped over the edge at the valley below and ad ther than dropped talked hacked again as it if they had hac been ance wa enough sough event even this failed to rousi mum her 1 I wish you low would listen hedwog ma fjald d t the be crown almost fretfully it 8 80 th the enemy e 1 I diem would wine come up the river I 1 in brute boats and dd along that road mad on 01 foot aud and then than we would ralle raise the guna gum and shoot beat at the them and th the guns gone would old drop bade back kellu before the enemy comor had bad time to aim am at them now but ledwig I 1 interest was aw so a evidently assumed that he turned to the a 0 countess countes the coultes coun teis professed trolling mug terror and stood a little wa woj back no froni ties the buas 1 oo 00 B but prior prance ford me I 1 it william 1 otto at I 1 last ut t coaxed hu hial to the top tal ot of the emplacement out there mara a adlue a fine view up there he arged and the guna goes won t hurt you yen there ther a noth nothing g in them to got get up IP it waa 1 I to climb G an ice iron ladder Fir dirig a already the there alien about a dozen young bad 1 helped her or up and ruined ft aa any pairs of w white lit aloff 11 although 0 g usper could old climb like ilk ft eats md ad rail really y need needed d no assistance alit whatever ever lou I 1 a go up tip said the crown prince edgerly ei ri gerly turning to the come counter teSo JU ill hold held your bag so you can climb he caught her handling handbag from hber her nod and instantly something snapped in it the countess was sea climbing up the lad der rather bather dismayed prince ferdi nand V 1 eillism otto surveyed the bag something had broken he feared and 1 in another cronn erit he be saw what it was the little watch which was set in one side of it had slipped away ahle leaving a m round u ml black hole bole his heart beat a trifle faster T im m aw fully worried he called up to her as he be climbed 1 I in m afraid I 1 ve broken your year bag something clicked and the bateh 1 Is gone it inot inet is on as the groi glouid iDS it was well for the countess counters that the colo colonel el was talking to hidish well ger for her too that the other officers were neve standing behind with their eyes ve worshipfully on the princess the countess less turned gray white dt don t worry high highness she be sold w with t if BOH tiff lip the watch falls back sometimes e I 1 I 1 ran must t have it repaired tunce ze E but u t long on utter after the woe tour of the ram parts was fsr 0 er after ammunition rooms had bad born been ili ted with their long lines line of waiting shells elicits after the switchboard which controlled the river mines had bad been inspected and ex plowed bained she was baill trembling brince ferdinand william otto RO looking ot at the bag later on saw the watch in place and drew draw a long breath of relief CHAPTER IX old adalbert old adelbert of the opera had lost his is position no longer a sausage in hla his pocket packet tor for refreshment old did he be leave hla his little room mom daily tor for the opera A young own man who made ads egling ogling gu g eves at olga of the garde robe and sit who was sea not careful to keep the lenses leases dean clean ha had it take his place he we was s hut hurt in his sol soldiers soldier dies anal there them so was a no longer a plum place in the kingdom lor far those who bad fought tor joe it the cry was tor for the young and een tn in the first twenty four hours hour I 1 I a juittle change went sent on go 1 tn lit him his I 1 loyalty loi alti on which be had built his cread d of life turned to bitterness the first day of his idleness he wandered let into the back room of the cob bler biers a shop near bear by bhele the butter seller from the comer coiner the maker of f artificial flowers flower tor for graves and the cobbler himself were gathered and IN flood without protest to such talk I 1 aa would have aued him once to white whit anger but the fr iron had bad not yet gone very deep and it one I 1 thing he be would lid not per idt it R w as when wheal in the becco conversation ormiston or mitton one of the them attacked the king then indeed her he was roused t to fury once core up upon a time a student named H hill haeckel ill bad comal nally backed him up tn in his detente of the royal fatally family but for or some reason or other haeckel mine came no met more and old adalbert missed h him in he ee laid had inquired tor for I 1 him frequently where I 1 is the boy haeckel aa he had isk ask d one me day I 1 I have not sea been him lately iso one h had replied 1 e d R but u a sort a rt of finno ad atti rt I 1 brim silence n 1 e d over e the I 1 title little room old adelheart Ad elhert ellart however was not at di discerning lung but that star first day of idleness goes ahen he be had left the cobbler B s he be resolved not get to return 1 they I bay bad not at her been unfriendly but he had bad see ecca at once there was a difference lie he sea aa no GO longer old adelburt of the opera ile he was an old man only and out of a work erk he ell spent bear boora that first free afternoon arr repairing his frayed 11 linen I 1 and ad his shabby uniform with his ig stretched out got before him bim sad and his pip pipe clutched firmly in liis lais teeth then freshly fleshly shaved unit and brushed he I 1 ted on a painful match bearch after fter work walk WIZ baith no result and fied indeed eld he be was wab hopeless hope teea before he began he was old did and full infirm there that use au little that he had bad es even the be boung courage to apply for true he h had his hie burnall but it mile came only twice ft a your and ana sent out intact to take care car of 0 an dinv inv invalid ild daughter 1 in the c country try that 1 was I not hla his he be never r used led a penny penn 11 or go it and lie r had bad saved sated ft a trifle by living on air as the concierge dictated h dared but misfortunes come la in threes like firm fires and other calamities the afternoon no ot if that very day brought a w letter I 1 t e that th naught daughter wag as ria rief uh f han operation w worse and must U have 1 as aa old adelbert went I 1 to church and ad burned berried a candle for her rc ri covery overy and ana from there to the bank to send by registered mall mail the sur surgeon sirgeo geo a tee ile he was bankrupt in twenty four baor hours that evening I 1 in n his bis extremity he did a reckless thing ile he wrote a letter to the king ue ile spent hours boom over ever it flat first comp ing it in pencil and ad the then copy PY ing it with ink borrowed from fear the core concierge iorge it be began n sir sarf as he had bad learned was the torm and went on to arwa remind ad his hii nui city first of the how hos pital pilot incident which having been forty yes years ago might aught have slipped the a royal at nu kimory re 07 then the came the fact his in lost t position his daughter the handicap ot of his wood wooden leg 19 it ended with alth a plea tor for reinstatement or railing that thad for any sort ot of work k he be sent out it unfolded in a large flat it envelope aps ops which alao I 1 lie he had ban learned d was fhe the correct thing with kings who in for r some reason ma or other do not of like folded communications coin muni then Is he waited he considered that a law few hours hour should bring a return no answer came 0 o answer ever came r r the he king w was as 1 and oil secretaries carefully sifted the royal mall a that night in the concierges bu be reau man b he was treated to many incidents aled to gel all I 1 alike the b government ever took but go gave nothing nth wg A As well oil expert expect blood out ot 01 a 1 1 stone to instances avre given heartlessness heartless nesa piled tied on heartlessness one sordid story on another A and d as be listened there them died in old adelbert a soul his darning love forb for alg ain eien elga and ad hla his b belief I 1 I 1 ia the him his eves took on a hard bard and ad haunted look that night lie he walked past the palace and shook his hia fist at it 11 he us was g really greatly ashamed of oc that he however anil ad never ever repeated it but his soul we was now an open sore ore ready tor for infection of and black humbert bided hta his time on the day of the excursion to the th fortress old adelbert decided to apple appeal I 1 to his bia fellow lodger ledger herman spier now rod and then when ulie he was affluent ff luard he had paid small it t tribute lude to herin herman by means mean of the ca camp top cookery kny on a which he prided blues himself he A soldier a mess he would say my and bring in ill I a bowl of soup map or a slice lie of deer meat broiled over hot coals in his it tiny of stove love eat it man T these me restaurants know bothi nothing of food her berquin could old not at help him but he eyed the old soldier ap pp Is ugly ile he guessed shrewdly the u growing dwir uneasiness easiness behind adeebe Ad ellort t a brave front if now one could enlist ruch euch a man for the muse cause th that at u would be worth doing among the Tet veterans craus the old ji aa 1 9 1 I am seeking a student named haeckel an us waa inn influential list and ad by this new are policy loftly of fresh blood for tell stale the government ever a let had bed made ad many enemies among them the old mans we bill a had been increased by two t ns first 1 although I hi he had lied men bere dismissed I 1 malssen without notice I 1 in the middle of the week he had bad been paid only up to tn the hour bear of 1 leaving 1119 that es was a grievance news sec ber ond old being law blow on go his lit feet one of the royal motor later cars had almost ron can him down dawn and ad the police had car cursed ad him round roundly I 1 y for far being tn in the way I 1 at last he be determined to flad Hn eckel the student etu dent ile he did not net adent know hla his chrrid christian I 1 name I 1 nor or where he ha lodged edged but h he k knew a eve the ilia corps calm he belonged to by b chis hla son laell gray ftp cap with red bund be ad ile he was vry very nervous when he ad this final effort corp houses house we were curious places ie he had bad h biard rd and ad lull fall of secrets it is even the great pro from flow the university might not net enter auto without invitation and hla elpern nee bad had been that students paid small email redart sp t to a uniforms or to age 1 in truth he passed the building twice before he could summon grommon courage to touch the great brnad knocker and th arrogance gance of I 1 afta clamor when ban it at last he rapped startled faction him again but he here at 1 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