Show 44 LONG I 1 rr LIVE I 1 T tuta HE KIN ia TG by roberts RoWs MW Ij Rinehart copyright 1917 by the company ALL RIGHTS RESERVED copyright 1917 by mary roberts rinehart CHAPTER XV catl continued d 1 15 fleda ig a notification that she would visit her found the countess tum at leisure lebr and nd alone she followed th the announce e ment cut firest jenme immediately dia tely and ad it if she he had bad shown coward cowardice lea before she aft hoad Q ad ro cone ill a now she disregarded the that chair olga Los boschek cleck offered and voine tame t to a the point with a directness that me was lik like the tha k icing a 1 I have can come all she said amid simply to find end out what to do th the coun countess was as na as direct 1 I cannot tell you v what hat to do high ac ness I 1 can only tell you ht I 1 old do very verv well nell e hodwig hedwig showed a touch u ell of impatience this nas mom qu quit tiling blang and it an annoyed aed her 1 I 1 should shaul it 9 so away ay now miner with the pera person I 1 cared red she about where it r bouldi you go would T the h n world vid la wide ida highness as at wide aai to hide bids I 1 fa I 1 am afraid P bior or ma myself self said tile the countess the pill problem hem would mould not be difficult I 1 uli should fin to so to my place in the mua moun tells bains A an old who lnona leon roe me well would perform P or tile the marriage am ight after that fit they my might find me in it they he liked it would he be too late inte prest he be might light be d difficult not net to a toung ug couple ills wine come to him perhaps 1 in deamont costume they or ore glad chun to a marry or Y these fathers there them is much I 1 fancy she ehe added still with her carefully detached manner one tint th a marriage could te be ensley it mr arranged ailed but bea I 1 a lo 10 long she bad dropped her pretense of aloofness and ad was till tal lug ing the aie lend lead hedal hedwig g w biary y with the struggle ruggle et and now trembling with nervousness ba III put herself 1 in her mildr hands listening while vidle she planned agreed eagerly garly to ciery everything ti 1 in something ng nsf 0 grim c came ame into olga a I 1 03 click chek R to face a after a time by doing this thing ahing she would uld lose everything it would d bs be impossible to conceal her coun I 1 liance a a no one k knowing owing hedwig would for or a moment hung imagine A the plan hers hem or bilky a elf either lie tor far I 1 that hot mat flat ter I 1 ohp IIA alien w lose evera thing even A I 1 hail who was already lost last to her but bt and d her fare face grew set act and ad her eyes hard she ale would let those plot tom in their ell grisly a ill cat catacombs cata climbs combs do their own fit filthy I 1 by w work ilk her it hands ands would be clean of if that hat hence ellam he her mon amusement scam at that at at t thip late day she otga olga boschek Lo should bon id be so saving ing her er a own soul so it w was s arranged e to the last afi detell detail for it must aimed b lie if done A at once a hedwig hello ig a trifle terii aed ed would mould hole have postponed it a day or so but the he com countess idess was 1 only all she knew how the very TM hours counted had them cambered cumbered cumb ered indeed and ad matel watched ld the them fi flying be by with a taking sinking heart it if she goa gave dealing thought to the palace to the crown prince and his impending fate she it dismissed neal it it quick iv Is ella had bad no an affection r t j a tor for an A af munci nunciato ato and as a to the 1 b boy Y let I 1 them him r IX 1 in what can call we trust treat look k out for far him let guard be lna jr treasure sure or lose at to his bla petit the do passage go under the site kite mom not net of if her discovery avery or OP informing CHAPTER CHAPTER XVI aks sma and haw hedwig at maky had bad gone eone back to his big lodging here his bis servant was packing packing like his for far nikky A now ol of ilia his a household and must ex change his bis shabby slid fid rooms moms aror or the c cold old magnificence alf A of fit alic P 1 c if ws very cry ilo d wn hearted to th ili cievo prince pance each day tie be gale ev the ilia b act vs a a iu played binl and rude rode zi ab anouse tu ill firing bring tie it B flut if hil effite carried fi t f does bon ii to the j if I 1 loit aft or ida adheld hm iol anil ad tend A A utu M ill the annd a 14 to tn firnin abd 4 ideiil ill M 11 li H tw I 1 boiver ow always ready and ad I 1 in t touch it h bla eyes keen his body ewa even when Z it t seemed most relaxed always tense to up spring on all for nikky arnew knew the temper of the people knew it as did mathilde g bip it aft in fit flie market and even evea bet ter knew that crisis we aoa approach ing ng and that on this small boy boj to la his big charge barge hung bung that crisis so na malty II trusted in ids hii own right aro and in nothing else also the very size else of if tl the a pit palace lace lla III unused rooms it its lone ig and d mant rambling corridore corr idora its in rambling wings wine aad ad uncle pt turrets we was against its to safety I 1 since the d demonstration nat U against kart fig the il ag hour I hid been lial 1 g given up T there were no drives la IS the aven park rk the fil illness as of the king lug furnished furbish ed sufficient in t muse excuse but at the fro truth it was on that I 1 hiie h my royal al I 1 faulty af I 1 we waa bell esl eged egol by it knew not what bikky summoned to the chancellor 3 house that nunly h had A it been told the facts rod and had stood rather still and tense while mettlach Uett Mett lich recounted them our very precautions are our due dan gern said amid the chancellor and the king he etc stopped and bat I 1 t tapping ap pp g his learn fingers on an tile the a arm of if ills hla chair 1111 mand and the king sir arv almost fi it at t the be end and A day or two me hori harl with hedwig 1 in his him thoughts thought had returned to mobilize his bla army net tar far from fro the border for far the opting spi ing mon maneuvers ars and at a meeting of the kings king s council the matter ol of a mobilize tie tion in livonia was seriously consid conald eved ered rat fat erlese favored it 11 and made an gnap impassioned lilied speech with sweat but thick on an him bey I 1 face I 1 m BIB not it cowardly cowa coma idly he be finished I 1 fear nothing tor for mif m if or for far those belonging to me but the duty of th this is council Is to pre preserve the th throne tha a tor for th the abrown crown prince at any cost cast and it if we me c cannot annot trust the army 1 in what aaa an w we tt trust in led god said tile chancellor grim ry in the end nothing was done mobilization might precipitate the ell crisis and A th there was always the fear t that the SIval army 1 in parts was itself df dI stoval the eking king mean meanwhile lay dying 9 do doctor Wt idelman in coma constant tent attend attendance a mb other r pax a ficano coming and going gains tin hia spite apartments t ments were silent aings covered the corridors that no footfall disturb his quiet let hours the nursing lifters sifters attended t t ended him one by hla his bed side elde a one a alfaia on her knees knee at the piled Prin dieu lra in the small to room beyo beyond if he wanted little now ow and ad th then a a lip lp of A aster tile the cooled jules juice of fr fruit t J jn sections of stimulants 91 given van by doctor fielder li elder ei derman himell had scarred his old arms with burp purplish mucks marks and ad alfs hd were absorbed niora man and more am if slowly w y Is 18 the ban houis went ell on an he rarely slept hut but lay bay 1 inert art and ad not at unhappy annunciate annunciata Annun clata come came and was at last stricken by conscience to a play prayer a r at his bedside on one ot of her last visits that was mom she sane got up to find ida evea etes fixed on rather run can you he hear mel a to tea 11 II I I have bet been a bad dough daughter ter to ou I 1 am barry it Is 8 late na now t to tell fill Y you A flat but I 1 am sorry entry co can I 1 Z do athin any thing in otto he said with mith difficulty you want wanto to see bee him ho she ahne knew what hat lie he meant by that ile he would a ate hae ae the me boy bay remo remember ramr him bun s he be 1 had ad seen as him lut last you are an cloua to u bout about fit him Ve veti SIu anxious father she mile said eald g 1 or him I 1 I 1 he hae been hard and ad cold perhaps ib vou I 1 w will fire grant t that a I 1 have a had two rato for it ft but I 1 am go lug ing to do better 1 will ll 11 take cure bare or of III him aad ad I 1 nil III do all ail I 1 ran can to make 1 him bill h heppt PP I 1 promise perhaps Perti ups it ft w as tellof perhaps even then tw thou 9 elit af pf s tar A dy A and certain to be bungling be to make far ferdinand inand william otto happy a him lie sit faintly I 1 received ce ad R note at fr from a 1 I late lale that after afternoon it we was very brief i I 1 B nans dea I 1 elude ek 1 iaz go to th 11 foot of M lilmond hubert old id rooms for air DWIG nikky who oho fault lilt mw his young it life to had bad lie neier er thol I 1 slit of the roof of tile the pala palace baa as a necess necesser ur shelter fre from the ws weather fit it a thing of tiles tile and ad gutters fatter I vastly kiy la large rg looked gutber tb ili did d th the roof roof he said aid the note and fell to thinking inch auch n mixture far of rupture capture and despair BV only twenty three and hopeless hop elest no can know knew sa s1 or other he lie he got et through the ilia A hours um u and ad before nine I 1 tic 1 was as on all his bis lie he tied had the run no of the palace of course no one nofield him me as he made hla him way may toward the empty unite suite which a so ato recently atly had housed hammed its ita royal visit visitor I 1 hedwig in 1 R soft oft white wrap step over ever hot hei dinner tire aresi waa a at tile the zas trade ind avery A very fairy at al though tier ter heart thumped disgrace diser tulla full Is lAhn nikka had intended hadr ded of f ob obeying ang his pr promise 11 to the letter of petit putting 9 his country before love and aad love nut not of if life hla iff life failed 1 him fin instant ly tile ally ardent deal ad and ad tend teoder arena mho he el ed tile rout roof and ad I 1 took utmost 1 it fiercely 1 in hta him tinna we nil ill I lor ir r and ad twenty three se sw ee then theart till he be said aid I 1 sweet eat cat ceartin heart 1 when having her he be drew draw back a trifle for the th sheer joy jay of age cgale catching her to him it was hadwig who held out her anna acres to him I 1 I 1 could t bear it 11 elie alie said bald simply 1 I I 1 love you I 1 had haa to in me aee you again just juit once a if he had not entirely lout lost ilia him head bead b before he be lost it then he etc stopped thinking was content for a time that it her r arms were more about his neck and his arms alms about her holding her close never let me go nikky she he ehla his ard hold me fre always always I 1 I 1 said milky valiantly and absurdly like this like till athla sold said ikka who we waa ilk lahe most ir I loi era r not at particularly t 11 is i V 11 new never let me go NI nikky eky she wits whis pend original nal he H tightened his him strong areas anus beat about her then the because bec aua she he ditled dared not bar ulle ghe him time to think ibs he made her plea nice rapid girlish rather incoherent but understandable enough they would go way away together and ad be m maffed fed she into had it all planned and ad sales euine of lt it nr m ranged A ged and then them they would tilde hide here and dd d and d always be to gether she he finished trel tremulous ml w with iab anxiety bikki and 7 ills els pulses still dealing beating at he her hla him eyes eleb on her up turned despairing young tace face turned fueled to him tor far hope and ad comfort what could he do he too took her in his or anus age again alq oil soothed thed her while ell she cried led a lier her hert heart out against his tunic fuel he said mid he would do anything to keep her train from unhappiness and that he w would AUDI ilia die before at he let her go to karl a arms but bu it if he had bad stopped thinking before he was thinking held haid enough the then tonight said hadwig dwig raising a BA test tear stained face it I 1 ie early it if w we w wait it ca will happen I 1 libow it they are so dom powerful darful they ca can do anything thing he le put her away from him at last after r 1 he had bad III klasek if her bar I elds and ad her forehead which was by way may ot of lea meltion and then all he fabled folded m hib areas anus which were and might beainy him IT aft after that no not dar ing to look at her but an 1 with I his I 1 eyes hired fixed OB an the atia A alil line a ot the A roofs ile he be told her many ay things of his hia promise to tile the king of the it in ad ve get ger imminent now and very real I 1 of alb 11 word of if honor not to make Is I 1 love a il to cpr er which hah he be had broken H hedwig dw g listened growing cold one and it still ill and drawing awa away a little bhe if listened te it cen air us assented c anted a ag he be pleaded a grma against his him own heart tc eschAr or arms halu till lattice folded and if she he saw III bis orm arms and ad not bar his him A ees am etwas it was because she did not look up halfway through hisiger hit his eager nger speech however hoft ever she abu tile drew he her light fidd wrap about her and turned aap milky could not net belt believe thet that she mi imlah ilk ille that without a word but wj glnn she he had disappeared through the win d dow h he knew man cud ad f followed A I 1 her Z he f caught her to in hubs hubert ill B room and dr drew e w her saag elV luto late ill his aram me but it OB a p passive lie qa quiescent aal and ad hedweg who ohe submitted and then herself went out through the door lota into the lighta of the corridor wally 11 flung 9 himself face do down A on a shrouded much and ad ay lay iy there him face burled in his him arras I 1 boschek ek I 1 last hope wits was coms 1 ou on the day ot at the carnival which b th was tile the last day before tile the beginning of lent prince ferdinand Ferdi uund william otto earia the palace fill slept and ad only enly the atri 1 t Bwee plem pera were about he streets prince ferdl used nand william otto out bat up in bed and dawned yawned tills this was 2 special day no he knew but at arm A he a ai to too drowsy to remember then than he im knew the carnival I 1 A de lightf 1 day till ih the altce full fall of people pl 1 la image cox pea sauta lint imps jest hestera je stera who cu cut copers caper on the little graw arms in A the om P park tit little girls gifts in pro on wetering wearing costumes cot of follies with g gauze e wings students ohp paraded and b lew blew nolay horns even hed h ed decorated decanted and ad now flow and ad the then a dog reseed as a dancer or a soldier he yawned dawned seat and began to feel fed hungry he decided to get up and ad take hta his own bath there was vas nothing like getting betting a good start for a gala day and since mines with the crown prince to decide was to do wide which h 1 fb not always a roal trait he be took talk hla his own bath being very particular about his ears arm and not at all particular about the rest of him then no oskar having yet appeared with fresh garments ha be ducked b self bach lot into bed gala again quite bare me as to lit hla e ody and snuggled 2 befit down in the sheets lying there them he planned the day there them were to be no lease lessons except telling renting which could hardly be called a lesson ammu at all 11 and ad A as he be now it knew the 1 getti getta address he meant to ask permission to recite it to his grandfather jo to be quite sure sum of it lie repeated it I 1 to himself us as ha 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