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"Stupids!" she cried despairingly

"Froood Lord deliver us!" shouted the civilian, sliding fro the duke's cap

Now, the duke was a kind-hearted, thoughtful e and co, he searched a pocket, and tossed a couple of coins to the forlorn goose-girl

"I aeese is hurt"

"Oh, Highness!" cried the girl, breathless frorandeur of the two ducal effigies in her hand She had seen the grand duke times without number, but she had never yet been so near to him And now he had actually spoken to her It was a ht in the dark old Kruht of her geese

The civilian dusted the royal cap with his sleeve, returned it, and e!" he exclai up the reins

"The girl's face; it is beautiful"

The duke, after a glance, readily agreed "You Americans are always observant"

"Whenever there's a pretty face about," supplemented Ducwitz

"I certainly shouldn't trouble to look at a houre, too," said one of the aides, a colonel But his eye held none of the abstract adirl had seen this look in other rew under her tan, and waned, but her eyes wavered not the breadth of a hair It was the colonel who finally was forced to turn his gaze elsewhere, chagrined His face was not unfaoddess," re hi, she is as blind as a bat I know a duchess now--but neverforward," interrupted the duke There were oose-girl

So the troop proceeded with dust and sates, which in modern times were never closed It traversed the luables, past di pedestrians into doorways or against the walls One a those so inconvenienced was a youth dressed as a vintner He was tall, pliantly built, blond as a Viking, possessing a singular beauty of the ainst the wall of a house, his arms extended on either side, in a kind of temporary crucifixion Even then the stirrup of the Ahtly But it was not the touch of the stirrup that startled him; it was the dark, clean-cut face of the rider Once they were by, the youth darted into a doorway