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The girl stared blindly at the wall "Yes, father"

"It is all irl trembled under his touch

"I shall not ride with hi her shoulder

"I have been a princess such a little while"

He kissed the wheaten-colored hair "Be a brave heart, and I shall engage to find a king for you"

"I don't want any playthings, father," with the old light touch; and then she looked hi more to create coive me two years more of freedom"

The duke readily assented, and shortly returned to his own suite, rather pleased that there had been no scene; not that he had expected any

Now that she was alone, she slipped into the chair, beat a light tattoo with her riding-whip against her teeth, and looked fixedly at the wall again, as if to gaze beyond it, into the di and that the days in Dresden, for all their penury, were far pleasanter than these

Meantime the chief of police called his subaltern and placed in his hands the peculiar descriptions The word vintner caused hiive vent to an ejaculation of surprise

"He was in here last night I have had him followed all day He lives over the As was found the uniform of a colonel in the Prussian Uhlans"

"Ha! Arrest him to-morrow, or the day after at the latest But the ame Do not arrest the vintner till you have him Where one is the other is likely to be But on the moment of arrest you must have a squad of soldiers at your back"

"Soldiers?" doubtfully

"Express orders of his highness"

"It shall be done"

Considerable activity was manifest in the police bureau the rest of that day

To return to Carnations Up to this hour he had never resigned anything he had set his heart upon So it was not an easy matter for hi the post at Dreiberg True, he added that he desired to be transferred to a seaport town, France or Italy preferred The high altitude in Dreiberg had affected his heart However, in case there was no other available post, they would kindly appoint his successor at once Care was concerned, and it needed a fine quality of e to write this letter and enclose it in the diploht It took courage indeed to face thedesire to linger on and on, indefinitely That she was not going to endheit did not alter his affairs in the least It was all hopeless, absurd, and io