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That afternoon they went to the palace grounds and inquired for the chief steward After a fewhouse just inside the gates The steas a red-faced littleHe could speak German--in fact, he was a Ger their request Mr Fraasch--Jacob Fraasch--was at first dubious, but their frank, eager faces soon gained for thereat park open to the public Beyond certain lines they were not to trespass Anguish asked how they could be expected to distinguish these lines, being unacquainted, and the steward griuard would establish the lines so plainly that it would be quite clear

He then wrote for therounds of the royal palace of Graustark, affixing his seal In giving this last to them he found occasion to say that the princess had instructed him to extend every courtesy possible to an Aht be permitted to use his camera There was an instant and emphatic refusal, and they were told that the pass would be rescinded if they did not leave the cauish deposited his luckless box in the steward's office, and they passed into the broad avenue which led towards the palace

A guard, who served also as a guide, stepped to their side before they had taken ten paces Where he came from they never knew, so instantaneous was his appearance He re the two hours spent in the wonderful park

The palace stood in the northwestern part of the grounds, possibly a half mile from the base of the mountain Its front faced the o closer than a quarter of a mile from the structure, but attained a position from which it could be seen in all its uish, who had studied churches and old structures, painted the castles on the Rhine, and was so of a connoisseur in architecture, was of the opinion that it had been standing for more than five hundred years It was a vast, mediaeval mass of stone, covered with moss and ivy, with towers, turrets and battleone days, but round This they learned afterwards Broad avenues approached in several directions, the castle standing at the far side of a wide circle or parade ground The open space before the balconies was fully three hundred yards square, and was paved Froreen with its fountains, its trees, its arbors, its flowers, its grottos and its red-legged soldiers