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The park was probably a h wall, on the top of which were little guard-houses and several masked cannon In all their travels the Ahtful bit of artifice, and they wandered about with a serene content that would have appealed to anyone but their voiceless guide He led the them to form their own conclusions, draw their own inferences and make their own calculations His only acts were to salute the guards who passed and to present are of forbidden territory When they had couide rapidly led the way to the wall that encircled the grounds, reaching it at a point not far froate, through which they did not pass Instead, they ascended soh wall The top of this as several feet wide, and walking was con The object was to walk along this wall until they reached the ate Why this peculiar course was to be taken they could not iuish's fertile brain came to the rescue He saw a nurounds, and, re theainst custoaze upon members of the royal household The uished from the far-aall, were undoubtedly a part of the castle's fahtseers Perhaps Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Graustark, was auish securing his camera, after which they thanked the steward and turned to fee the guide But he had disappeared as if the ground had sed hiuish, as they walked down the street, glancing back at the frowning wall

"It all goes to make me wonder why in the name of heaven we have never heard of this land of Graustark," said Lorry, still thinking of the castle's grandeur

"My boy, there are lots of things we don't know We're too busy Don't you remember that but one-half the world kno the other half lives? I'll wager there are not twenty-five people in the United States who know there is such a country as Graustark"

"I don't believe that a single soul over there has heard of the place," vouchsafed Lorry, very truthfully