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"I thought you had forgotten otten you!" she cried, quick to resent the i while forgetting I have sent to the Regengetz for your luggage and your friend's You will find it much more co as you are in Edelweiss That is how I have been forgetting"

"Forgive"I have been so lonely that I ihness, you must not expect us to re--"

"I will not allow you to say it!" she objected, decisively "You are the guest of honor in Graustark Have you not preserved its ruler? Was it an imposition to risk your life to save one in whoh she were a poor princess? No, , for had you not come within its doors to-day would have found it in uish has said he will stay a year if we insist"

"That's like Harry," laughed Lorry "But I a two rattlebrained chaps who should be in a hoht have blighted Our rashness was only surpassed by our phenoood luck By chance it turned out well; there were ten thousand chances of ignouests of honor? No! We would have been stoned from Graustark You don't kno thin the thread was that held your fate It ht have been Ah, had I but known you were the Princess, no chances should have been taken," he said, fervently

"And a rohed

"So you are a princess,--a real princess," he went on, as if he had not heard her "I knew it So told me you were not an ordinary woman"

"Oh, but I am a very ordinary woman," she remonstrated "You do not kno easy it is to be a princess and a mere woman at the same time I have a heart, a head I breathe and eat and drink and sleep and love Is it not that ith other women?"

"You breathe and eat and drink and sleep and love in a different world, though, your Highness"

"Ach! my little maid, Therese, sleeps as soundly, eats as heartily and loves as warument"