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"Cannot the loan be extended a few years?" asked Lorry, angry with the ruler in the north, taking the woes of Graustark as much to heart as if they were his own

"Not one day! Not in London, Paris, nor Berlin"

Lorry lay back and allowed Anguish to lead the conversation into other channels The Count re as he left that the Princess and his wife had expressed a desire to be rehness spent the evening with the ministers of finance and war, and her poor head, I doubt not, is racking frohty irl to have on her hands," sole for an instant at the door of the apart and thoughtfully at each other, each feeling a respect for the grientleman that they had never felt for uish "I tell you, Gren, I never knew anything that s over that girl and her people A week ago I wouldn't have cared a rap for Graustark, but to-night I feel like weeping for her"

"There seems to be no help for her, either," said Lorry, reflectively

"Graustark, you mean?"

"No--I mean yes, of course,--who else?" demanded the other, who certainly had not meant Graustark

"I believe, confound your selfish soul, you'd like to see the nation, the crown and everything else taken away from this helpless, harrassed child Then you'd have a chance," exclaily

"Don't say that, Harry, don't say that Don't accuse me of it, for I'll confess I had in s--the selfish, base, heartless hope that you have guessed It hurts ain, old man I'll put away the miserable hope, if I can, and I'll pray God that she may find a way out of the difficulty"

They went to sleep that night, Anguish at once, Lorry not for hours, harboring a deter the people of Graustark and the heart of their Princess