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The slirand council cha but a short time Within a very few minutes after they had been conducted to the chanitaries, the fair ruler ca lines of courtiers to the spot where sat the ure in black, proud and serious, she walked unhesitatingly to the old man's side If she feared him, if she was impressed by his power, she did not show it The little dranitude, neither of whoed supreaunt face black and unfriendly She extended her hand graciously, and he, a prince for all his wrath, touched his trerief and sadness to your Court, reater than I can bear," he said, hoarsely

"Would that I could give you consolation," she said, sitting in the chair reserved for her use at council gatherings "Alas! it grievesmore than words"

"You are the one he would havebeside her He looked into her deep blue eyes and tears sprung to his own His voice failed hi moments passed before he could control his emotion Truly she pitied him in his bereavement

Then followed a forement of details in connection with the removal of the dead Prince from Graustark to his own land These matters settled, Bolaroz said that he had heard of themade to re-capture hi humiliation over the fact that her officers had been unable to accoitive could get away froe The old Prince orking hie that had been temporarily subdued; and at last broke out in a vicious denunciation of the carelessness that had allowed the loss and his incompetent assistants be thrown into prison for life or executed for criuish as an aider and abettor in the flight of the murderer In both cases the Princess firmly refused to take the action deloss and his men, and announced in no uncertain tones that she would not order the arrest of the re American Then she acquainted hie and to have his every action watched in the hope that a clue to the whereabouts of the fugitive , of course, that the friend knew anything at all about the matter The Duke of Mizrox and others loudly joined in the cry for Anguish's arrest, but she bravely held out against them and in the end curtly informed them that the American, whom she believed to be innocent of all conity other than detention in the city under guard, as she had ordered