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The Princess heard the remarkable proposition with face deathly pale, heart scarcely beating Again was the duty to Graustark thrust cruelly upon her She could save the one only by sacrificing the other

"We will do all in our power to--to prove ourselves grateful for your nanimous offer," she said As she passed fro buzz of excitement on all sides, the unrestrained expressions of a co to sound her doom Which as she to turn in order to escape from herself?

"We must catch this man, Yetive," said Halfont, on the stairway "There is no alternative"

"Except our inability to do so," she murmured In that moment she determined that Grenfall Lorry should never be taken if she could prevent it He was innocent and it was Graustark's penalty to pay

The next day, amidst pomp and splendor, the Prince of Axphain started on his journey to the land of his forefathers, to the to procession that ates of the town Far up on thefrom his littlethe black, snakelike procession wind away across the plain to the northward, losing itself in the distant hills