The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12

S000u, only sat 4tll tn aGf 6e0. WAltlnk to sec what would happen. At lasa she could not bear tAe sosnes of the dancing, and laughing. and playing and singing any longer. So she jumped up, and, rolling out of the golden sheets around her, looked out of the windo~. TheSe they all were, the crowds ct gay people, just as they had been the day before when she was among them, whir,ing. dancing, laughing, singing. The tears came into Liute SweetheAri's eyes as she gaIsd What could it mean lh at she sas deserted in thiS ~aY. not even her clothes lef tc- herr She was as m lch prisonsv in her room as if the door had been locked
 As hour aAeE hour passed. new mis- cry began to oppress her. She vas hun gry, seriously, distressingly hungry. She had been too happy to ca, the day before rhough she had rpped and tasted many deloions beverages aud viandS which the prince had pressed uoon her, she lad no, tIten any substantial food, and now she began to feel faint for the want ot t. As noon drew near, the time at which she was accustomed in her fathers house to eat dinner, the bangs st her hunger grew unbearable.
 ." can't bear 1t another minute" she said to herself. "l must and will have something to eat. will slip down by some back way to the kitchen. There must be kitchen, l suppose"
 So saying she opened one ot the doors and ,imldly peeIed into the next room. tt chauced to be the room with the great cases full of fine gowns and laces. where she had been dressed by the obse. auious attendants on the previous day No one was in the pom. Clan -ing tear fully n all directions she rolled the Kol- den silk sheet tightly around her, and 6e~, rather than ran, across the floor and took hold of the handle of one ot the glass doors. Alas, It ~as locked. She tried another; all were locked. lu de- spAir she turned to fY back to her bed room, when she suddenly spied on the door, in the corner close by the case where hung her beautiful white satin dress, A iitllc heap ot what looked like brown rags She daFted toward 1t, sna,ched it from the floor, aud in secsnd moro was safe back in her room, It was her own old s'utf gown.
 "What lucki" sal 1 the Little Sweet heart nobody will ever kno~ mo in this. I'll put 1t on and creep down the back stairs, and beg a mouthful oi food from some of the servapts, and they Il never know who am then I'll go back to bed and stay there until the prince comes to fetch me or course he will come before long and If he comes and in ds mo gone ho ,e he will be frightened halt to death, aud think 1 have been car. ried of by robbers
 Poor foolish I.,ttle Sweetheart It did not take her many second: to slip into the ragged old stufi gown then she crept out, keeping close to the walls, so that she could hide behind the furniture if any one saw her.
 She listened cautiously at each door before she opened it, and turned away from some where she heard sounds Of merry talking aud laughing. In the third room that She entered she saw a sight that arrested her instan ly and m ade her cry out in astonish ncnt a girl, who looked 30 much like her th at she might have been her own sister, and, what was stranger, wore brown stuff gown ex. actly like her ewn, was hus.ly a, work in this room killing spiders. As the Little 5 veetheaTt appeared in the doorway this . girl looked up and said "Oh. ho l There you are, are you1 l thought you d be out before loog." And then she laughed unpleasan,ly.
 ] Who are you f'' said the Little Sweet heart, beginning 10 trcmble all over
 "On, m a prince sSeet heart" said the girl, laughing still more unpleasantly i; and, leaning on her broom, she stared s, the Little S~eesheart from top to toe
 !" Bu,--" began the Little Sweetheart tOh wA'fa all rtinrmas interrupted several voices coming all at once from different corners of the big room and before the Little $ Sweetheart could ge, out another word she found herself surrounded by half dozen or brooms and all laughing unpieasantly as they looked at her
 | Wha,l' she gasped, as she gaxed a, tbe'r stuff gowns and their brooms You were all of you princes sweetheArts7 Is It only for one day, thenS
 Oaly for one day" they all replied.
 "And always after that do you have to kill spiders z" she cried.
 Yes; that or nothing" they said You see is Is great deal oi work to keep all the rooms ln this court clean"
 isn't i, very dull work to kill spidersI' said the Little 5 seetheart.
 "Yes, very" they sa,d. all speaking at once But it better than sitting still, doing nothing"
 "Dontthe princes ever speak to you ?" sobbed the Littie Sweetheart
 "Yss, sOmetimes," they answered.
 Just then the Little S~eethears own prince came hurTying by, all armoT from head to foot, splendid shining arnor tha, ciipked as he walked.
 "Oa, there he is r cried the Little Sweetheart sprnging forward; then sud denly she recollected her s.uG go ~u, and shrank back into the group. But the prince had seen her.
 "Oh, hos d'do!" he said kindly. vas wondering what had become of you Good byei I'm of for the graad review to Gay. Don't tire yourself out over the