Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-01

the cover upon the table-cloth, and
dashed in mad haste from the room.
Wondering somewhat at this precipitate
conduct, I was about to fill my plate,
when I was arrested in the act by a
great noise of hurrying feet upon the
pavement without. People were run
ming and calling to each other, and al
together there was so much tumult that
1 said to myself, "Ah, another mob!"
Then I, too. left the parlor, and hast
ened to the street door of the inn.
There I discovered honest Strumpf
and honest Mrs. Strumpf, supported by
the entire personnel of their establish
ment, from the boots to the billiard
marker, all agape with establishment, as
three loquacious citizens poured news
into their ears.
lotto is dead" said the first citizen.
He died at sixteen minutes past six
more than an hour ago."
But that is nothing" cried the sec
ond citizen. "The great news is this.
Listen to me-"
mo. to me-" interposed third. "I
have it directly from one of the senti-
nels at the palace. The pretender, Con-
rad, has been knitted like a pig; and jolly
well he deserved it, too. 1t was be-
tween four and five o'clock this after
noon A monk, young monk, a Fran
ciscan, presented himself at the Mar
morhOf, and demanded an audience Of
the Prince. The palace guard-and it
is straight from one of them that have
the story-of course refused him ad-
mittance; but he was determined, and
so at last the Princes chamberlain gave
him a hearing. The upshot was he
wrote a word or two upon slip of pa
per, sealed it up with wax, and begged
that it might be delivered to his high
ness forthwith, swearing that it con-
tanned information of the utmost impor-
tance to his welfare. The chamberlain
conveyed his paper to the Prince, who,
directly he had read it, uttered a great
oath, and ordered that the monk be ush-
cred into his presence and that they be
left alone together. Alone accordingly
they were left. More than an hour
passed. At little after six arrived the
news of the death of the old Duke. An
officer entered the Princes chamber TO
report it him. There, if you please, he
found his highnesS stretched out dead
upon the floor, with a knife in his
heart; the monk had vanished. They
could find no trace whatever of his
whereabouts. Also had vanished the
paper he had sent in to the Prince, but
what the police regard as an important
clue, he had left another paper, twisted
around the handle of the dagger, WHEREOF
was scrawled in a disguised hand: III
the country of the blind the one-eyec
men may be kings, but Conrad only
squintedF
1.-THE grand point Of it all you hav,
omitted" put In the second citizen. Il
is this. Shut up in an inner apartment
of the Marmorhof, they have found tn
hereditary Grand Duchess Mathild,
alive and WE'LL Conrad has been keep
ing her a prisoner there these tw'
weeks"
The tidings thus delivered by thes
worthless proved to be substantially cor
rect.
aThe Duke is deadl Long live tn
Duchessi" cried the populace.
1t was like a delightful Old-fashiOne'
bIood-and- thunder opera, and I wa
almost behind the scenes But oh! tina
hypocritical young ribald monk, Sc
bastian Rochl What had become O
him9 Wonld Ae keep his promise {
look me up2 The police were said to b
prosecuting q diligent e0deaVor to loo