The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-23

that I should have to clasp her to me.
| |, therefore, tore myself away, mounted
the box, and we We're off.
1t was wonderful how well / adapted
| myself to the vehicle. 1t obeyed my
slightest will. The hand upon the dial
in front of me- besides the voltage, indi-
Gated the rate of speed at which the
coupe was running; provision being
made for a velocity as high as 20 miles
an hour. Twice or thrice l made a
squirt and went at full speed. What a
! revelation it would have been to the
son of Nimshi
When We arrived in the Theatiner
strasse we We're again confronted with
that everlasting procession of the royal
guards. 1t was now six o'clock, and
they must have made the circuit eight
or nine times.
l now noticed that great many out
| siders had joined themselves to the
troops and We're marching with them.
I The air was continually rent with
shouts of "Hoch der Koenig!" His
| majesty foreVer!" and Down with the
| deputies!" 1T is wonderful what three
! thousand marks will do" thought I.
| AS we came around by the bank, to
| get into the street of the Hof garten, we
| found the crowd 50 dense that it was
utterly impossible to force a passage.
| ON this account we We're constrained to
remain perfectly immovable for the bet
| ter part of an hour Finally there was
a movement of the populace toward the
| square of Macmillan Joseph. For a
| moment there was an opening in the
crowd before us, and we quickly took
! advantage of Nit, and in two or three
| minutes found ourselves in the rear of
the palce, at the small private entrance.
which We had previously used. 1t was
now almost seven o'clock in the evening
and the darkness was beginning to set
tie down. We found Gottfried johann
mes waiting for us upon the steps.
"YOur majesty is wanted Immediately
at the telephone!" he cried.
Take me to it," said |.
He led me through a long, dimly-
lighted corridor and into a small office
| took down the receiver and applied it
| to my ear.
"Hello" said I.
"Hello your majesty" same back in
a shrll female voice.
"Who is talking?" said I.
"He has gone off with her, your
| majesty" shrieked the voice.
| w ~ mas SOIe Oil With NHOlH, anu
| what is it to me?" | shouted.
1T was half an hour ago, and I have
been trying to call up your majesty
ever since"
| well, who are you, and what do you
| want me to do about it?"
Can your majesty not save her?"
Save her." l shouted back, in des-
peration. Save whom?"
| 'MV nippn act
Did | not say he had run off with
| her?"
1t daWned upon me that ] was talk
ing with Frau Reinhold, and that she
was conveying to me the information
that my angelic protege had been, in
some manner abducted by the villain
Gus Won Rubenstein. l was so over
powered by the Intelligence that l eX-
pressed myself comewhat emphatical-
ly.
"Oh! oh! your majesty How can
your majesty talk so horribly?"
Il will be with you in less than a
quarter of an hour" said l.
With that | put up the receiver and
fastened out | found Secretary Null
Ter smoking pipe upon the box of the
coupe. | took my place beside him,
and Immediately put the vehicle in mo-
tion. | chose the back streets, and
| avoiding the more crowded thorough
fares, arrived at the dwelling of Frau
Reinholdt in less time than / had
promised her. on the way, | told Null
Ter what had happened. He did not
show the least surprise, but entered in
to my plans, cody and as a matter of
course. He was truly a singular in
| diVdual.
We found Frau Reinhold in great dis
tress of mind. She informed us that
about three-fourths of an hour after
we had left them, her niece and she
had stepped from the house, with the
intention of visiting an apothecary's s
shop in the neghborhood AS they
passed a closely covered barouche
which was drawn up at the curb, the
door of it suddenly opened, Gen. Won
Rabenstein darted out upon the walk
threw some sort of a blanket over the
head and shoulders of Valeska, and
sprang, with the struggling girl in his