The age-herald., 1897-08-15


 By your bounty. nhaoamo, I nave money, and he who has money can get knowledge. So know that the prince is there. For e50 gained servant of his, and he told me. !"
 "I do not know why you should spy on the prinee;" said Osra, land I do not care to know where the prince is. ]" and she touched her horse with the spur. and he eantered fast forward, leaving the little house behind. But Christian persisted, partly in a foolish grudge against any man who should win what was above his reach, partly in an honest anger that she, whom he worshiped, should be treated lightly by another, and he forced her to hear what he had learned from the gossip of the princess groom, telling it to her in hints and half spoken sentences, yet so plain ly that she could not miss the drift of it. She rode the faster toward Strelsau, at first answering nothing, but at last she turned upon him flercely, saying that he told lie, and that she knew it was a lie, since she knew where the prince was and what business had taken him away, and she commanded Chris tian to be silent and to speak neither to her nor to any one else of his false sus- picions, and she bade him very harshly to fall back and ride behind her again, which he did, sullen, yet satisfied, for he knew that his arrow had gone home. On she rode, with her cheeks aflame and her heart beating, until she came to Strelsau, and having arrived at the pal ace ran to her own bedroom and flung herself on the bed.
 Here for an hour she lay; then, it be- ing about 6 o'clock, she sat up, pushing her disordered hair back from her hot, aching brow, for an agony of humilia- tion came upon her and fury of re- sentiment against the prince, whose coldness seemed now to need no moro explanation. Yet she could hardly be- lieve what she had been told of him, for though she had not loved him she had accorded to him her full trust. Ris- ing, she paced in pain about the room. She could not rest, and she cried out in longing that her. brother were there to aid her and find out the truth for her. But he was away, and she had none to whom she could turn. So she strove to master her anger and endure her sus- pense till the next day, but they were too strong for her, and she cried: ''I will go myself I cannot sleep till know. But cannot go alone. Who will go with mel" And she knew of none. for she would not take Christian with Io eI, ol1i r,f the matter to any of the gentlemen of the court And yet she must know. But at last she sprang up from the chair in- to which she had sunk despondently, exolaiming:
 ''He is a gentleman and my friend. He will go with me. And she sent hastily for the bishop of Modenstein, who was then in Strelsau, bidding him come dressed for riding and with sword and the best horse in his stables. And the bishop came equipped as she bade him and in very great wonder. But when she told him what She want ed and what Christian had made known to her he grew grave, saying that they must wait and consult the king when he returned
 ''I will not wait an hour," she cried "I cannot wait an hour ]"
 ''Then will ride and bring you word. You must not go," he urged.
 Nay, if I go alone will go, said she s'Yes, will go, and myself fling his falseness in his teeth.
 Finding her thus resolved, the bishop knew that ho could not turn her, so,