The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-10-01

''If were Ludwig and not Chris
ian, yet would be here where Chris
;ian is and not there, where Ludwig is, {"
and he pointed still at the house.
She faced round ON him in anger at
his daring to speak to her of the prince,
but he was a bold fellow and would not
be silenced now that he had begun to
speak. He knew also that she would
bear much from him. So he leaned over
toward her, saying:
''By your bounty, madame. l have
money, and he who has money can get
knowledge. So l know that the prince
is there. For $50 gained servant Of
his, and he told me. 3"
81 do not know why you should spy
on the prince, said Osra, land l do
not care to know where the prince is"
and she touched her horse with the
spur. and he cantered 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
princes 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 fiercely, 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 babe 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 af1ame 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-
ton came upon her and fury of re-
sentiment against the prince, whose
seemed now to need no more
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 i'll 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: 81
will go myself l cannot sleep till 1
know. But cannot 90 alone. Who will
20 with me?' And she knew Of none,
Tor she would not take Christian with
her, and she shrank from speaking OF
he matter to any CT the gentlemen Of
he court And yet she must know. But
1t last she sprang up from the chair in
70 which she had sunk despondently,
''He is a gentleman and my friend
he will go with me" And she sent
hastily for the bishop of Modenstein,
who was then i'll Srelsau, bidding him
come dressed for riding and with a
word and the best horse in his stables
And the bishop came equipped as she
Jade him and in very great wonder
But when she told him what she want
ID and what Christian had made known
o her he grew grave saying that they
must wait and consult the king when
lie returned.
81 will not wait an hour" she cried.
Il cannot wait an hour. -
''Then 1 will ride and bring you
vord. You must not 60, he urged.
NAY, if 1 go alone l will go, :" said
he. Eyes, will go, and myself fling
lis falseness in his teeth"
Finding her thus resolved, the bishop
new that he could not turn her, so,