The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-19

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stone bench. and put up her two hands
upon his shoulders. The great blue
eyes searched him-as before. through
and through S. 4
Never mind the. other men, karl
said she. There 3 no other man that.
counts. Upon my faith. there isn't. I'm
married to you and shall be true to you
always. Only-give me time, time to-
know you better, to.s care for You as u
ought before come to Noyodnia with
You. You may see me, like TINS,
every day will, won you!
Flirt with m l>arl. make love to me-
make me carr for YOU, III think I've
care so much as you could All, If only
[ could tell You how glad am that you're
what You are. big and strong and-ten-
der-the sort Of man a girl loves. I've
been. hideously worried and Ill and all
that because you didn't come to sf me
sooner. IL thought they were keeping
you from me- Oh. I'd all sorts of dread
full suspicious you're here now. and
I'm to see YOU every day, am not? You
shall see how soon I'LL be well and strong,
once more. Please don't look so solemn
and sad over it, Smile at me again, Karl,
you We. the 4kindest, dearest smile ever
saw. It makes, one so comfortable. It
! makes one see. how tender and true you
are and how utterly one may, trust you."'
Mallory shrank away from the two
| clinging hands and the great blue eyes.
| His. face was crimson. 5< nj So
| "Ah, you make me- feel a brute, Flea
nor. hedcried miserably. "a black
guard. . ssfs III
But the girl laughed. ,ss %..4 ss,ag
| You a brute?'s said she, you a black
guard. Karl? Don't be silly-why ! Of
| course I. know that a man isn't--isn' t
quite like a girl, YOU know. He has
rougher life to live He has to see things
and to- know about things that girl never
hears, of. but--a blackguard?r You haven't
a blackguards smile, my prince, nor a
hlackguard's eyes. No. think can trust
you. The only witness against the pris-
oner is prejudice by a most uncommon
modesty.-Not guilty. sir. That's the
verdict The jury didn't have even to
leave its box
She leaned back against the black,
smoth trunk of a chestnut that stood be-
| hind the stone bench and rested her head
there, face upward to the warm sunshine
that came flooding through the new leaves
and interlaced branches above, bathed her
in a golden glory splashed with shadows
Mallory turned his eyes away. s
:. Haven't you anything to say to me at
all' complained the princess after a time
Eth, what-Oh, yes. yes" said Mallory
pulling himself together with jerk. He
ventured another glance at the npturneo
face in it's food Of mellow sunlight and
looked quickly away again.
| Tive so much to say he declared
that 1 don't know where to begin anG
what to, tell you first. I want to tell yor
a greal deal about you, what you look like
and all that, you know; but mustn't Yor
said must: begin gently-1ll tell you that
-morrow-or next week maybe. = n
"You-you might forget by that time
yentured the princess wistfuly. "Couldn't
you-begin it-now-very. very gently
you know. Not that it matters, Of
course" she protested. with some haste
Il dare say I look very much like othe'
women-don't I?'' 2st ~ = .i.s11
,"No you DON'T said young Mallory
you know quite we'll that you don't
You're the-you're the most gor-no, N
hanged if I'll tell-not to- day-besides, ::
coundn't if I should try H. 5, nc .,.su
oh very WE'LL said the princess loft
lily, .if you want to be disagreeable 'abou
it, you may. Tell me why you didn'
come to me sooner: I thought-Oh :
thought all sorts of mad things The,
kept putting me off from day to day, DR.
Mac, Sir Gavin Mackenzie and thu
others. couldn't fancy what was the
NATTER ~, .=%G.'f~s ~ .@- 1920.
Mallory took long breath of relief
This was safer. ;r.i ~-r-r' IT.
"Why you see.'' said he,. 1.-The country
has been in a shocking state lately anc
I couldn't leave it. My accession brought
up a row of old standing, and I'd a. hare
time keeping the throne under me. It's
all the fault of those beasts Of Pavelo'
witches. sThey'res ain "a way pretenders
toa the throne. you know and they're
, Pan Slavists, which means that they're
ready to lick the czar's boots II he crooks
his finger. What we want in Novodnis
, is independence, no Russian patronage
nor Austrian either. We've always beef
and always must be independent like Rou
mania. or like Bulgaria was before the!
: slaughtered old Stambolof. That's tn,
, policy of our house and that's what Nv,
) been struggling to maintain. It's no cas-!
matter.
: "Now that !. he continued inwardly
that is what I call a very: excellent an,
patriotic little speech-for a chap who
never been nearer Novodnia than Bel
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