The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-10
THE CAPTURE OF
THE BEAUTIFUL
PRINCESS

at the picture The artist, whose name was I'm
pecunio, italian, and he spoke in that Ian
guage to the Prince. asking him how he liked the
painting. When the Prince replied in the same
tongue for he knew, of course, many languages the
artist was delighted and asked him to share his
supper This the Prince was very willing to do,
being nearly starved.
Over bottle of thin wine and some cold meat
they grew merry, and while the Prince did not d.
vulge his rank he told Impecunio his NAME which.
forgot to say, was Richard, and admitted that he
also was an artist. Impecunio handed him his
brushes and asked him to finish the picture, and
delighted at the opportunity Richard attacked the
canvas so eagerly that before the had gone down
it was finished, and done beautifully that In
pecunio hailed him as a master and proposed that
they paint together hereafter Nothing 10th, the
Prince agreed, and went to the artists hut IN the
forest to spend the night.
Impecunio provided him with a suit of clothes,
and together they went forth next day to paint
pictures to be sold IN Gardenia, for the people of
that kingdom we're so passiOnately fond of pictures
especially those of flowers plants and trees, that
every house had hundreds of them on its walls
They talked much about art and then lmpecunlo
said suddenly:
sHave YOU heard that the Princess to whom
Prince Richard is to be married is expected to
rive to-day or tomorrow? All, the lucky PrinceP
PLANNED TO CAPTURE HER
GLOW lucky, indeed" replied Richard. Gle has
TO wed stranger whom he has never set eyes uponi
How does he know that she is not ugly spit
freq
"They say" said Impecunio, chat she is very
beautiful. An artist whom l met In Vermiia told
me that she was like rose in sold vase"
mo one IN Gardenia has ever seen her picture,
responded the Prince, 'Eand If she IS beautiful
why has not some one painted her portrait?"
perhaps" replied ImpecuniO, "no artist In her
land is able to paint such beauty"
"Fiddlesticks" cried the Prince. you could
paint an angel if you were allowed to see one. [
fear me she Is so homely frecked and full of blem-
ishes that she breads to let her portrait precede
her. would that could catch one glimpse of her
before the fatal dayP
Hal hap laughed the artist "You speak as
gloomily might the Prince himself. Thank
Heaven, no one has power to marry either of US TO
an unknown bridew
aWell, it is a comfort" sighed the Prince, 'that
she will not arrive until the end of the week"
"Why, how know you that" cried the artist.
"We heard that It was tomorrow"
'She will start from her kingdom of Mirroria
this day., answered Richard, "and 1t will take her
until Saturday, If not longer, to get here, as the
roads, they say, are bad"
"Hun" muttered the artist. eff that's the case,
the plan might be arranged IN time"
''What plan you mumbling aboutg' asked the
Prince.
"a desperate scheme" answered Impecunio 5'and
desperate men have planned it."
''But what Is 1t 2" cried the Prince.
"One of our artists, a Greek named Athenio
PorkochopoIis conceived the notion OF capturing
the Princess as she passed here and carrying her
to lonely castle in the forest where we could paint
portraits of her which would readily sell for large
sums In Gardenia, for you know the people and
the very court itself are dying to know what she
looks like"
'Why, that's a splendid ideal" cried Richard.
"And why was 1t not carried outg"
I'VE feared that there not time to prepare
for it."
"But now there is time enough cried Richard
LET Us hasten and prepare everything"
'Will you join us 2" asked the artist
certainly. It VIII be great fun"
There viii be danger toO" said Impecunio
~and perhaps death, also, for some of u.s. She iii
be guarded b5 a troop of cavalry, ara told"
who cares, cried the Prince. "The more dam