Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-05

me off from day to day, DR.. Mac, 81,
| Gavin Mackenzie and the others. l couldn't
| fancy what was the matter
| Mallory took a long breath of relief. Thi:
| was safer.
why, YOU see." said he 1.-The country
| has been in a shocking state lately, and
| couldn't leave it. My accession brought VI
! row of old standing, and I'd a hard time
| keeping the old throne under me. It's al
! the fault of those beasts of Pavelovitches
They're. in way, pretenders to the
! throne, you know. and they're Pan-Slavists
| which means that they're ready to lick the
cars boots if he crooks his finger. What
1 we want in Novodnia is independence, nc
| Russian patronage nor Austrian, either
We've always been and always must bt
| independent, like Roumania, or like Bull
| garfa was before they slaughtered ole
| Stambolof. That's the policy Of our house
| maintain It's no easy matter.
Now, that" he continued inwardly
that is what I call a very excellent an6
| patriotic little speech--for a chap who's
never been nearer Novodnia than Bel
grade"
But the princess seemed not greatly i'm
pressed or even interested.
ooh, yes" she admitted, "all that sounds
very political and desperate and shivery
but still don't see why you couldn't have
| left your friends to do that for you. Now
| If I'd recently married girl, and she was
| terribly i'll, in danger Of her life, indeed,
! u a
while and go to her. OF course, I don't
know what Pan-Slavists are, and why Bull
garia and Roumania aren't just alike but
| it seems to me they might have been civil
enough to wait till you could come back"
oh Lord" groaned Mallory in despair
Commend me to woman for an apprecia-
ton Of practical affairs! Politics, Eleanor:
Politics! Do you think this thing is a
New York municipal election? Do you
know what would happen If l were to lose
down there? 1t would be war, war!
There'd be a small detachment of Russian
troops quietly hustled over the border; that
and I'd be-buried with my fathers. You'd
make an interesting widow, Eleanor
But the princess gave a little cry of
alarm, and her eyes were very wide and
round.
"Oh. is 1t so serious as that?" she de-
manded. "Ah. forgive me- Karl! II didn'
Know didn't realize what it meant
War?Land you killed? All, be care
you have to. You've some one else to
think of now, you know.
Yes, God bless her, said young NAL
Tory. And I'm thinking of her always,
first, you know. 1 must do what I was
brought into the world to do, cost what it
may. Did you think I stopped down there
away from you because wanted to? No
vodnfa comes FIRST because I'm first a ruler
"a man afterward
Yet this Inconsistency Is such,'" he
quoted, laughing little, las thou, too
shalt adore. could not love thee, dear,
SO much loved I not-loved T." And he
paused, stammering, and turned his face
away with sudden fierce passion of hatred
for all this contemplate deception storm
ing within him.
:" Loved I not honor more" said the
Princess Eleanor. softly. "Ah that's like
you, Karl! Loved I not honor more.
Honor's first, isn't it? I'd not hold you back
when honor called you. I'd not even wish
you back, for know that your honor is the
dearest thing In the world to you-you'r re
that sort of man, thank God. You'd never
fail In duty, nor take an unfair advan-
tage. nor play man or a woman a low
trick See how much I've learned of Won
in an hour, my prince!'
But young Mallory sprang to his feet,
teeth and hands clenched.
by my faith, Eleanor he cried, in an
agony, II won't let you think such things
Of me. womb have you so impos-''
Karl" said the Princess Eleanor. and
young Mallory bit his words in two She
rose to her feet and came around to face
him. putting a hand upon his breast
Her great eyes met his. clouded little,
anxious and panied. full for an instant of a
trembling doubt, but she shook her head,