The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-06-13

pleasure in forcing you? But you
leave me no other method"
Il am young girl, and he is an old
man"
THAT is immaterial. Besides, the
fact has gone abroad. 1t is now ire
vocable."
Il promise to go out and ask the
first man | see to marry mel" she de-
clared.
Pray heaven, it may be Doppel-
kinn!" said the duke drolly.
"Oh, do not doubt that / have the
courage and the recklessness. I would
not care if he were young, but the
prince is old enough to be my father"
You are not obliged to call him
husband" The duke possessed spar
kle tonight which was unusual in him.
Perhaps he had won some of the state
moneys which he had paid out to his
ministers that day. Let us not waste
any time" he added
Il shall not waste any" y,"-ominously.
Order your gown from Vienna, or
Paris, or from wherever you will.
Don't haggle over the price; let it be
good one; I'm willing to go deep for
It,"
You loved my aunt once,"--a
broken note in her voice.
Il love her still, mot unkindly;
but l must have peace in the house.
Observe what you have so far accom-
plished in the matter of creating tur-
antl
MY sins?"-contemptuou
Let us call them your transgres-
sions. Listen. You have ridden
horse as man rides it, you have rid
den bicycles in public streets; you
have stolen away to a masked ball;
you ran away from school in Paris
and visited heaven knows whom: you
have bribed sentries to let you in
when you were out late; you have
thrust aside the laws as if they meant
nothing; you have trifed with the
state papers and caused the body po-
litic to break up a meeting as a conse-
quence of the laughter"
The girl as she recollected this day
to which he referred laughed long and
had done, and | am not sure that his
mouth did not twist under his beard.
Foreign education is the cause OF all
this" he said finally. Those cursed
French and English schools have
ruined you. And | was fool enough to
send you TO them. This is the end"
"Or the beginning. g.'-rebelliously,
"Doppelkinn is mild and kind"
Mild and kind! One would think
that you were marrying me to horse!
Well, / shall not enter the cathedral"
How Will you avoid it?"-calmly
81 shall find way; wait and see."
She was determined.
Il shall wait" Then, with a sudden
softening, for he loved the girl after
his fashion; u am growing old, my
child. If | should die, what would be-
come of you? l have no son; your
Uncle Franz, who is but year or two
younger than l am, would reign. and
he would not tolerate your madcap
ways. You must marry at once.
love you In spite of your willfulness.
But you have shown yourself incapa-
BILE OF loving. Doppelkinn is wealthy.
You shall marry him"
II will run away, uncle, decidedly
Il have notified the frontiers,"-
TRANQUILITY. From now on you will be
watched. It is the inevitable, my
child, and even | have TO bow to that"
She touched the paper in her bosom,
but paused.
Moreover. have decided" went on
the duke, TO send the Honorable Bet.
ty Moore back TO England"
"BettyT
Yes. She is charming young per.
SON, but she is altogether too sympa-
thetic, She abets you In all you do.
Her English independence does not
conform with my ideas. After the
wedding | shall notify her father"
Everything. everything My friends.
nay liberty. the right God gives to
every woman-to love whom she Will
And you, my uncle. rob me Of these
thingal What Il should tell you that