The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
Copyright, 1905. Bobbs- Merrill Coz

HI Copyright, 1905. Bobbs-Merriu Coz
SYNOPSIS.
rthur Warrington, American consul
Barscheit, tells how reigning Grand
Ike attempts to force his neiCe, Prln-
IS Hildegarde, to marry Prince Dopple-
in. an old widOwer. Warrington does
know the princess even by sight
bile horseback riding in the country
hit Overtakes him and he seeks accom-
Idations in diiapidated castle, Here
| finds two women and an old man
want. One woman is Princess Hide
fde and the other a friend, Hon Betty
lore, of England. They detain him to
mess a mock marriage between the
hcess and a disgraCed army officer,
Unlock, done for the purpose of fofllng
! grand duke. StenbOck attempts to
Is the princess and she is rescued by
arlington. Steinbock disappears for
ID. Max Scharfenstein. an old Ameri-
b friend of Warrington's reaches Bar
aeit. Warrington tells him of the prin-
lbs. Scharfenstein shows Warrington
locket with picture of a woman in
lie. 1t was on his neck when he, as
III. was picked up and adopted by his
tier father. whose name he was given.
Il believes it to be a picture of his
bther The grand duke announces to
princess that she is to marry Dopple-
ln the following week.
i CHAPTER VI.
The princess rose at dawn the fol
Wing day. She routed out Hans, the
I'D groom, and told him to saddle
tennis, the slim-limbed, seal-brown
FIy which an English nobleman had
fen her. Ten minutes later she was
/ tie saddle, and the heaViness on
VI aeart seemed to rise and vanish
lie the opal mists on the bosom of
b motionless lake. A pale star
mixed at her, and the day, flushed
lie the cheek of a waking infant, be-
N drowsily to creep over the rolling
puntains.
How silent all the city was! Only
Ire and there above the chimneys
Sc a languid film of smoke. The
ties of the park shut behind witch a
ang, and so for time she was alone
d free. She touched Artemis with
Nr, and the FLY broke into a canter
ward the lake road. The girls nos
Us dilated. Every flower, the thou
nd resinous saps of the forest, the
- itself. yielded up a cool sweet
= me that was to the mind what
ss of wine is to the blood, exhil.
bn.
be would never marry Doppelkinn
over. That horrible Steinbock!
was glad, glad that she had struck
b, again and again, across his lying
es and evil mouth She had believed
At she knew the world; it was all
mystery; the Older she grew the
ss she understood. Wasn't anybody
.od? Was everybody to be distrust-
/? Which way should she turn now?
pc world was beautiful enough; it
ts the people in it. Poor Betty! She
d her troubles, too; but somehow
G refused to confide them. She acted
rs much as If she were in love.
She would never marry Doppelkinn |
never.
But how should she escape-how? |
Wednesday night she would be
zen her quarterly allowance of
)usand crowns, and on Thursday she |
lst act. =. Yes. yes, that was it! |
w simple! She would slip over into |
ppelkinn, where they never would |
nix to search for her. She knew a
ice in which to hide. From Doppel-
IN she would go straight to Dresden
! seek the protection of her old gov
less, who would hide her till the
Se came to his senses. If only she I
an Independent fortune, how she !
uld snap her fingers at them all!
She was distracted by the sound of .
Cling STEEL Artemis had cast a
,e. How annoying! 1t would take
minutes to reach old Bauer's
THY, and ten minutes more to put
a shoe. She brought the Ally down
a walk
only she were Betty, free to do
1T she pleased, to go and come at
I She wasn't born to be a prin-
5; she wasn't commonplace
ugh; she enjoyed life too we'll. All,
,nly she might live and act like
Sc English cousins of hers with
IN she went to school! They could
man-fashion, hunt man-fashion,
ot, play cards and bet at the races
and nobody threatened
n with Doppelkinns. They might
ce. too, till the sun came into the
dows and the rouge on their faces
,ked. But she! Il use the en-
sis to illustrate the decided mods of
pretty head.1 Why, every sweet
to be stolen!
'esently the smithy came into view,
rging from cluster of poplars.
rode up to the doors, dismounted
entered. Old Bauer himself was