Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-10
ANTHONY HOPE
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'1f Rastatz were right and my mem.

'1f Rastatz were right and my mem.
0fy wrong
He smiled still. 1.-THE ofIense against
discipline would be % much less seri-
Gus. The prince II q disciplinarian. To
speak with all respect, be forgets some
Zines that discipline IL, In the last
analysis, only part OF policy-a
means. not an end. The end is always
che safety and tranquility Of the state. y
He spoke with weighty emphasis.
1.-THE offense against disciplined An
attempt to assassinate''-
II see you cling to your own men,
DRY. You won't have anything to say
to Rastatzr' He rose and bowed over
her hand. much may happen between
now and Saturday. Look about you,
watch and thinkr'
: The generals final injunction, at
feast, Sophy lost no time in obeying, and
On the slightest thought three things
were obvious-the king was very CRATE
full to her, Stenovics wished, at any rate,
to appear very grateful to her, and, for
some reason or another, Stenovics
wished her memory to be wrong to
the end that the life of Mistitch and
his companiOn-the greater included
the less-might be spared. Why did
he wish that?
Presumably-his words about the re-
lation Of discipline to policy supported
the conclusion--to avoid that disturb
ance which the prince had forecasted
~ the result Of Mistitch's being put to
death. But the prince was not afraid
OF the disturbance Why should Ste
movies be3 The commandant was oil
conAdepce. Was the minister afraidf
n some sense he was afraid. That she
accepted. But she hesitated to believe
that he was afraid in the common
sense that he was either lacking In
0Drve or overburdened with humanity,
that he either feared fighting or would
shrink from a salutary severity in re-
pressing tumult. II he feared. he fear
ID neither for his own skin nor for the
akin OF others. He feared for his policy
or his ambition.
These things were nothing to her.
She was for the prince. for his policy
and his ambition. Were they the same
- 6tenovics'3 Even a novice at the
game could see that this by no means
followed Of necessity. The king was
elderly and went a-fishing. The prince
was young and a martinez. In age Ste
movies was between the two-nearly
twenty years younger than the king, a
dozen or 20 older than the prince. I'm
der the present regime he had matters
almost entirely his own way. At first
sight there was Of q certainty no rea-
con why his ambitions should coincide
peocisely with those Of the prince. Fiji
4y-nine. forty-one. twenty-eight-th
aess Of the three men In themselves H.
Illuminated the nituation-that ID, Il
forty-o could manage flfty-nine, but
ha4 no such power over twenty-eight.
New to such meditations. yet with
native pleasure In them. taking to the
troubled waters - though born SWIM
mer, Sophy thought and watched and
locked about. Al to her own part she
Was clear. Whether Rastatx was right.
whether that most vivid and indelible
memory OF hers was wrong. were ques-
lions which awaited the sole determi-
nation Of the Prince Of slavna.
Her attitude would have been IN.
changed. but her knowledge much In
creased, could she have been present
ut certain meeting on the terrace Of
the Hotel de Paris that same evening.
0ArkArt was there, and little Rastatx,
whose timely flight and accommodating
memory rendered him today not only 4
free man, but parsonage Of value. But
neither did more than wait ON the
words Of the third member OF the party
that Colonel Stafnitx Of the hussars
who had an old fend with Mistitch. for
whom Mistitch had mistaken the
Prince Of Slavna. A most magnani-
NOUS. forgiving gentleman apparently.
this spare. slim built man with thought.
lul eyes. His whole concern was to
get Mistitch out Of The mess! The feud
10 seemed to remember not at all. 1t
was feud Of convenience. a feud to
Dwear to ut the court martial. He was
- ready to accommodate Stenovics
With the use Of his name as Rastatx
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4 his memory. But there. with that
IMPLY Of convenient fiction, his pli-
lbility stopped. He spoke to Markart.
nping him as a conduit pipe-the words
would dow through to General Ste
povics.
s'If the general doesn't want to see
ne n0w-and I can understand that be
mustn't be caught confabbing with any
imposed parties to the affair-you |
must make 1t plain to him how matters |
stand Somehow and by some means |
,ur dear Hercules must be saved. Her
Jules Is an ass. but SO are most Of the |
men and all the rowdies of Slavna.
they love their Hercules. and they
Won't let him die without a fight-and
! very big fight. In that fight what
night happen to his royal highness. the
And II anything did
lappen to him. what might happen to
General Stenovics7 / don't know that
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