The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-09-10

YOU'RE wondering what mean
what I'm after?" he asked her. smiling
quietly. "Oh. yes, see you are. Go
on wondering. thinking, watching
things about you for a day or two.
There are three days between now and
Saturday You'll see me again before
Saturday. and I've no doubt you'll see
the prince"
"If Rastatz were right and my mem.
ory wrong
He smiled still "The offense against
discipline would be so much less seri-
Gus. The prince is discipllnarian. To
speak with all respect, he forgets some
times that discipline is. in the last
means. not an end. The end is always
the safety and tranquility Of the state"
He spoke with weighty emphasis.
1.-THE offense against disciplined An
attempt to assassinate'-
IL see you cling to your own mem.
ory. 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 thinkp'
The generals fnal injunction. at
least, Sophy lost no time in obeying, and
on the slightest thought three things
were obvious-the king was very CRATE
! ful to her. Stenovlcs wished at any rate
! to appear very grateful TO her. and. for
anne reason or another. Stenovics
1ished her memory to be wrong to
the end that the life of Mistitch and
his companion-the greater included
the less-mght be spared Why did
he wish that7
Presumably-his words about the re-
lation of discipline to policy supported
the conclusion-to avoid that disturb
ance which the prince had forecasted
as the result of Mistitch's being put to
death But the prince was not afraid
of the disturbance Why should Ste
movies be-? The commandant was all
confidence Was the minister afraid2
In 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
nerve or overburdened with humanity,
that he either feared lighting or would
shrink from a salutary severity In re-
pressing tumult. IL he feared, he fear
ed neither for his own skin nor for the
skin 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
as Stenovcs? Even novice at the
game could see that this by no means
followed OF necessity The king was
elderly and went a-hshing. The prince
was young and martinez. In age Ste
movies was between the two-nearly
twenty years younger than the king a
dozen or so older than the prince. Un-
der the present regime he had matters
almost entirely his own way. At first
sight there was Of certainty no rea
son why his ambitions should coincide
precisely with those of the prince Eff
ty-nine forty y-One. twenty -eight--the
ages of the three men in themselves H.
Illuminated the situation-that is, lf
forty-one could manage tifty-nine, but
uul llO HuiU DONtl wv NNtnlN -tlklls
New to such medltations. yet with n
native pleasure In them, taking TO the
troubled waters as though born n swim.
mer. Sophy thought and watched and
looked about As to her own part she
was clear. Whether Rastatz was right,
whether that most vivid and indelible
memory Of hers was wrong, were ques.
tions which awaited the sole determi-
nation Of the Prince Of Slavna.
Her attitude would have been un.
changed. but her knowledge much In
creased. could she have been present
at a certain meeting ON the terrace OF
the Hotel de Paris that same evening
Markart was there. and little Rastatz,
whose timely flight and accommodating
memory rendered him today not only a
free man. but parsonage OF value. But
neither did more than wait on the
words of the third member OF the party
that Colonel Stafnitz Of the hussars
who had an old feud 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.
full eyes. His whole concern was TO
get Mistltch out OF the mess! The feud
he seemed to remember not at all, II
was a feud OF convenience. feud to
swear to at the court martial. He was
as ready to accommodate Stenovics
with the use of his name as Rastatz
was to offer the requisite notifications
Of his memory, But there, with that
supply of a convenient fiction, his pill
ability stopped. He spoke to Markart
using him as conduit pipe-the words
would flow through to General Ste
movies.
"If the general doesn't want to see
me now-and | can understand that he
mustn't be caught confabblng with any
supposed parties to the affair-you
must make it plain to him how matters
stand Somehow and by some means
our dear Hercules must be saved. Her
cules is an ass. but so are most of the