The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26

 1 fort, they felt that their new existence
 was almost uncomfortable because of the Iomp and luxuries that it lacked. Christian, who soon learned the diff culties of getting money in Paris and thus had become more experienced than his queen, did occasionally say: This | Rosen is comprehensible. I really do not know how he manages" Then he would ] add, laughing: But one may be sure that he does not use any of his own | money"
 | The truth was that Rosen's name had | always been considered synonymous with | that of Miser. He had not waged war against the Turks and Montenegrins for glory alone After each campaign his baggage wagons returned well laden. His magnificent palace in Paris over
 flowed with rare things, spoils from pal
 aces, convents and harems, all piled Up in suites of immense reception rooms. He had not pillaged at random, like some generals who carried away with them everything in their path, in the manner of bombshell that takes gold or wisps of straw alike.
 
 the military and domestic service for his monarchs, the duke saw to it that there were half score of horses in the stables and that throng of servants oommensu- rate with royal dignity pervaded the place His face expressed the agony of avarice every time he paid a bill but the bills were paid, and he managed to provide money even for the pleasures of the king The rulers had been in exile a year when Father Alphee appeared in tAa shabby apartment of Elysee Meraut and engaged him as tutor for the young Prince Zara.
 Elysee found frail, precocious, sickly little boy with a forehead as wrinkled as if it felt the weight of the GOO years of his race Yet he fancied that he saw a pre- ordained leader of men and of nations, and said gravely and with trembling voice: "Your highness you will be a king some day and you must learn what it is to be king. Listen to me and look at he attentively.'
 Then, as one who stoops to the floor, he bent himself to reach that little in. telligence with fit words and images that might explain the dogma of divine right that kings are sent to earth by God with d mission to the people, and charged with duties and responsibilities which other men have not.
 The queen listened in delightful surprise 10 words which she had waited for in de- spair for many months. Little Zara fel: the warm, vivifying influence of the rich heart of the Gascon, though he did not understand all, or nearly all, that he said. The queen thought of her fellow rulers 'l exile who were content to accept thelr destiny and lived idly for the pleasure Of the minute. Then she looked at this ple- beian, this weayer's son, whose noble fea- lures were animated by faith and sacred fire. Against that lighted brow there rose ,l her minds vision the handsomA irreso- lute face of the king.
 Day after day she saw new intelligence come into little Zara's face, new flush come into his pale checks Her thoughts scared into the future where she had a vision of the child-king entering Layba- in triumph.
 King Christian and his unfortunate aid de-camp spent more and more time away from the royal household. Poor Herbert, even while he was proud of the monarchs favor that made him a parsonage in Paris, suffered sadly because he could see hardly anything of Coette. He cursed the existence of a fast man, that kept him away from her. Herbert de Rosen, with all his reputation as a man about town, was childishly fond of his wife. and would have given up anything else for her company
 Ore evening when he did manage to | snatch a few moments with her he thought to amuse her by telling her the latest story about Christian It was that whenever an atIair began to weary him he would send tiny silken-haired mon-