The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-08-13
Copyright, 1906. Bobbs- Merrill Coz
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington, American consul
to Barscheit. tells how reigning Grand
Duke attempts TO force his nelee Prin-
cess Hildegarde, to marry Prince Dopple-
kim, an old widower. Warrington does
not know the princess even by sight.
While horseback riding I'm the country
night overtallcs him and he seeks accom-
modations In dllapidatod castle. Here
servant. one woman is Princess Hide
garde and the other a friend, Hon. Betty
Moore, of England. They detain him to
witness mock omarpaSc between the
Stenbock. done for the purpose OF foilng
the grand duke. Steinbock attempts to
Warrington. stelnbock disappears for
good. Max Scharfensten. an old Amerl-
can friend of Warrington's reaches Bar
seheit cWsarrtington tells him Of the prln-
a loeket with picture of woman in
side. 1t was on his neck when he, as a
foster father, whose name he was given.
He believes II to be n picture of his
mother. The grand duke announces to
the princess that she is to marry Dopple-
kim the following week.
CHAPTER vi.
The princess rose at dawn the fol-
lowing day. She routed out Hans the
head groom, and told him to saddle
Artemis, the slim-limbed seal-brown
filly which an English nobleman had
given her. Ten minutes later she was
in the saddle, and the heaviness on
her heart seemed to rise and vanish
like the opal mists on the bosom of
the motionless lake. A pale star
blinked at her, and the day, flushed
like the cheek of waking infant, be-
gan drowsily to creep over the rolling
mountains.
How silent all the city was! Only
here and there above the chimneys
rose a languid film of smoke. The
gates OF the park shut behind with a
clang, and so for time she was alone
and free. She touched Artemis with a
spur, and the filly broke into canter
toward the lake road. The girls nos
trils dilated Every flower, the thou.
sand resinous saps of the forest, the
earth itself, yielded up a cool sweet
perfume that was to the mind what
glass of wine is to the blood, exhil-
aration.
She would never marry Doppelkinn
never. That horrible Steinbock!
She was glad, glad that she had struck
him. again and again, across his lying
eyes and evil mouth. She had believed
that she knew the world; it was all
yet mystery; the older she grew the
less she understood. Wasn't anybody
good? Was everybody to be distrust-
ed? Which way should she turn now?
The world was beautiful enough; 1t
was the people in it. Poor Betty! She
had her troubles, too: but somehow
she refused to confide them. She acted
very much as If she were In love.
She would never marry Doppelkinn
never.
But how should she escape-how?
On Wednesday night she would be
given her quarterly allowance of
thousand crowns, and on Thursday she
must act. Yes, yes, that was it,
How simple! She would slip over into
Doppelkinn, where, they never would
think to search for her. She knew
place In which to hide. From Doppel-
kim she would go straight to Dresden
and seek the protection of her old gov
erness, who would hide her till the
had an independent fortune, how she
would snap her fingers at them all!
She was distracted by the sound of
jangling steel Artemis had cast a
shoe. How annoying! 1t would take
ten minutes to reach old Bauer's
smithy, and ten minutes more to put
on shoe. She brought the filly down
to a walk.
If only she were Betty, free to do |
what she pleased. TO go and come at
will! She wasn't born to be a prin. |
cess; she wasn't commonplace |
enough; she enjoyed life too well. All, |
II only she might live and act like |
those English cousins of hers with
whom she went to SCHOOL, They could |
ride man-fashion, hunt man-fashion,
shoot, play cards and bet at the races
and nobody threatened .
them with Doppelkinns. They might
dance. too, till the sun came into the
and the rouge on their faces
cracked. But shel q use the EN-.
phasis to Illustrate. the decided mods of
her pretty head) Why, every sweet
had to be stolen!
Presently the smithy came into view
from a cluster of poplars
She rode up to the doors. dismounted
and entered. Old Bauer himself was
1t the bellows, and the weird blue
light kissing up from the blown Goals
discovered another customer She
urned and met HIS frank glance of ad-
niration. Of she hadn't turned! II
lis admiration hadn't been entirely
rankD Instantly she sent Bauer
glance which that old worthy
eemed Immediately to understand.
he stranger was tall well-made.