Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-06-25
THE ROYhLI
ADVENTURE
By IONA GALE
CCopyriEht)

She answered him sadiy enough
Good morning. Prince"
"Whet is your highness s0in' n d
tomorrow" he inquired
To-day an tomorrow -hoy're nut
lin up rhubarb," she answered indif
ierently.
Let's skip out to the orchard an
read" he suggested. "Ar I've got
somethin' to tell you. Princess"
At which she burst suddenly into
tears. Don't call me that any more "
she cried; I'm siol to death O. this
pretendin.'
Then, the seat by the well-house
being sheltered IN hollyhocks. he
came and sat beside her and touch 2
her hand. But there was In MS touch
nothing Of the lover, though ne aas
toward 20 and well-fayored. ald Tire
girl. Of fewer years, vas OF da...,
prettiness.
"Discouraged?~ he said
"Nothins any use" she ans woset
We can't never do it."
His brown face shone with his eaz
eruess.
What If you was to hear" he sail
that come here TO telf you ! knoy
way now?"
She looked at bin. her face G.si
ing to the pink Of her cambria frock
There's q double carriage comm
TO Friendship wit some folks to-lnor.
row mornin'," he said from the CITY
It's goin' back to the city empty We
could walk into Friendship about dav.
Hklt an" get a ride IN the carriags
those 20 miles.
Oh. che sfld, are you sure"
As GOOD n sure he answered
an what ris- there Is is fun. Wen
he in che city soon after noon. You
- up to the school an tell EN- you've
9ome to stao-tell EN- you've sot 10
say I'll 60 to the law Office l told
fou about They'll take me I1I make
lem take ne What do you saw"
( Her fears and alarms we're easily
'tsoued away. She had longed as pas.
'ionately as he for what the CITY could
7ive-such a little city it wns. but II
meant 10 them all magic II vas
here that the Female Seminary Home
posed in broad acres. its white towers
Ike a beacon TO the eyes OF tho couu-
'ry giri. And It was there that Hol-
lister & Hollister, a firm with which
the boys father had had some deal.
.ng' carried on prosperous Law bust
-ess. to which for years q chance
word OF the junior member had beck
oned the boy. II was true that tho
work Of a farmhouse called for the
-irl to have willing hands. and thai
IN the farm adjoining, the boys IA
her already aged with work, strur-
lied with stony ground and needed
broad young shoulders for the bur-
len. Nevertheless, the girl and the
10Y had found out each others
.-oams for something better" had
ed on each others ambitions and
ievoured each others books until the
"ln'ry-side coupled their names. But
MS they never guessed, for they were
wing another romance. filed with
leeds past. dreaming of court and
ISnln and, when no one was by. call
.ng each oth1T-prince and princess. for
re sake of many al 0ld 'tsJJe that the,,-
loved.
It was rather like an old tale
.heir meeting next morning. II was
hardly light when the prince turned
down the ragged honeysuckle walk
where the princess lived. The honey
5uckle was all ablossom, sweet and
ct, and an early wind made free of
Its fragrance. There was vet no SIR
ut all at the farm. BY the well-house
behind the hollyhocks the princess |
had been waiting and she came TO I
meet him neatly clothed and carving /
a small bundle of belongings.
See it," he said, as they gained /
'he quiet highroad and faced the omen ,
cast. Did you ever think II we had
been a real prince and a real princess
The sky couldn't possibly look any diff
ferent to us?"
why. no." she said wonderlngly;
but It couldn't, could it?"
The east was cherry-red. High over
head burned a late star. lonely out
post. The birds were all wonderfully
awake, and as the two walked they
named them, by note or fight or coat.
or no wild thing was wholly strange
o them. But tho princess sighed.
ooking toward the eKpectant east
What lots O. things there is to
NOW in the world" she said. 1T must
'e fun to know EN-"
Il know" said the prince I've
bought Of that Like KNOWN about
more an more"
Folks that do know must feel diff
erent in the head" said the princess.
"Oh. they do" said the prince con.
Identity.
When they reached Friendship AT
even 1t would be an hour before the
arriage was ready to leave. Mean
'hile the driver was making merry
90 merry, in the public room of the
title hotel. where the host OF the
lace had Joined him. The man gave
jolly assent to taking two passen
ers to the city, and he pocketed the
ffered fee for the increase of hilar
y.
The driver, having sung songs right
lstily in the hotel-yard as he hitched
Is horses with many a wrong buck
no IF harness tOOlr % A.