Evening star., 1909-06-06

pressure realizing that he was about to fall back
ward to the floor grasped the ducal wrist The Duke
unable to sustain the Margraves weight So
when the Margrave fell, his Grace fell on top of him.
badly frightened After the fall. the Dukes
energies were at exerted to get hns If off the
Margrave, and the Margrave's utmost efforts
put forth to get from under the Duke. Therefore,
the belligerents were quickly separated and to
their feet, each being frightened than hurt and
more angry than scared.
The incident turned the tide of discussion from
the English marriage, and other subjects were at
taken up.
Many topics of all degrees of importance, ranging
from scandalous intrigues among the to the
gravest matters of state usual discussed this
evening at The Tabagie; but when the subject of
Mlhelminas 1 mari marIiags to Prince Frederick h was
ther proceedings, and asked to be excused, the
ground that he had chair and that he suffered
great pain in his feet.
MO sooner had the Margrave escaped from The
Tabagie than he sought his friend, Captain
Henry, whom he found reading in the latters bed
room.
Congratulate me, congratulate me, my frcndl"
cried the Margrave trying to kiss Henry AT last
l am to have the Princess!"
Henry thought the Margrave was mad; but he
said, If what you say is true, do congratulate you
1T is true. cried the Margrave
excitedly,- true. true, true, All |
to have the angel Was
fortunate? | shall be SO happy
so happy that Heaven itself would be
hateful to me. | shall have my
Heaven here with my angel
leblingi The English betrothal
annulled this evening by the King in
open Tabage. Grumkow told to-
day that it would be annulled and he
also told me that the King would give
me the Princess at once. L1eber HIM
nell The happiness will burst my
hearth
The Margrave's words did not seem
like the rawlings of madman, and
convincing of their truth beat
painfully Henry's heart He had
little of the Princess, and had
- talked with her but He not
~ susceptible youth ready to fall in
love with every pretty face he met;
but in Wlhelmna he had found girl
In who of his class, royal, who
beautiful in every sense of the word,
az but whose appeal to him stronger
~ than mere physical beauty could pos
q sibly be to a of his temperament.
IL He saw in this girl intellect. gen
ss.xS tleneSS purity and wisdom, but he
A also something else that drew him
to her with greater force than all her
perfections-he that she suffered
Z and needed help. He that she
longed for that which is every woman's
due,-love, tenderness, and protection.
The poor Princess had known
of these since her babyhood save pro-
lection, and of that she had had too
much The Queen loved her daughter;
but her Majesty i'll tempered,
.ed Not BE peevsh foolish woman, and vented
and D;.- all her spleen on Wilhelmna. The
~, g King who seemed to hate the Princess
treated her with all the brutality at
his command and in that respect
Frederick William was a genius All these facts
had been made clear to Henry during his short resi-
dcnce in the palace of Berlin. To the right sort of
man. no appeal is stronger than call for help from
a This call had come from Wilhelmina to
Fritz Henry with all the distinctness of cry.
IIENR r,ed hi1oS opet theraf he first shock