The Detroit times., 1909-07-13
The Man
Who Stole
The Earth"
CHAPTER lxxl.-(continued.
By W. Holt Whit.
The PRINCESS In Won.

The Princess Is Won.
The heroic mood in which Strong
left Diana soon left her like an eo-
bipE tide-leit her weak and with d
sense OF utter helplessness
But reaction followed reaction. and
after her first misery al his departure
she became to a certain extent her
own strong self again.
But the days We're tong-how long
she never knew until afterward-and
the trials sore and many.
The king, her father seemed 10
have lost all sense OF love and even
honor He set about in the most cold
and casual way playing fendish
game with Diana's health and sanity.
. II was then that he decided 10 rent
a forlorn, forsaken. weatherbeaten
and mouldy mansion at Chatou.
+ Diana never forgot the journey. Ii
was like going into the world again 10
witness the surprise and the anxiety
rand the interest OF the crowd IN the
iyCstibUle OF the hotel as she was hur
ried through the throng TO the motor
car which was to convey her 10 what
vas practically her prison
/ Till they passed the foriifcaticns oi
, Paris Diana felt the eyes Of the world
! upon her and upon her father. She
{ was not vain. but II seemed 10 her tina;
the battle OF the world ceatered upon
| her.
! And so they came to Cantou-a
pleasant village enough beside the
! Seine-and reached the large and for
bidding villa which the kin had hired
! 10 house her
IL was one OF those plain. square
built old mansions OF France. with
-slit-like- windows eYeFed-by
green shutters and bounded at each
corner by a round. red-tiled tower,
which are as familiar landmarks in
the country OF France as are wooden
sailed windmills in Kent
At first one or the other OF the Bal.
kanian doctors logged her footsteps,
but this irritated her TO such degree
that she sent for them and told them
frankly that If they did not cease their
espionage she would refuse To go ont
They decided. therefore, 10 let
Diana have her way. and she walked
henceforth unmolested in ne gardens;
Tut there were guards stationed at the
gates and without the walls
Diana, was unaware OF this, for the
simple reason that she had almost
ceased TO care The time, indeel
hung heavily on her hands. and at the
end Of ten days. being still sufficiently
collected 10 think Of her peril. she be
came alarmed at the mental apathy
into which she was falling
All one forenoon. therefore. she rea-
soned with herself. pitting her sense
against her inclinations. and her pride
against her better Judgment She had
told Strong that she would not 90
back 10 Bomberg until she returned
as queen. From what scraps of news
she could gather from Felice. whose
mind was hardly of the order to fol
low the running OF political events
she knew that Strong was rough-hew.
ing his way TO the throne NJ had prom
ised her.
And SO she set aside her pride and
resolved TO humble herself To the ex.
tent of calling on him for help. and re-
turning to Bomberg before the dawn
OF HTmagedd0n.
She was puzzled, however. to dis
cover means OF communicating with
strong, for the king had taken away
the wireless instrument which had
been her one consolation I'm tribula
ton II was then that she thought o!
Jimmy Cloud. Accordingly she called
Felce TO her and told her briehy--al
most curtly-of the decision to which
she had come
ITO Be centlnued)