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CHAPTER XIV Continued.
rhe Duchess caught hold Of Daisy,

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!. The Duchess caught hold Of Dassy's
i arm.
Not that way, Daisy, dear she
said come to this side" 5
She led the girl TO the opposite win
dow Of the little room.
Look. Z She said, pointing up the
Rhine to where 1t grew narrower
iowa eds Bonn, and to the blue hills in
the far distance, now touched with the
mid-morning sun. great yearning
came into her beautiful eyes.
Ah!ss she said; ut is there, behind
4 those hills, that shall find my dar-
ling! am sure OF it! Something
tells me that he is there, or that l
4 shall find him there. :" II
jackdaw with outstretched pin
ions came sailing by. They could al
y most y have touched the bird by
! stretching out an arm.
Fly to him. the Duchess said,
smiling sadly. ely to my little boy,
and tell him that am coming
They both looked out and far down
from that enormous height without
further words. Up there, high in the
Middle air, hardly any sound from
the great town below rose up to them.
All they heard was the slow, heavy
e ticking mechanism of the great clock,
the breathing eof the guide, who had
lit a china pipe, and far below, borne
on the wings of the high air, an oc-
casfonal siren from one of the far
distant steamboats, which breasted
the turbulent torrent Of the Rhine.
Daisy. the Duchess s,s.s, 81 = feel eel
4 UP here SO relieved, so far away from
the troubles and anxieties down be-
I low. II really has been great idea
Of us to come UP here and stay for
time to steady our nerves before we
s take the train for WohlausI4 Lands
kroIia. Up here, in this clear air, one
feels the whole sense of the meaning
of the word sempyrean., Unhappy as
& 1 am anxious as i am, following the
slight clue towards the object Of my
life as ! am doing nevertheless feel
q freedom UP here, such a freedom as
perhaps bird has"
The guide had lit his pipe, and was
sitting down upon the little stone
bench smoking quietly and philo-.
sophically The Duchess looked at
h him, and then she looked at Daisy.
He does not want to go down Just
\ yet, she said, and think to climb
up all this way has been harder for
4 him than for us. The poorGfel low has
Ito dot every day; and 1t is part and
parcel OF his life. WeShave only done
q It once. and we have not; felt it. 1
should like to stay here a little, Daisy,
and will tell him to wait. / am sure
he won mind. ss
She spoke to the man in German
ard he looked up from his pipe.
Madam, Z he said, 81 love this high
place, and as long as you care to stay
also shall be pleased to be with
i you, 55ss
S5s Daisy turned to the Duchess. "Oh,
then, he won Y mind us staying up
) here for q little time q she asked. Il
cannot understand his German, but I
Il can soc that he is prepared to walt
Oh, of course he is, said the
Duchess; and he knows that he will
{ be we'll paid for his attendance here,
Now, let ,,s look down upon the town.
e Let us look at the hotel: let us see
what Is going on In that tiny little
unicrocosm SO tar below which we
have Just left. Us
The Duchess unslung the leather
strap oyer her should Ter, which held
/ pair 81 light aluminium glasses
made hy Sinclair. 81 the Haymarket,
Vow DAISY, 'ss she said We can
zee everything below These glasses
ARE simply perfect. The distinctnes
b III WONDERFUL We can see the
pigeons Ia the road In front Of the
d hotel, and n the porter comes out we
shall even see whether he Is smiling
~ froWnlEg /, She handed the glasses
tu her companion
they are very light Daisy said
ssblt they seem dlfflcult to manipu
shoW me how, Duchess.
ID quite simple. the Ouch
a. lWereds ou see, you turn the
trA wheel and suit 1t to your own
10cils zen the little ndicator al.
lyes THU mark i myself know that
focused for me. but per
IS 81 That mt s,lit your eyes ex.
fur yourself n
SSSSl too the glasses and turned
\ heel hen she looked
stslsKAT ia the hotel Heb
q n Il ieft She NJ that two men
l.l,i, out 81 front
large inoto sear enalneled III
6s VEN 90. and the two were