The Detroit times., 1909-07-02
The Man
Who Stole
The Earth"
By W. Holt Whtts
CHAPTER LxxI.


10 De alive. give You my word that.
whether conqueror or vanquished. |
Twill as gladly shake hands with you
then as shake hands with you now.
once more the kaiser shook Strong
10y the hand and Immediately after
ward drove back 10 Berlin.
The heroic mood Ia which Strong
left Diana soon left her like an ebbing
tide--left her weak and with sense
OF utter hopelessness.
But reaction followed reaction, and
after her first misery at his departure
she became TO a certain extent hex
own strong self again
But the days were iong-how long
she never knew until afterward-ani
| the trials sore and many.
! The king. her father, seemed TO have
lost all sense OF love and even honor
, He set about in the most cold ana
casual way playing fiendish game
with Diana's health and sanity
/ IL was necessary to his purpose that
she should be regarded as mad II
was TO his ultimate good that she
should remain sane. and IL required
great subtlety OF thought and action
! 10 balance the real sanity against the
prompted madness.
Following on Strongs escape, the
king brought again ~ the hotel the
two doctors who, at his bidding. had
certified Diana as without her senses
i They were sleek and urbane men,
as Is the way with rogueS. and they
conveyed TO Diana herself just suffi
cient suggestion Of her mental de-
lrangement 20 breed in her mind a
/ doubt Of her own sanity.
/ When. indeed. they left she fell
once more into state OF hysteria, for
which no one could blame her So
! prolonged was IT, and SO passionate.
i that even the king was alarmed. and
he saw that II he were to play an ex-
ceedingly dangerous game with sue
cess he must at least leave Diana her
one consolation, the old woman Fee
I lice.
For It was 10 her that Diana had
chung and upon her breast that Diana
had scbbed and cried, and In her
arms at last that Diana had found
calm and afterward sleep
And the king wagged his head e.
himself as he thought Of the matter
afterward. and dubbed Felice the safe.
" valve of Diana's feelings And in
this he was right. Indeed. but for
Felice il Is doubtful IL Diana could
possibly have borne the strain of the
DAYS that were to come.
The king left for The Hague-left
Diana TO the care OF two sleek doctors,
woman attendant and Felice.
Ludwig went with the king. grum-
bling and reluctant
In her tense state OF nerves that
was at least something, but after his
departure there was nothing but inf
mite dulluess.
She was for "a hours the ninth won
der Of the Partisan world Crowds
stood outside the hotel watching her
windows. In comparative silence for d
Partisan multitude.
Those people at least she could SEQ;
of her more immediate neighbors she
knew comparatively little
Had she been able TO know more.
the hardship Of the watching may
have been lessened for II is always
/ Interesting to know that people are
! interested in oneself
Twice a day Diana went driving
. NilN tilE llbli L az - ~ AHHFf anu AAAFit
10 the Bots de Boulogne Felice, she
insisted, should come with her, and
so the old fat French woman sat
smiling silently by her side, while
one or other Of the doctors always
sat. with his sleek gloomy face. upon
the opposite seat
Jimmy Cloud did his best 10 cast of
his callousness 60 all about him. Out
of friendship for Strone he haunted
the Grand hotel a great deal more
than pleased him. and at last satisfied
himself that, so far. al was VII as
far as Diana's physical being went.
Had he been man 81 a shade more
gentle feeling ne would have realized
the mental stress TO which Diana was
put But all his comprehension lay.
in his pleasure In physical endurance
and tho subsequent physical effects.
He did not quite understand the an
guish OF mind which Diana was SUI.
fering His method. indeed. was that
OF the comfortable warder. who.
charged with the superintendent OF
the condemned man. contents himself
with seeing that the criminals stom-
ach Is filled.
lTo De ContinuedJ