The Detroit times., 1909-07-02
The Man
Who Stole
The Earth"
CHAPTER Xxx.
By ". Holt Whlh

And When il is al over" Strung
added. and both OF Us should happen
10 be alive. | give You my word that!
whether cOnqueror or yanQuished, /
will as gladly shake hands with you
then as shake hands with you now
/ once more the kaiser shook Strong
/ by the hand and immediately after
ward drove back TO Berlin.
/ The heroic mood Ia which Strong
I left Diana soon left her like an e0bins
tide-leit her weak aud with a sense
OF utter hopelessness.
But reaction followed reaction. and
after her first misery at his departure
she became 10 cerUlin extent hes
own strong self again
I But thu days We're .ong-hOw long
she never knew until afterward-aai
the trials sore and many.
The king. her father seemed 10 have
/ lost all sense OF love and even honor.
lie set about IN the most cold ana
casual way playing 1 hendish game
with Diana's health and sanity
IL was necessary 60 his purpose that
she should be regarded as mad. IL
was 10 his ultimate good that she
should remain sane. and il required
great subtlely OF thought and action
10 balance the real sanity against the
! prompted madness.
Following on Strong escape. the
! king brought again u the hotel the
two doctors who, at his bidding. had
certified Diana as without her senses
They were sleek and urbane men,
as is the way with rogues. and they
conveyed TO Diana herself just sutii-
cient suggestion OF her mental de-
rangement 10 breed in her mind a
doubt OF her own sanity.
When. indeed they LETT she fell
once more into q state OF hysteria, for
which no one could blame her So
prolonged was il, and SO passionate.
/ that even the king was alarmed. and
he saw that ii he were 10 play an ex-
ceedlngly dangerous game with sue
cess he must al least leave Diana her
one consolation, the old woman Fe-
lice
For II was TO her that Diana had
chung and upon her breast that Diane
had scbbed and cried and In her
arms at last that Diana had found
calm and afterward sleep.
And the king wagsed his head 70
himself as be 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 II 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. gTum.
| bling and reluctant
III her tense state OF nerves that
was at least something. but after his
! departure there was nothing but inf
mite dullness.
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 sec
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 it is always
Interesting 10 knox that people are
interested in oneself
/ Twice a day Diana went driving
driving from Paris 10 Passy. and then
10 the Bots de Boulogne Felice. she
insisted. should come with her. and
SO the old. fat French woman sat
smiling silently by Ter side, while
one or other Of the doctors alway
sat. with his sleek gloomy face. upon
the opposite seat.
Jimmy Cloud did his best 10 cast of
his callousness 70 all about him. Out
Of friendship for Strona he haunted
the Grand hotel a great deal more
than pleased him, and at last satisfied
himself that, so far, all was we'll a.
/ far as Dlana's physical being went
! Had he been a man Of a shade more
gentle feeling he would have realized
the mental stress 10 which Diana was
1 put But all his comprehension lay,
: in his pleasure in physical endurance
and the subsequent physical effects.
/ He did not quite understand the an
suish ~ mind which Diana was sui.
/ fering His method indeed. was that
LOT the comfortable warder who.
charged with the superintendent OF
the condemned man. contents himself
with seeing that the criminals stori-
ach Is flied.
Gro Re Continued.)