Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-14

and the grand duke were comrades a.
Heidelberg. But if your gypsy fail:
| your"
"stin l shall remain This will be al
! shall have, these clocks. / am only
| sixty-eight. yet no one would believe me
under eighty. I no longer gaze into mir
rors. I have forgotten how l look. There
were letters found in my desk. all for.
could only deny. I saw that my case
| was hopeless, so fed to Paris. I wrote
| Herbeck once while there. He believed
that I was innocent. l have his letter
yet. He has great heart. Ludwig, and
he has done splendid work for Ehren
| STEM"
| He keeps a steady hand on the duke
But you. what are you doing in Drei-
| berg. in this guise?"
| Herr Ludwig sat upon the counter and
! clasped a knee. do you care for fairy
| stories?"
Sometimes
We'll. once upon time there lived q
king. He was young. He had an uncle
| who watched over him and his affairs
They call such uncles prince regents
This prince regent had an idea regarding
| the future welfare of this nephew. He
| would bring him up to be a man, well
educated, broad-minded and clean-lived
| He should have a pilot to guide him past
the traps and vices which befall the
| young. Time wore on. The lad grew
up, clean TN mind. strong in body. liberal
| fine prince. No scandalous entangle-
| ments: no gaming: no wine bibbing be-
| yond what any decent man may do. In
his palace few saw anything of him after
his fifteenth year He went into the
world under an assumed name. By and
by he came home, quietly. His uncle was
proud of him, for his eye was clear and
his tongue was clean. In one month he
was to be coronated. And now what dc
you think? He must have one more ad-
venture, just one. Would his uncle 60
| with him? Certainly not. Moreover. the
! time for adventure was over. He must
no longer wander about: he was king
he must put his hand to kingcraft. And
one morning his uncle found him gone,
gone as completely as if he had never ex-
listed What to do? All. The prince
regent set it going that his majesty had
gone a-hunting in Bavaria. Then the
prince regent put on some old clothes
and went a-venturing himself"
And the end?'
God knows said Ludwig, sliding OF
the counter.
Nothing but the ticking of the clock.
was heard.
"And fatuous fool that this uncle was.
he committed an almost irreparabe
blunder. He tried to marry his nephew
Il understand. But if you are discov-
cred here?'
THAT is not likely"
"Ah. Ludwig, it is not the expected
that always happens. Be careful: you
-
treaty"
"Herbeck: there's man." said Herr
Ludwig, admrngly. ITO have found her
highneSs as he did,
The other picked up his watch Can
l be of material assistance?"
II want nothing" haughtily.
Proud old imbecile!" replied the noun
wronged. but some day you will pick up
the thread in the labyrinth and there will
be light forward. 1 myself shall see
what can be done with the duke"
He will never be brought to reason un-
less indubitable evidence of my inno-
cence confronts him. With the restora-
ton of the princess fifty political pris-
oners were given their liberty and re-
stored to citizenship. The place once oc-
cupied by my name is still blank, oblit-
best of my heart and of my brain to
Ehrenstein-for this! / am innocent
II believe you. Carl. Remember, Jug
endheit will always welcome you. 1
tween now and midnight The good God
will unravel the snarl."
.'Or forget it," cynically. Good bye.
Ludwig.
taineer took himself off. The clock
mender. philosophically, reached for his
tools. He had wasted time enough over
retrospection he determined to occupy
himself with the present only. Tick-tock.
Textbook. sang the clocks about him. All
at once volume of musical sounds broke
forth: cuckoo calls. chimes, tinkles light
and thin. booms deep and vibrant. But
the clock-mender bent over his work; all
he was conscious of was the eternal tick
took! tick-tock. on and on, without ces-
sation.
Carmichael walked his horse. This
morning he had ridden out almost to the
frontier and was now on his return. AS
he passed through the last grove of
pines and came into the clearing the pic