New-York tribune., 1910-01-02

$1,000
GRAND DIEUl what resolute will is yours
~ loan! Have you counted the cost. Leave
Alec out of it; but do you think his hog of
father his easily swayed mother. StampOff the
short sighted and patriotic. OF that sChemIng
Greek and his puppet MarulitCh, will gain the
ends for which, between them, they have con-
trived your flight? Do you know Alec so little
as to believe that he will leave the field clear
to that crew? Why. dear heart. he viii sweep
them aside like an angry godl They have be
witched your brain with some tale OF the evil
that will accrue to the King if he weds the
woman he loves. If that is all it IS a fiction ft
only to frighten child. Hear me, Joanl You
are not helping Alec by tearing yourself away
from DelgratZ; but COndemnIng to the deepest
hell not him alone but some millions of people
who have done no wrong. They gave their
honest affections to this boy because he strikes
their imagination a King sent straight from
Heaven. 1t is vile plot, dear heart, TO drive
Alec from Kosnoviai How can YOU, of all
women, lend yourself to it,
Felix could not guess how his words lacerated
the unhappy girls soul; but she did not falter
IN her purpose, and again endeavored to rush
from the church. POluski uttered queer click
with his tongue 1t testified that he had done
his uttermOSt, and failed.
" Be IT So them" he muttered Help me
to pack up these masterpieces. | can plan and
scheme with any man living; but I cannot cope
with heavy parcels of holiness"
Joan. distraught though she was. felt that
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| assisted in packing the carriage with their can
vases and other belongings
Felix urged her no more He Obeyed her
without question or protest. COntriving matters
so that when she quilted the palace. deeply
veiled, to walk TO the station. the soldiers on
guard imagined she was a serving maid going
into the town.
Pauline, though prepared to be faithful at
any hazard, wept when she was told that she
must stay IN Delgratz and face the storm that
would rage when she delivered into the Kings
own hand the letter Joan intruSted to her care.
But even Pauline herself realized that if her
mistress was TO escape from DelgratZ unnOticed,
she, the maid must remain there till the fol-
lowing day. BY that time there would be no
reason why IOanS maid should not leave openly
for the west, and the FrenChwOrnan was only
too thankful at the prospect of a speedy exit
from ." this city of brigandS" to protest too
StrenuOuSly against the role thrust upon her
A 5 events unrolled themselves. the two trav-
elers encountered no difficulty in leaving
Delgratz 1t will be remembered that BeIianI'S
foresight had provided them with return
tickets to Paris, and this circumstance aided
them greatly. In those closely guarded lands
where keen eyed SCrutineers keep watch and
ward over frontier. the production of the
return half of ticket issued IN the same city as
a passport at lullS any doubt that might
arise otherwise. Moreover Joan and Felix Oc-
cupled separate carriages, and the Belgrade Of
hClalS, concerned only with the examination Of
TIC ChCtS gave no llCENl u IuSIll. IuOuSU one man
seemed to recognize Felix and grinned in a
friendly way. Passport formalitieS did not
trouble them till the train crossed the Tave
River and was already in Austrian territory
The frontier officers could not possibly know
them. Their papers were in order and received
only a passing glance. Even Joan. adrift IN a
sea of trouble. that IT was far easier mat
| ter to leave the Balkan area than To enter it.
They arranged to meet in the dining saloon
when all necessity for further precaution would
| nave UISlDDelrpI Felix - tDttDfal nv h.,
self possession Joan now displayed. She was
pale. but quite calm. Her eyes We're clear and
showed no traces OF grief. Even her very man
| ner was revertlng to that good humored tone
| OF frank camaraderie that the unavoidable cere-
moniouSneSS of the last fortnight had kept in
Sublection. Felix was secretly amazed At
these things; but in the depths of his own COM
pleX nature We're hidden away wholly un-
known 10 the little hunchback himself certain
feminine characteristics which enabled him
drrnly 70 understand that the woman who Suf-
| fered most was she who had the strength and the
courage to carry her head most proudly before
the storm.
WELL" said he when the mail train had left