The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-07
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{ Is. What did YOU do that compelled
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Grumeach's pipe hung pendulent In
s hi sl"d' tie swung it t" and fro all
am waiting Remember. YOU are
an American citizen, for all that you
were born here. II ANYTHING should
happen 10 you, | must know the whole
story IN order t. hetp YOU. Ynn know
that yea may trust me
II isn't that, captain, / have grown
10 like YOU In these few days"
What has that 10 do with it, Inn
patiently.
Nothing perhaps 0nlA.-lI-l tell
you, you viii not be my friend,
Nonsense! What you did sixteen
years ago doesn't matter now 1t IS
enough for me that sou fought in my
regiment and that you were brave
soldier"
Those opera glasses. It was an idea
Well. since sou VIII know was
gardeners boy. / worked under nv
brother Hermann. used to ask the
nurse. who had charge Of her serene
highness. where she would GO each
day. Then I'd cut flowers ana mtet
them on the road somewhere and give
the bouquet to the child. There was
never any escort a footmau and "a
driver. The little one was always
greatly pleased and she would call me
Hans ! was In ioNe thos. days,
tsrumbach laughed with bittern 2ss.
sYes even /. Her name WAS Tekln.
and she was a Jade. | wauttd To run
away, but had no money. | had al
ready secured a passport. no matter
how. 1t WAC the first affair, and was
desperately hurt one day gypsy
came TO me | shall always know
him BY the yellow spot in enc Of his
black eyes ! was given a thoBsa nj
crowns 10 tell him which road her
highness was 10 be driven over the
next day AS | said / was mad with
love. Why a gypsy should want to
know where her highness was going
TO ride was of no consequence to me,
J. told him | was TO get the money
the same night. II was thus that her
highness was stolen, II Was thus that
!. j became accessory before the fact as
the lawyers say. Flight with a hand
Of Magyar gipsies. weary days in the
Il mountains, with detschments Of troops
securing the whole duchy. Finally I
escaped. A fortune was offered for
the immediate return Of the child. At
the time l believed that ii was an ah-
dlction for ransom; But no one ever
came forward for the reward. There
WAS price on my head when l, WAS
known that I had fed" Grumbach
& stared into his pipe without seeing
anything
And no one ever came for the re-
4 ward? That liz strange Was immun-
L Ivy promised - asked Carmichael
Tt was Inferred. but not literally
promised"
Fear kept them away"
Perhaps. And there Is Arnsberg
Was he guilty %
never saw his hand anNw here
SO this aa thr- story. We'll when a
mans In love he is more or less. In
the clutch of temporary INSANITY" Car
Mfchaefs tone wasn't exactly CHEEKY.
Insanity Then you do not Judge
me harshly
NO, Hans, I've Wild streak in
me also, But what can't under.
STAND IN why you return and put your
B mead IN the Hons mouth The police
VIII stumble on something. tell you
frankly that II you are arrested
could do little or nothing for you. The
United states protects only Harmless.
poiificai outcasts Yours is a erin.
sucn as nullines your citizenship. and
any government would be compelled
according to the terms Of treaty. ,e
send you back here. II the demand
vas made for your extrAdition.'
know all that Grumbach r..
pieo, dumping the ash into his main,
ano casting II into the paper basket.
suppose that when conscience
ofases we must 40 on. But the prin-
aess mas been found. The best thing
You can do is to put your passports
into 3E1unpniafs
states. You can do no good here
Maybe Grumbach reflled his
Z Pipe. fIgfited H. and without saving
more vent oAt and down into IN,
street.
Carmichael watched him through
the window. Cloud after cloud of
smoke ran wavering behind the exile
lie was smoking like one deeply per
furbed.
Hes queer oodger. and it's a
queer story. 1 don't believe | HAY.
heard II all, either What was IN
really hunting FOR with those glasses
! give IL up"
He was not angry with Grum ba ch
rather he seemed 10 be dra~n IL AitH
more closely than ever. Mad with
. love, That WAS the phrase. He con-
ned II over and over. mad with love
That excused many things. How
strangely the chessmen were moved
4 Had drumbaeh not assisted In the a b.
duction. her highness would in all
probability have grown up as other
prineesses. artificial, cold. reserved
seldom touched by the tires of am
mated thought or action. In fact, had
things been otherwise, he never would
have ridden with her highness in the
freshness OF the morning--~or fallen in
& fftKA with her Ey riSktG ba 20