The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
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happened the night before. Never will l fly without her I love- said Giglio. "Oh, she will fly with you've will fly together, my Giglo,'' cried the countess, with langushing leer. "You,' shouted the prince, to whom old Gruffy now appeared quite in her true light; you hideous old woman.' What, did you not give me this promise of marriage?' shrieked Gruffy, and she Haunted the fatal docu- ment in his face. Get away, you old goose!" shouted Giglio. 'I love Betsinda, and Betsnda only" and then he turned his back and ran as fast as he could away from her. .IIa, ha!' sneered Gruffy; "Betsinda, indeed! He little knows who Betsinda is. But if there is law in Patagonia he shall marry me-"
 Things went hardly with poor Betsinda that morning. The Queen was furious with her because of the way the King had acted. Angelica was furious with her be- cause Bulbo loved her; Gruffanuff was furious with her because Giglio loved her. The women fell upon her; almost stripped her of her clothing and, giving her the old mantle she wore when she had first been discovered in the garden, drove her out of the palace. So the poor girl went forth into the winter and the snows. That old ragged mantle had embroidered on it the letters ''prin-Rosa-" and then came great rent .
 When, breakfast time came and Bulbo cid not show up at the table the King asked what had become of him. Captain Hedzoff, who was in attendance, said he was being executed. "What?" shouted the King. "Why, yes, replied Hedzoff, you told me to execute the prince and I took the ugly one." The King. flung a plate of sausages at Hedzoff's head; the princess fell down in a faint and there was a great time. Well, they got a re- prieve to Bulbo just as the headsman's ax was about to fall-and Angelica car ried the reprieve herself. Bulbo had the magic rose (which produced the same eff fleets as the magic ring) in his teeth when he laid his head upon the block, but when the reprieve came and he opened his lips to thank Angelica he naturally let it fail. Angelica picked it up and placed it in her bosom-whch, of course, made Bulbo think her the handsomest girl he had ever seen. The King called for the arch bishop and the young people were married right after breakfast.
 AS for poor Betsinda, she wandered on and on until she found herself forced to take shelter in the hut of woodsman, situated across the border in the land of
 Grim Tartary Now this woodsman proved to be he who had once been the Lord Spinach, a devoted courier of the deposed and murdered King of Grim Tar tary, who, after his royal masters death, had fled to the forests and taken an as- sumed name and humble calling. And Betsinda was, of course, the Princess Rosalba, whom the lions had not killed but let escape, so that she had found her way to the Pafagonian court Spinachi had found in the forest the pieces which had been torn out of the very mantle which Betsinda now wore, and these pieces, fitted in, made the words Princess Rosalba." There were other evidences in
 the old shoes of the girl, in which they
 found the mark of the royal bootmakcr and in the recollections of Betsinda and of the faithful lord. So the Marquis Spinachi spread abroad among all the nobility who remembered with loyalty the Olu King CaValflOre the news Ol tlic Tc- turn to her hereditary domains, of the Princess Rosalba, and. the nobles fiocking to her standard, she was proclaimed Queen and a civil war began.
 But in the meantime what of Gigliof We last saw him running from the pres
 ence of old Gruffy He felt that if he stayed in Patagonia he would either have to have his head cut off or marry Gruffy- or perhaps both It was too much he ned the country, travelling by the first oiii- gence he could catch, giving his name as MT. Giles. It was a bitterly cold day
 and, seeing an old woman with bad
 cough, who had been unable to secure an inside seat Giglio very kindly insisted that she take his seat and not ride outside in the cold On this vulgar traveller sneered: You'd keep her warm, l war rant, if it was muff she wanted" Thereupon Gigio pulled the vulgar trav- elers nose, boxed his ears, hit him in the eye and gave him solemn warning never to call him a huff" again.
 The old lady to whom Giylio gave his seat intimated to him in parting that she