Arizona republican., 1911-12-28

In the life of the Deeping villages
 the mere letting of Muttle Deeping
 Grange was no mimportant event but
 the inhabitants of Great Deeping. Nut
 tie Deeping (pOssibly corrupting of Middle Deeping) and Little Deeping
 were stirred tO the very depths of their
 being when the news came that it had
 been let to German Princess. The
 women at any rate. awaited her com ing with the liveliest interest and i curiosity. emotions dashed SOmeway from their fine height when they
 learned that Princess Elizabeth of
 CasselNassau was only thirteen years ] and seven months old.
 The Twins did not share the excited l curiosity of their neighbors. They re 1 SPnted the fact that the tenant of Muttle Deeping Grange was a German | Princess. Erebus was more resentful
 than the Terror; and it is to be sus- | pected that the high patriotic spirit
 she displayed in the matter was in
 some degree owing to the fact that | Mrs. BlenkinsOp, the chief gossip of
 the neighhorhood. who came one after
 noon tO tea gushing information about | the grandfatherS. grandmOthers. un-
 cleS. cousins. and aunts of the Prin-
 cess. ended by saying. with meaning
 What model she will he to the little
 girls of the neighborhood '"
 The spirit of Erebus was high. not ! by any means one to brook the thought of q model nearly two months | younger than herself She did not
 hide from the Terror her dark convic-
 tion that the coming of the Princess ! was but phase of the German inva-
 sion which was presently to sweep England from sea to sea with fire and sword.
 When presently the Princess came to | the Grange the lively curiosity of her neighhorS was gratified by but an i'm | perfect vision of her. She did not. as | they had expected. attend any of the | three churches. for she had brought i with her her own Lutheran pastor. | They only saw her on her afternoon ! drives. stiff little figure. thickly yelled against the sun. sitting bolt up- ] right in the victoria beside the crim- son baroness (crimsOn in face: she wore black( in whose charge she had | come tO England.
 They had learned presently that the Princess had come to Muttle Deeping for her health: that she was delicate. and her doctors feared lest she should develop consumption they hoped that q summer and autumn in the excellent Deeping air would strengthen her. The news abated q little the cold hos tility of Erebus.
 But the fact that she was one of the ! people which was going to sweep Eng land with fire and sword was not with out its influence on the Twins resolve to raid the famous peach-garden of Muttle Dccping Grange. Their mother was out of sorts: and Dr ArbuthnOt had ordered her to eat plenty of fruit Peaches were the best fruit in season: and the peaches in the Grange garden were said to he finer than any beaches grown in a hothousc The Twins had never been able to believe that the laws of HeRm and THHm applied to fruit
 It was in the afternoon. sweter- ing afternoon. after the doctors visit: and the Twins were about to set forth on their bicycles. without any goal in mind. when q sudden gleam came into the deep blue eyes of the Terror. and he said:
 I've got an idea
 An answering light gleamed in the brown eyes of Erebus: and she cried iOyfully: Thank goodness, l was be ginning tO think that nothing was ever going tO occur to LIS again, Ii must be the hot weather
 Those Germans" said the Terror slowly. 'Why shouldn't we make a raid on the Grange peaches:"
 ''Rather,' cried ErebuS; and her piquant face was all alight with stir ring spirit. Then after q pause she added reluctantly. "But if the Prin- cess is an invalid, perhaps she wants them herself"
 ''Shc can't want all of them Why. rc couldn't. There are hundreds" said the Terror And they're the very thing for Mum. Plums are all very well: but one gets tired of them"
 But how are we going to get into the garden? The door in the wall only opens on the inside said Erebus thOughtfully
 We're not" said the Terror. Hurry up and get some leaves to put between the peaches. Mum will like them bet ter with the bloom on. though it really doesn't make any difference to the taste"
 ErebuS ran into the kitchen garden: and when she came back. she found the Terror tying a small landng-net to the backbone of his bicycle. She put the leaves into her bicycle basket: and they rode slowly to Muttle Deeping.
 The Twins knew the country round thoroughly: and they came unseen along the screen of the home wood tO the fringe of trees which runs along the walled garden behind the Grange. That fringe of trees was indeed use ful; standing on low branch of one of them. the Terror raised his head cautiously above the wall and surveyed | the garden. X dancing simmer of | heat rose above the fruit trees. trained i low. It was empty and silent save for | a curious snoring sound which dis | quieted him little. since he ascribed it | to some distant pig
 He stepped on to a higher branch. | leaned over the wall and surveyed the | golden burden of the tree below him. | He chose his peach. the ripest he could | see. slipped his net under it, fiicked it, | lifted the peach in 1t over the wall, | and lowered 1t down to Erebus.