Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

@At the front, which you have not seen.
All! if we waste the time!" He had risen, and
now he tiptoed to the door and listened there
intently. at is nearly done? must appear
below"
"There-there!" said Thurley, signing the
note, and she placed it at once in his hand.
He read it hurriedly. 1t was written in
German.
DEAR KARL-RoBLEY.-I am captive in an
old mill. one mile out to the east from vii
lage of East Winog, Long Island. You must
come alone to save me. bringing no one with
you nearer than the village, and at nine
tonight! 1t is important that you come alone.
You must remember that, or it seems l
sentenced! Yours, IHURLEY.
"Karl-Robley?" he said inquiringly. @But
his name"
Thurley redeemed. She had thought by
this means it might be possible to get the
intelligence also to Stuyverant, who, far
more than all the Dukes in the world, might
move effectively.
"A nickname, she told the man without
so but myself
"The better then, that he will know it is
from yourself" agreed Pelevin, hurriedly
tucking the note in his pocket. "The bless
ing of the God, if shall be able to help you
my Princess!" Again the tears welled
swiftly to his eyes, and, kneeling, he kissed
the hem of her skirt, then, Fastening to his
dishes, made a noisy clatter at the table, and
sprang through the door to stumble awk-
wardiy down the stairs which Madam Ia
gorsky was ascending.
Chapter xxxvII. The Baron and a Knight
THAT morning brought little of comfort
or hope to Alice Van Kirk, and nothing
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had arrived; the mystery of Thurley's dis
appearance and whereabouts remained abb
solutely unbroken.
Stuyverant felt doubly despairing. He
had learned sufficient from the conference
with the Baron to realize that Princess Thir-
vinia was tremendously essential to the in
tegrity and future of Hertzegotha, and was
thoroughly convinced that, should she be
discovered and returned, after this, she
must soon complete her alliance with the
youthful Duke and completely withdraw
from his own existence.
Nevertheless, his fanatical desire to serve
her, to be, if possible the one particular
knight to reach her side and deliver her out
of whatsoever dangers might impend, in
creased upon him hourly. If the Fates de-
creed that his love must be forever hopeless,
it would not be thereby lessened. Come
what might, that day in the park had knitted
bond between them that nothing could
ever wholly sever.
A strange conviction that Thurley's doom
hung close and loose above her head had
haunted his thoughts since the very hour
when he learned of the way she had gone.
He had fretted with wild and increasing i'm
patience because of this conviction. He was
nearly beside himself, to be baff1ed, impo-
tently ignorant of what he ought to do.
This enforced inactivity and stupid waiting,
while a night went by, seemed enough to
drive him crazy. Of what avail was his
eager love when he made not the slightest
move?
Sitting an hourly repeated impulse to seek
the aid of the city's police, he could scarcely
wait, this Sunday morning, for the time ap
pointed to meet the Baron at his rooms.
When he came there at last the Baron was
no wiser concerning Thurley than at Alice's
the previous night. Two of his men were
still to report; he could only advise further
patience. Wenck was still away.
A T eleven o'clock his two men came, with
\ vital news, and were interviewed in
private. They had found Princess Thirvinia.
That royalty erratic young person was
lying dangerously i'll, unknown and unsus-
pected, at the home of some loyal, if humble
subjects of Herzegovina, living in unroman-
tic Weehawken. She was unaware of the